A tool to help you practice for the North Carolina state-level 4-H Poultry Judging Event to be held on July 18th is to print and laminate the scorecards* below for each of the classes and use again and again with dry erase markers**.
- Past production hens without reasons (pdf)
- Past production hens with reasons (pdf)
- Past production hens reasons card (pdf)
- Standards for grading placings (with no cuts – from old 4-H poultry judging manual) (pdf)
- RTC grading – broilers (pdf)
- RTC grading – roasters (pdf)
- RTC parts identification (pdf) (Kentucky has them identify parts before grading parts)
- RTC parts grading (pdf)
- RTC further processed product evaluation (pdf) (Kentucky uses this card, but the national contest has them check yes or no for each criterion)
- Market eggs – candling class 1 (pdf)
- Market eggs – candling class 2 (pdf)
- Market eggs – exterior eggs class 1 (pdf)
- Market eggs – exterior eggs class 2 (pdf)
- Market eggs – broken-out eggs (Kentucky does 20 eggs while the national contest only has 10 broken-out eggs) (pdf)
Want to learn more about 4-H Poultry Judging? Check out go.ncsu.edu/poultryjudging. Registration will open soon on 4-H Online and will be due June 18, 2023.
