Youth for the Quality Care of Animals (Quality Assurance)
**Please bring in, email, scan, fax, or mail a copy of your Quality Assurance certificate, that you recieve from the new YQCA website, to the Saunders County Extension Office!
We are excited to announce that the new Quality Assurance Curriculum called Youth for the Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) is now active. Those needing to complete the YQCA course will visit https://yqcaprogram.org/.
What is Quality Assurance?
- The Nebraska 4-H Program and the Saunders County 4-H Program has mandated the Quality Assurance Certification for 4-H members exhibiting BEEF, DAIRY CATTLE, GOATS (Dairy & Meat), HOGS, POULTRY, RABBITS and SHEEP at the Saunders County Fair, Fremont 4-H Fair, Nebraska State Fair and AKSARBEN 4-H Stock Show.
- Exhibitors are REQUIRED to be Quality Assurance Certified through online certification or testing no later than JUNE 15th.
- Exhibitors must be certified BEFORE the show season or they will NOT be allowed to exhibit their livestock at this year’s shows; Saunders County Fair, Fremont 4-H Expo, and Nebraska State Fair.
- GENERAL OVERVIEW: https://4h.unl.edu/yqca
The following are the YQCA Certification Requirements for 4-H/FFA animal project members/students based on their age on December 31st.
Junior (8 – 11 years old on December 31st)
- Complete On-line Modules
Intermediate (12 – 14 years old on December 31st)
- Complete On-line Modules
Senior (15 – 18 years old on December 31st)
- Complete On-line Modules