4-h mom
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- May 17, 2010
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this is more of an opinion then anything.....my daughter was finally seriously hurt after 2 months of trying to break her steer...after spending her hard earned money on a calf from a very popular breeder(that shall remain nameless) shes finally given up. there's no way she can replace him at this point. We are not the kind of family that can pay thousands of dollars for a calf and then turn around and drop thousands more just because the first isnt going to come around. (hes just downright mean.) Now we are not the kind of family that is new to showing , we are 4-h and ffa alumni, my kids have grown up showing ,mother, father , aunts, etc. We have always loved what 4-H and FFA is all about. the knowledge , responsibility ,family , everything. Well not so much anymore. What its become to mean is one thing Money. How much you can make off someone. Ive seen in it in hog, goats, lamb, everything. How much money can you make off these kids seem to be the new norm. Is this what the programs have become?Is this what we are teaching are showkids? maybe im guilty of the same thing. I took my daughter thousands of miles, had her animal shipped here to just to watch her hopes get dashed every day for 2 months. Now she is done i think . As her family we have tried to keep her hopes up, but after this last incident i cannot ask her to keep trying. She(and i don't blame her) has lost all confidence in the industry, not to mention what we think of the breeder for the sale of this calf to her. How in good conscience do you sell a calf like that to a young person? well ive always taught my kids buyer beware, i guess that goes in all industries. Well so long from this family , i do believe our showing days are over.