Apr. 17—The annual Northwest Alabama 4-H Pig Squeal show and auction is just around the corner on Saturday, April 22. Twenty-eight students will show their finest hogs and auction them off at the ...
Our slogan at 4-H is “Learn by Doing.” The 4-H Pig Squeal Project gives young people the opportunity to do just that. In January, each student receives two feeder hogs they care for through April.
HANCOCK COUNTY — The coat on the big, beautiful, red-haired pig was shiny thanks to a fresh gloss of oil. The pig’s name — Sexy Red, who is named after a rapper called Sexyy Red — was ready to get out ...
Pig races were new to the midway this year at the Hancock County 4-H Fair. Small pigs raced against each other in an obstacle course for the grand prize of an Oreo cookie. HANCOCK COUNTY — With the ...
For many youths, it’s not their first experiences raising a 60-pound shoat, a young, weaned pig. The hog breeds used for the 4-H project are Duroc, a reddish-brown hog with a large muscular frame and ...
Given the large number of exhibitors, Bo Perez is not likely to show the grand champion swine today at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. But with the help of his pigs this year, the Penn Manor ...
MT. VERNON — Eleven-year-old Isabella Hansen is finding her pig-raising groove. The Dayville 4-H Community Club member is raising her very first swine for the upcoming Grant County Fair after a couple ...
Anxious 4-H members waited with their pigs - some spotted, some pink, others fat and a few muscled - on Tuesday afternoon before the market swine competition. In a market swine competition pigs are ...
Providing sought-after genetics to those in the industry, a farm near Bath concentrates on selling show pigs and swine breeding stock to 4-Hers and FFA plus breeders throughout the United States. Jeff ...
A family welcomed a smart and sweet pig into their lives as a pet and as a 4-H project, according to an upstate New York animal shelter. Screenshot of the SPCA Serving Erie County, NY's Facebook post ...