Youth Market Turkey Show
About the Youth Market Turkey Show
Holiday Donation Turkeys to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Give a Youth Market Turkey Show bird that Gives Back!
To order a youth raised bird, please go to Papa Spud’s, a farm to fork delivery service, webpage.
2020 Youth Market Turkey Show T-shirt Design Contest
Calling all artists and/or poultry enthusiasts! Submit the winning T-shirt design for the 2020 Youth Market Turkey Show T-shirt and win a free registration and T-shirt to the 2020 Youth Market Turkey Show. Submit your designs to Mary Fosnaught, Poultry Youth Programs, at mhfosnau@ncsu.edu. A sketch or handwritten design is acceptable. Looking for designs that promote youth, turkeys, North Carolina, or state fair. Preference will be given for designs that can incorporate all contestant’s last names.
New Youth Market Turkey Show Youth Ambassador Program
The 2020 Youth Market Turkey Show will be launching a Youth Ambassador program. This volunteer opportunity will be for one high school student each year and is designed for the youth to expand poultry science awareness, to develop outreach and networking skills, and to assist with creating more dynamic and engaging youth programming. The program will follow a calendar year from January – December taking the youth from start to finish of the yearly Y.M.T.S. program. The youth will have monthly zoom meetings with the poultry youth faculty mentor and will assist with major events of the program including registration, T-shirt development, poult pickup, show weigh in, and Youth Market Turkey Show at the state fair. Written nominations for the next year’s Youth Market Turkey Show Youth Ambassador can be sent to Mary Fosnaught at mhfosnau@ncsu.edu during November and December of the year prior to the next Ambassador program calendar year.
Congratulations to our First Youth Market Turkey Show Ambassador
Our first Youth Market Turkey Show Ambassador for 2020 will be Maggie Blevins. Maggie Blevins is a Junior from Davidson County.
Drop Off/Weigh In – October 14, 2020, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Each participant’s hen can be dropped off at the Poultry Tent anytime between 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on October 14, 2020. Drive into the fairgrounds through Gate 4 on Youth Center Drive to drop off all livestock.
Once in the Poultry Tent, birds will be weighed, numbered with a leg band and put in their cage. Each participant will receive an entry ticket and parking pass to be used on Friday, the day of the turkey show when the fair will be open.
T-shirts will be available to purchase on Wednesday and Friday.
Turkey Show – October 16, 2020, 8 a.m.
The 2020 Youth Market Turkey Show is on Friday, October 16, 2020. The show starts at 8 a.m.
Registration
Registration is now CLOSED. Registration is full. Please email Mary Fosnaught to help us track interest for future programs.
Fees
To submit payment for registration, please mail a check to:
NC State University
ATTN: Chelsey Coleman/YMTS
Campus Box 7608
Raleigh, NC 27695.
The name of the youth to be registered needs to be included with the check. Registration is $15/youth. A group check from a county office is acceptable if all registrants’ names are included.
Turkey Show Information
Poult Pick-Up
Poult Pick-up for the 2020 Youth Market Turkey Show will be June 26 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Pick up poults at the NC State Animal and Poultry Teaching Unit at 3841 Inwood Road (off of Lake Wheeler Road) in Raleigh, NC 27603.
If you are a parent bringing your child to Poult Pick-up, please bring your child’s Social Security Number (SSN), full legal name and address to Poult Pick-up. This year, Cheryl Jenkins and Carol Grant, N.C. State Fair personnel, will be at Poult Pick-up to collect this information, which is required in order for the state to issue a check for prize monies.
If you do not want to provide your child’s SSN, you may sign a form agreeing that you are opting to not receive prize monies.
University policy prohibits employees from handling SSNs. If you are an agent picking up poults for youth, those participants will need to have their parents call Cheryl Jenkins (919.839.4522) or Carol Grant (919.839.4531) at the N.C. State Fair office between July 1 and September 15, 2019 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and provide the SSN of their child and verify their full legal name and address.
Courtesy of the NC State University Feed Mill Education Unit, each participant will receive 5 lbs. of feed to get the birds off to a good start.
Please bring a cardboard box with you for transporting poults.
Poult Pick-Up Questions
To help make the poult pick-up process easy, see our Q&A:
QUESTION: Is this where we normally pick up poults?
Turkey Show Location
The Youth Market Turkey Show is in the Poultry Tent next to Gate 2 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
View the map and download or print a copy.
Turkey Judging
Participants are evaluated on the overall weight of their turkeys, the muscling in the breast and legs and how well each participant has taken care of their bird.
See how turkeys get judged with this video (1:54) featuring Dr. Carm Parkhurst.
Resources
Feeding
Game Bird Guidelines
Southern States Feed Guidelines
Aviagen Turkeys Feeding Recommendations for Commercial Stock
Raising
Raising Turkeys
University of New Hampshire
Acknowledgements
A special thanks to the Prestage Department of Poultry Science at NC State University for making this event possible.
Thank you to Prestage Farms and Butterball for providing poults for each participant.
For additional information contact
Dr. Mary Fosnaught
4-H & Youth Development Extension Associate
NC State Extension
Prestage Department of Poultry Science
Raleigh, NC 27695-7608
E-mail: mhfosnau@ncsu.edu
Phone: +1 919.515.5529