Colorado 4-H Project E-Record Selector
4-H Livestock Projects - Horse
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4-H Horse Projects
These projects are designed to provide you an opportunity to handle, care for and ride horses. 4-H members may own or lease the horse used in these projects. If two members of the family use the same horse, it must be on an equal basis. The member must have complete access to the horse at any time and must provide full care and management a majority of the time, whether the horse is owned or leased.
Counties may have additional ownership rules so check with your local Colorado State University Extension county office.
Horse Project
This project is for member’s ages 8-18 years old. This project is designed for members who have little to no experience. Members will accomplish the following learning experiences:
- Learn about horse behaviors
- Identify parts of the horse
- Learn about the breeds of horses
- How to select a horse
- Learn about grooming
- Learn about saddling and bridling
- Learn about safety and equipment
- Learn about horsemanship
- Learn how to judge horses and give oral reasons
- How to detect unsoundness in horses
- Learn about tack
- How about training and showing
- Learn about trail riding and riding skills
- How to determine a horses age
- How to read a feeding tag
- How to do body condition scoring
- Identifying and treating equine diseases
- Reproduction
- Horsemanship
- Organizing a horse show
- Horse psychology
- Exploring horse careers
Step 4:
The items listed below are your project requirements. Select each in turn to access a Word Document. Once you have your document, please save it to your hard drive or other media before entering information.
- Colorado 4-H Livestock Project Tip Sheet [ coming soon ]
- Livestock Horse E-Records
(For additional pages of the E-Record, click here to access the Master E-Record page and look at the "single pages".) - 4-H User Guide for Livestock/Horse e-Records
- 4-H Horse Manual - order from Extension office
- 4-H Horse Rule Book - order from Extension office
Completion of Project:
- Completed Livestock/Horse E-Record
- Completed Horse Level
Additional Information:
Coming Soon:
- Youth Equine Website
- Colorado 4-H Livestock/Horse Judging Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Livestock/Horse Judging Fact Sheet
- Colorado 4-H Horse Rule Book
- Colorado 4-H Horse Level Testing
- Colorado 4-H Livestock Primary Care Guidelines
- Colorado 4-H Horse Judging
