A general Quality Counts Presentation targeted at Adult Audiences

1. A Texas Curriculum
for
Livestock Education

2. Curriculum Focus
Quality AssuranceQuality Assurance
Character EducationCharacter Education

3. Objective 1
 Ensure all 4-H and
FFA livestock projects
meet all food quality
standards

4. Objective 2
 Enhance character
education for Texas
4-H and FFA Youth

5. Objective 3
 Promote a Positive
Image of Youth
Livestock Programs

6. How to Use the
Curriculum
 Multiple delivery curriculum
 Notebooks with Text Lessons
 Step by step or as needed
 Activity Based
 Handouts and Support
Materials
 Understanding the Concepts

7. Eight Core Concepts
Objective 1:
Quality Assurance
1. Impact of Livestock
Projects on Red Meat
Industry
2. Responsibilities of
Producing a Safe
Product
3. Medication
use/Reading and
Following Labels
4. Animal Care and Well-
Being
Objective 2:
Character
Education
1. Six Pillars of
Character
2. Purpose of 4-H/FFA
3. Purpose of Livestock
Projects
4. Making
Decisions/Goal Setting

8. Core Concept
Objective 1: Quality Assurance
Core Concept 1:Core Concept 1:
Impact of Livestock Projects
on Red Meat Industry

9.  Reveal impact of 76,000
market projects

10. Total Entry Numbers
Market Swine: 32,617
Meat Goats: 23,821
Market Lamb: 11,349
Market Steers: 8,438
TOTAL: 76,225

11. How many pounds of
carcass are there?
 Terms & Calculations: (1) Live
Weight, (2) Dressing Percent, and (3)
Carcass Weight

12. PORK
Ave Wt. – 240
D. P. - 73%
5,714,498.4 lb

13. Grand Total
Grand Total:
14,185,412.15
pounds of
carcass!!!!!!

14. What does this mean?
 Livestock projects can IMPACT
thousands of people!!!
 Think about the CONSUMER!!!!
 You never know who they might
be……..

15. Lesson
Understanding Food Safety

16. Identify potential hazards in meat products
and appropriate preventative measures
 What could potentially happen if a
person extremely allergic to penicillin
(or ibuprofen) ate meat with such a
residue?
 What would happen if a
consumer bit into a portion of
a broken needle?

17. Participation
Ch. 2, Lesson 2, Activity 3
Broken Needles

18. Core Concept
Objective 1: Quality Assurance
Core Concept 3:Core Concept 3:
Medication Use/Reading
and Following Labels

19. Lesson
Medication and Feed Labels

20. Exhibit knowledge of medication and feed
labels and their meaning
 Expiration date
 Lot number
 Dosage
 Warnings
 Cautions
Responsibility Caring
 Application
Method
 Precautions
 Active Ingredient
 Trade Name
Read the Labels!!!
From: NPPC; PQA
for Youth; 2000

21. More Activities:
 Reading a Medication Insert:Chapter
2
 Reading a Feed Tag: Chapter 3
 Medication Labels: Chapter 3

22. Core Concept
Objective 1: Quality Assurance
Core Concept 4:Core Concept 4:
Animal Care and Well-Being

23. Lesson
Administering Medicines

24. Knowledge of proper medication
administration
 Proper routes of administration
 Differences in routes of administration
 Differences between species
 ALWAYS avoid major meat cuts (loin, leg,
ham)!!!
Responsibility Caring
From: NPPC;
PQA for Youth;
2000
From: SDSU
Animal Science
website
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25. Activities:
 Livestock Injection Sites: Chapter 3
 Banana Injection: Chapter 3

26. Core Concept
Objective 2: Character Education
Core Concept 1:Core Concept 1:
Six Pillars of Character

27. Trustworthiness
#Be honest
#Don’t deceive, cheat or steal
#Be reliable
Do what you say you will do
#Have the courage to do the right thing
#Build a good reputation
#Be loyal
Stand by your family, friends and country

28. Respect
#Treat others with respect
Follow the Golden Rule
#Be tolerant to differences
#Use good manners, not bad language
#Be considerate of the feelings of others
#Don't threaten, hit or hurt anyone
#Deal peacefully with anger, insults and
disagreements

29. Responsibility
#Do what you are supposed to do
#Persevere: Keep trying!
#Always do your best
#Use self control: be disciplined
#Think before you act
Consider the consequences
#Be accountable for your choices

30. Fairness
#Play by the rules
#Take turns and share
#Be open minded
Listen to others
#Don't take advantage of others
#Don't blame others carelessly

31. Caring
#Be kind
#Be compassionate and show you care
#Express gratitude
#Forgive others
#Help people in need

32. Citizenship
#Do your share to make your school and
community better
#Cooperate
#Stay informed; vote
#Be a good neighbor
#Obey laws and rules
#Respect authority
#Protect the environment

33. Participation
 Applying the Six Pillars of
Character: Chapter 1, Lesson 5,
Activity 2

34. Activity
•Trustworthiness
•Respect
•Responsibility
•Fairness
•Caring
•Citizenship

35. Activity:
 Defining the Six Pillars of Character:
Chapter 1
 Applying the Six Pillars of Character to
Livestock Projects: Chapter 1

36. Core Concept
Objective 2: Character Education
Core Concept 4:Core Concept 4:
Decision Making
And
Goal Setting

37. Eight Core Concepts
Character Education
 Six Pillars of
Character
 Purpose of 4-H/FFA
 Purpose of
Livestock Projects
 Making
Decisions/Goal
Setting
Quality Assurance
 Impact of Livestock
Projects on Red Meat
Industry
 Responsibilities of
Producing a Safe
Product
 Medication use/Reading
and Following Labels
 Animal Care and Well-
Being

39. Quality Counts e-learning
• Each building represents a unit.
• The 5 units take the learner from the home
to the show.
– Project Purpose
– Food Safety
– Animal Facilities/Selection
– Daily Care
– Preparing for Show

40. Quality Counts e-learning
• Each unit includes
– Learning material
– Interactive activities
– Scored games
– Character building scored questions
– Thought provoking bonus questions
– Fun facts

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Project Purpose:
Why Should I Have a Livestock Project?
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44. Both 4-H and FFA were founded to
help youth develop:
• Leadership skills
• Life skills
• Social skills
• Emotional skills
• Physical skills
All the skills that lead to career
success!
Wow, they do a lot.
4-H and FFA are proud to sponsor Texas
youth livestock projects!

45. 4-H Mission
Prepare youth to meet the challenges of
childhood, adolescence and adulthood,
through a coordinated, long-term,
progressive series of educational
experiences that enhance life skills and
develop social, emotional, physical and
cognitive competencies.
Click the logo to learn more about 4-H,
or click Next to continue.
What
does it
mean?
I’m not
sure. Let’s
click the
logo.
4-H and FFA are proud to sponsor Texas
youth livestock projects!

46. 4-H Mission
Prepare youth to meet the challenges of
childhood, adolescence and adulthood,
through a coordinated, long-term,
progressive series of educational
experiences that enhance life skills and
develop social, emotional, physical and
cognitive competencies.
Click the logo to learn more about 4-H,
or click Next to continue.
What
does it
mean?
I’m not
sure. Let’s
click the
logo.
4-H and FFA are proud to sponsor Texas
youth livestock projects!
To make the best better, I pledge my head to
clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger service, and my health to
better living for my club, my community, my
country, and my world.
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The 4-H Pledge

48. Producers are consumers too. We all
expect the food we eat to be safe.
When you care about your fellow
consumers and understand the
responsibility of producing safe
products you become a better citizen.
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Food Safety

49. Following label instructions
Any of the products you give your
animal through feed, water or
injection may effect the meat from
your animal.
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Food Safety

50. The food supply continuum is the series of processes food products
move through on their way from the producer to the consumer.
Food Supply Continuum
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continuum to learn more.

51. The food supply continuum is the series of processes food products
move through on their way from the producer to the consumer.
Food Supply Continuum
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continuum to learn more.
Producer
A producer is the
person responsible
for raising a healthy
animal.
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52. The food supply continuum is the series of processes food products
move through on their way from the producer to the consumer.
Food Supply Continuum
Click on each segment of the
continuum to learn more.
Transportation
Transportation carries
the animal from the
farm to the market.
Livestock haulers play
an important role in
food safety and meat
quality by the way they
treat and handle the
animals.
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54. Keeping your animals comfortable reduces stress on them. This
helps to keep them healthy.
There are several ways to help keep your animals comfortable.
Select the livestock type that you own to learn more.
Animal Facilities
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55. Click Next to continue.
Roll over various pieces of equipment in the barn to see what they are used for.
Animal Facilities
Sheep need 20 sq. feet
of space per lamb.

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Roll over various pieces of equipment in the barn to see what they are used for.
Animal Facilities
When the outside temperature
rises above the level of sheep’
comfort zone, fans keep the sheep
cool.

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Roll over various pieces of equipment in the barn to see what they are used for.
Animal Facilities
Animals need clean bedding.
When the outside temperature
drops below the level of the sheep’s
comfort zone bedding such as
straw can keep sheep warm.
A dry bed acts as insulation for the
animal. This decreases the amount
of energy an animal needs to use to
keep warm.

58. Animal Facilities
Points
Your friend is raising an a livestock animal for show. You
notice that she never cleans out the animals pen. She also
does not clean out the water. All she does is make sure that
her animal has feed. You also notice that there are straw
bale strings in the pen.
What should you do?
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300

59. Click Next to continue.
Animal Facilities
Points
300
Choose one:
o You ignore it. It is not your animal anyway.
o You tell her that she should give her animal fresh water
everyday, that she needs to make sure that her pen is
clean and that she needs to pick up loose strings or halters
in the pen. You offer to help her so that she can learn how
to do it properly. You tell her that you will help her for a
week but after that she will need to do it.
o You clean the pen for her and water the animal for her.
You do not think she will do it anyway.
o You tell your friend that you are going to tell her leader and
parent’s on her. You are going to tell them that she does
not take proper care of her animal and should not be able
to have one.
Submit

60. Click Next to continue.
Animal Facilities
Choose one:
o You ignore it. It is not your animal anyway.
o You tell her that she should give her animal fresh water
everyday, that she needs to make sure that her pen is
clean and that she needs to pick up loose strings or halters
in the pen. You offer to help her so that she can learn how
to do it properly. You tell her that you will help her for a
week but after that she will need to do it.
o You clean the pen for her and water the animal for her.
You do not think she will do it anyway.
o You tell your friend that you are going to tell her leader and
parent’s on her. You are going to tell them that she does
not take proper care of her animal and should not be able
to have one.
The percentage of corn grown in
United States eaten by livestock
is 80%.
Did you know…
Animal Facilities:
FUN FACT
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61. The Future of the
Youth Livestock Show
Program Depends on
Us!

62. Thank You!