East Sounding Creek Beef 4-H Club
By Coleman Norris
Breaking! Breaking!
Well we made it through the Miserable February weather without getting frostbite, although some of us that took our steers and heifers into the Beef Expo this year were mighty close. With a whooping -45 windchill throughout that weekend. If any of you braved the weather to come and watch, you would have seen all the hard work that has been put into our animals. They are looking fantastic and are leading like puppy dogs after the event.
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We all gathered together for our annual club speakoffs on Jan 29. There were a lot of nervous kids amongst us. Everyone did a terrific job. Moving on to the district level this year and coming out on top for the Juniors is Reid Foot with 1st and Jensyn Duque with 2nd. For the Intermediates is Ridge Foot for 1st and Quade Tye for 2nd. Last but not least our Seniors with Dylan Woods with 1st and Emma Westerlund with 2nd. District speakoffs were held in Youngstown this year, Our club was represented by Reid Foot Junior, Ridge Foot and Quade Tye Intermediate. These kids did a spectacular job with Reid Foot winning the Junior class and Ridge Foot coming in First and Quade Tye coming in 3rd. The Foot boys then moved on to the Regional Speakoffs which were held in Wainwright this year where there is some very stiff competition. The boys ended up doing a great job and should be very proud of themselves for making it this far.
Our club has been very busy fundraising. This year we have done a bottle drive, battery drive and did clean up on Esther, Sedalia and New Brigden dumps. With this fundraising this year our club is purchasing some brand new club shirts so we can all look spiffy for our show this year.
On April 22 we met at the Crossroads Centre for our annual Mock Achievement Day, We started out the morning with a Judging Clinic, and then moved on to working with the steers learning how to clip our steers and heifers, how to show our animal off in the show ring and then what to expect in the grooming chute on show day. We also had Jack Fischer come out to do a demonstration on how to properly put in growth implants into an ear. It was pretty cool cause we got to use real cow ears. It was a packed day of learning but it was a great day.
We gathered on May 12 to finish off our Carcass Project. Stay tuned next week as I will let you in, on the day and all the Winners.
Be on the lookout this week for our Sale catalogue where you can have a good preview of what will be for sale on June 7 in Hanna in the Arena. If you're interested or need more details please reach out to any 4h families. We will all be happy to help. If you can't make it to the sale, you can always join us online with DLMS.
So this is Coleman Norris signing off saying “do yourself a favour and put some beef on your plate”.