UGA Cooperative Extension

Toombs County Extension Office:
4-H Youth Development - Poultry Judging

Toombs County Hosts 2011 Area Poultry Judging Event - Flys Away with Third Place

The Toombs Agri-center was the host location for the 2011 Southeast Poultry Judging contest held Thursday, April 14, 2011.  Teams from across Southeast Georgia attended the event.  Toombs County was represented by a Junior and Senior team. 

Team members prepared for the event by attending classes and workshops on egg production, meat quality, exterior egg quality, broken-out egg quality, and poultry parts identification.

At the competition, all contestants judged two classes of live birds for egg production and gave oral reasons for their selections in one class.  In addition, they judged carcasses for meat quality, candled eggs to determine freshness and grade, and judged eggs for exterior and broken-out quality.    

Junior team members included Daisy Aspinwall, Katlyn Collins, Katie Denmark, Shelby Harville, Lili Hester, Courtney Johnson, Haleigh Kersey, Erin Ricks, Hannah Roberts, Van Sikes, Trenton Stephens and Riley Wimberly.

Senior team members were: Brittany Garcia, Meghan Hadley, Kayla Jackson, McKinsey McCoy and Kayla Webb.

The contest was coordinated in collaboration with the Georgia 4-H State Office, the University of Georgia Poultry Science Department and the Toombs County Extension Office.

2010 Poultry Judging

Front row: Olivia Griffis, Jacob Stallings and Kayla Webb. Back row: Katlyn Collins, Carley McCoy, Lance Joyner, McKinsey McCoy, Brittany Garcia, Alex Dismuke, Risa Childs and Mikayla Harden.

2008 Poultry Judging

Junior team members were Alex Dismuke, Brittany Garcia and Meghan Hadley (front row).  Senior team members were Dale Barnard, Risa Childs, McKinsey McCoy and Joni Poole (back row).  The team was coached by Toombs County 4-H Coordinator Cheryl Poppell and Toombs County 4-H Program Assistant Lesli Garrett.  Volunteer Leader Chris Earls assisted with practice and accompanied the group to the competition.

The junior team, which was comprised of members who were in their first year of competition, placed third behind Appling and Camden Counties.  Alex Dismuke was the 10th high individual.  The senior team also placed third behind Ware and Charlton Counties respectively.  Joni Poole was named as the 6th high individual and Risa Childs was the 8th place individual in this year’s contest.