MSU Extension Montcalm County

We try to keep several resources available for 4-H youth and families, Club Leaders, and Volunteers available through the MSU Extension office.

Some of the resources available are:

• Learning Lab Kits that can be checked out (Rabbit, Poultry, Goat, Horse, Swine, Dog, Sheep, Beef, & Dairy 
• Books
• Bulletins
• Other Educational Materials

Youth Livestock Committee meeting - Educational Workshop Videos:

Carcass Evaluation

Below are some link to some materials that you may find resourceful:

• Financial Manual for 4-H Volunteers
• Financial Manual for 4-H Treasurers
• 4-H Guiding Principles
• National Events
• Animal Science Events Calendar
• Meat Marketing and Processing Information
• Youth Guide on Animal Welfare
• Guide to ID Meat Cuts
• Your 4-H Market Beef Project
• Your 4-H Market Swine Project
• Successfully Navigating 4-H Market Livestock Projects
• 10 Tips for Marketing your 4-H Project
• Anatomy of a Good Buyers Letter
• A Guide to Writing Better Buyers letters
• Marketing Guide
• The Business Handshake
• 7 Steps to a Great Thank You Note
• Promo list of 4-H Pre-College
• 4-H Pledge/Motto flyer
• 4-H Animal Science Anywhere
• Teaching Science When You Don't Know Diddly Squat Series
• Heads In, Hearts In: Staff guide
• Discover 4-H
• Keeping Kids Safe: Ages 0-5
• Keeping Kids Safe: Ages 6-11
• Keeping Kids Safe: Ages 12-17
• Keeping Kids SAFE: The downside to "sharenting" on social media
• Horse provides an interactive, hands-on curriculum for youth to explore raising and showing horses while developing life skills.
• Beef engages youth in activities to identify breeds, locate parts,  raise a healthy animal, fit and show steers, and select and judge beef.
• University of Tennessee provides a list of resources by 4-H interest.  There is a plethora of information on this page!
• Livestock E-Quiz is a website to help youth learn more about beef, dairy, horses, poultry, sheep, and forages.
• Working Dog Web is a fun and informative website, with games, information and color pages.

• National WHEP manual

Kids Gardening/Art Resources

• Container Gardening
• Creating with Chocolate
• Decomposition Nature Walk
• Friendship Fort
• Fun with Fungi
• Garden Suncatchers
• Herb Spiral Garden
• Homemade Paper Valentines Hearts
• Leaf and Flower Prints
• Pollinator Celebration Meal
• Save Your Seeds Activity
• Seed Balls

Here is a video that can be watched at anytime as a resource training. Please click on this link to view the video.

If you are looking for specific resources or have questions about any resources that we might have or that you would like to see made available, please contact the MSU Extension office at 989-831-7500.