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Last week a 17yr old young man with a very Bright future took his own life do to bullying and depression. His family owned the local Christmas tree farm.    Friday night a 15yr old young man, also with a very bright future died from injuries he received when his 4-wheeler hit a coal truck on his...

Heres what you don't want to happen:               Last night (12-1-2010) one of my sons friends from the local high school killed himself do to the bullying that he got in school.  We have a no bullying policy, have had it for a year, I hope they through the kids that did this in Jail and...

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Turkey

I am cleaning out my barn and plan on building 2 pens in the corner for the 4-h Calves.  I would like to cement the stall floors but was wondering if that is a good idea?  I know for horses its bad and I would have to put rubber mats down, but what about for cows?  I can leave it dirt, but the...

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Bird

About 10 yrs ago at our little 4-h show, a steer got loose going to the wash rack, jumped the wash rack and took off up toward the horseshow ring.  A girl jumped on her horse and took off after it.  She was able to slide off her horse and catch it by the halter.  The owner came running up to it...

Texas Ranger

Slowly figuring this guy out.  Last night my daughter was finally able to lead him by herself and he didn't spook or try and get away. <party> <party>  We kinda tricked him and it worked, I took my sweatshirt and put it on her. He was obviously confused cause he kept sniffing me and then would...

This thing is gonna drive me nuts,  don't quite know what is going on.  I can do anything with this calf but when my 9 yr old (who will be showing him) comes within eye sight he bolts. I had to tie him up to my homemade walker last night and i held one lead and she another and got him to walk...

Good day yesterday.  Built a tie Bar in his stall and he stood tied for about 4 hours (ended up rushing son to hospital or wouldn't have been that long).  Then got a brainiac idea to put a teacher rod in the shed.  I tied a piece of old steel gas line to the rafter in the shed and left it hang...

Dealing with this problem right now.  This is how our school handles it: 1.  It is the victims responsibility to report it.  They want the victim to turn in an incident report to the school listing the location of the altercation and the date, time and a description of what happened.  They have...

Well I gave him a day off yesterday and I guess that was the wrong thing to do. Put him in the fitting chute and worked on him there for a while and he was a perfect gentleman, spent about 1/2 hour tied in the chute, got him out and tried to walk him and thats where the trouble started, he got...

Our fair isn't until July but I want this calf as calm as can be by then since my 9 yr old will be showing it.  Should I be putting him in the chute and clipping him now? and since we are blow and go type of fair what should we be clipping? I watched the fitting and showmanship video by the Jr...

Saw a huge 10 point in the trunk of a car yesterday.  Must have had a 22 or 23" spread and massive tines.  Till I stopped and parked, they had left so sorry no pictures.  Neighbor got a huge 11 point but other than that ain't seen anything.  Oh, my son missed a 10 point, Buck Fever I think (lol).

I would love to get to some larger shows, but I don't have the resources.  I don't think my husband would go for it either.  I would love to have my daughter do the Pennsylvania farm show sometime, but it would take the right calf and I would have to convince my dad to sell me another calf.  He...

My daughter is in her second yr of showing beef cattle at our local 4-h show.  I don't want to get into showing big time, just showing on the local level.  Well, we had a problem with our calf last night so I called another 4-h leader in our county, should have just come on here and asked, she...

I'm beginning to think his neck bothers him too.  I noticed last night when I tied him up he didn't want to go to the right, he was fighting the rope but wouldn't turn so his right side was against the wall, he kept the wall on his left.  I turned him out in the small pasture, about 2 acres with...

My daughter and I have been working with her steer and are having a little problem with him leading.  When I want him to turn to the right and try pushing him away to turn, he will drop his head to the left, rubbing his nose in the dirt and will sometimes even drop down on his knees.  Even if I...