Redwood City Cañada 4-H Club

The Sheep project is specifically designed to assist members in learning how to care for a lamb.  Members learn what to look for when choosing a lamb.  After a lamb is chosen, purchased and brought back to the farm, members learn how to care for the lamb with regards to what to feed it, how much, how to exercise their animal, how to shear the coat, and how to best present their lamb to a potential buyer.  Members also learn body parts and health.  The project culminates in the members taking their lambs to the San Mateo County Fair in June.  Once there, members participate in showmanship before a judge.  Members also participate in the Fair Auction to auction off their animal.  Members get to see the full circle of choosing, raising, showing and auctioning their lamb.