4H has groups all over the US teaching kids life skills, leadership, citizenship. Leaders find kids interested in anything from sewing projects to showing dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, cows, beef, etc. an teach them how to care for the animal and show them usually in a county fair setting. Winners go to the state fair with the exhibit. As with some projects that are grown for their meat, buyers come on the last day of the fair and purchase the animal: meaning the child doesn't take that animal home with them. It's especially popular in the agricultural communities in learning how difficult it is to grow and maintain healthy livestock if you've chosen that as a possible way to earn a living. Their motto is:
"I pledge my
head to clearer thinking,
my
heart to greater loyalty,
my
hands to larger service
and my
health to better living,
for my club, my community, my country, and my world." (The logo is a 4 leaf clover with 4 H's in it)
Anyway, we have many clubs that exhibit rabbits around here that are up to their necks in poo!