Oregon State Extension Resources

• Keeping Your 4-H Market Animals Healthy
  • An OSU 4-H publication written in partnership with DVMs, Extension Ag and 4-H professionals to help prepare 4-H youth to raise quality and healthy project animals. This resource was updated in 2024 and includes disease and nutrition information.
• Judging Swine and Oral Reasons
  • A Pacific Northwest publication to help 4-H youth understand the parts of a pig and judging basics including oral reasons terms and worksheet.
• OSU Extension 4-H Livestock Project Resources
  • This webpage includes helpful information for swine projects including videos on how to select and feed market hogs.
• OSU Extension Small Farms Resource
  • The latest research publications including care and feeding, nutritional and feeding, and meat resources that can help inform and support youth raising pigs.

Other Extension & 4-H Resources

• Iowa State Animal U
  • A comprehensive website with a variety of videos for beginners to advanced levels including how to prepare your pig for shows. Click on the different levels and cards that appear to learn more.
• NC State Swine 4-H
  • A swine showmanship guide that can help prepare 4-H youth to compete in showmanship.
• Cornell 4-H Pork Production Manual
  • A publication that includes different swine breeds, body conformation, nutrition, and genetic terminology for breeding programs.
• North Dakota 4-H Swine Showmanship
  • A video published in 2020 that addresses showmanship preparation topics like how to train your pig and groom them for shows.
• OK State Breeds of Swine
  • A comprehensive website of swine breeds that includes breed of origin and breed purpose.
• Hogs, Pigs, and Pork
  • A comprehensive website that contains swine biology, breeding, diseases, and management practices topics. Most of the publications were published in 2019.

Advancements

• 4-H Market Animal Advancement
  • Use this form to help 4-H youth raising a swine market animal to document their progress.

Project Records

All 4-H members participating at fair are required to submit one project record. Swine 4-H youth are encouraged to use either the Animal Science project or Swine Market Feed and Growth Project Record or Production Record (if exhibiting a breeding project) below.

Please note, the Washington County Livestock Auction organization may require additional documents, like the Market Hog Health Record, to participate in the fair auction.

Animal Science Project Records

• Animal Science Project Record for Juniors
• Animal Science Project Record for Intermediates and Seniors
  • These project records are due with your fair entry forms

Swine Market Animal Project Records

• Daily Feed and Growth
  • Use this worksheet to help calculate total amount fed and fed cost for the Feed and Growth project record.
• Feed and Growth
  • Number 1-13 should be completed if this project record is being submitted at fair time.
    • This project record is due at fair weigh-in.
• Market Hog Health Record

Swine Breeding Project Records

• Sow Production Record