Awesome 4H Trip

[Northern Rancher]

Just got home from a tour with the 4H club-we started out first thing this A'M at the Mannville Hutteritte Colony wrere the first tour they've ever taken through their colony-everybody had a great time-our guide Andrew could do stand up he's one funny guy. What I found interesting was how they mix skills that are centuries old with some of the most state of the art stuff. I think what impressed me most though was the health of the dairy calves and their band of 500 Rambouillet ewes. I bought a pair of leather gloves too that look like they'll last a bit. We ate the noon day meal with everybody and I'd be even fatter if I hung around there much. We then carried on to Highland Feeders and Theresa Larre took us a good tour-the good weather has things looking good on the 26,000 cattle they have in now-16,000 fresh calves. Got the urge to put cattle on feed again lol.

 

[Northern Rancher]

Waterslidin'

Stout Pony

Good strong ewes

Guard Dogs

When in Veg you see the Egg

Cattle fed in the no hormone-no antiobiotics program at Highland

Nice Shorthorn steer for Randilianna

Pretty feedlot horse

Our tour guide

The bus winfdows were dirty not sure how the Highland pics will look.

 

[Northern Rancher]

The whole crew

 

[Shortgrass]

What a great trip. The kids, had fun, will remember that and got some food for thought in the process.

 

[Northern Rancher]

THey had some good ideas in the calving setup if you early calve-the door into the barn could be run by a remote so you could open it up from the alley-you wouldn't cool the barn up while you brought a cow in. Every gate in the holding pens was designed to swing to the side to pin a cow to get calves sucking etc.

 

[Soapweed]

Looks like a good time was had by all, with fun and education all thrown in together. Great way to spend the day.

 

[Faster horses]

Wow, that's a bunch of kids. Good thing you went along to chaperone. :wink:

Thanks for sharing~very interesting.

 

[randiliana]

Great tour!! Looks like you had a lot of fun and the kids learned stuff too.

 

[Northern Rancher]

Did you like the roan steer-there was one real good pen of Saler steers there I quite liked.

 

[randiliana]

Did you like the roan steer-there was one real good pen of Saler steers there I quite liked.

He is a good looking steer. Love the roans anyways.

Saw some Shorthorn x Saler bred heifers in the Producer the other day, wonder what they would be like....

 

[Northern Rancher]

The good ones in both breeds are tough to beat.