Knowledge and Skills Checklist
Project Requirements
Your breeding swine project has three major parts.
1. Breeding and farrowing one or more sows or gilts each year.
2. Completing activities and learning skills needed to complete the breeding swine
project. You should complete three swine knowledge skills, and three life skill
activities each year. Choose the six activities from either the lists of additional
activities in this book or from the “4-H Skills for Life” series. You may do more than
six activities if you want to.
3. Keeping records. The records you should keep are:
• For the first two or three years of a 4-Her’s swine project career (either market or
breeding project), members should keep a 4-H Animal Project Record for Beginning
Members. Start a new one each year. Older and more experienced 4-H’ers should
keep a 4-H Livestock Record for Intermediate and Advanced Projects instead.
• The Knowledge and Skills Checklist. This can be found in your reference guide.
• A record of your entire 4-H career. Your leader may ask you for this information if
you want to be considered for some 4-H awards.