Each day there is something happening down at the Ag area with most of the activities involving general animal husbandry of the show animals; like cleaning yards & filling up feeders.
Not only do the Show teams work with the animals, but students in the Ag practical classes get to wash and dry, halter and lead the animals in preparation for the shows. The more exposure each animal gets to these practices the more settled and experienced they become and more professional the outcome at the shows that we enter.
Other exciting “things” happening around Unity Ag include:
- All the gardens beds have been harvested and the produce distributed
- During Grandparents Day we held an Ag Produce Stall which was very popular. We sold citrus, carrots, beetroot, pumpkins, succulents and Chubby Chicken Grain. All the proceeds will contribute to Ag resources and structures within the Ag area of the college.
- The Year 5 Ag classes have finished their “Cow Create Careers” assessment pieces and they are on display in the JS Ag classroom and also have been entered in the National Competition.
In other news… our show pullets have just started laying! This is the first year that Unity will be entering Isa browns into the School Laying Competition at the Adelaide Show. All schools participating receive chickens from the same hatching and at the same time. So now it is up to us to give them good nutrition, clean water and housing to raise them up to be strong and healthy with incredible eggs.
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