Most of us are used to being in school and receiving a grade for our hard work. Well did you know chickens also get a grade for the hard work of growing? Maybe not just growing, it's that and a little more. More than 80 youth from three counties travelled to the Robeson Regional Agricultural fair on Thursday to see what it takes to judge poultry as they competed in our annual 4-H Poultry judging competition. Contestants compete as individuals and on teams for this contest. They must do their best to judge, live laying hens, give oral reasons as to why they placed the hens in the order they did, name various cut up chicken parts, grade eggs that are out of the shell, egg candling, and grade the overall chicken carcass. We split the youth into two age divisions, junior (ages 9-13) and Senior (ages 14-19).
After all the scores were tabulated the winners list looked something like this. Junior Individual competition Alex Evans took home the first place trophy and Benjamin Herndon took home second place. There were no junior division teams competing this year.In the senior individual division Tre Lowry with Purnell Swett High School took home third place, while team mate Dustin Ramsay of Purnell Swett High School took home second. Taking home first place was Dustin Nance of Lumberton Senior High 
School. In the team division the scoring was even closer, and this year all three winning teams were from Lumberton Senior High School. In third place was team nine made up of Astrid Bastista and Amber Wortham. In second place was team 8 comprised of Katy Patterson and Natasha Bryant. Taking home the first place trophy was team one made of up individual winner Dustin Nance and Norman Deese.
School. In the team division the scoring was even closer, and this year all three winning teams were from Lumberton Senior High School. In third place was team nine made up of Astrid Bastista and Amber Wortham. In second place was team 8 comprised of Katy Patterson and Natasha Bryant. Taking home the first place trophy was team one made of up individual winner Dustin Nance and Norman Deese.All in all we had four teams from St. Pauls High School FFA competing, one from Red Springs High School FFA, 11 teams from Lumberton Senior High School FFA, seven teams from Purnell Swett High School FFA, a home school 4-H club from Bladen County, and individuals from Cumberland, Bladen and Robeson Counties.
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