July 2008
This year, the Victorian Region of the
Australian Red Poll Cattle Breeders Inc. is pooling it's resources to assist
with the Stud Beef Victoria's Cattle Handlers Camp. It will be held on July
8-11, 2008 at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds. It is open to people aged 8
years of age and over.
The program being arranged should prove
interesting and beneficial to all who attend. In the past, up to 70
participants have attended - there are separate groups for different age
groups.
For more information contact ARPCBI publicity
officer, Nell Staff on (03) 5786 5251, or Allen & Lizette Snaith (03) 5787
1560, or Carol Mazurek, Handlers Camp Administrator (03) 9281 7407.
6th National Red Poll Youth Cattle
Camp - Glen Innes NSW
Glen Innes Showgrounds
October 2008
Open to people aged 8 years to 25 years who are interested in handling, showing
and learning about cattle and the Beef industry.
Catering for novice and experienced handlers,
the weekend will cover a range of interesting "hands on" activities, along with
relevant cattle industry tutorials.
Experienced cattle breeders and handlers will
staff the camp.
Parents are welcome to visit the venue at any
time during the camp.
4th National Red Poll Youth Cattle
Camp - Tumbarumba NSW
Laurel Hill Forest Lodge
What a weekend, well above
expectations, organized it over last 12 months and it ran like clock work.
And it was successful, 20 students from
Queensland to Victoria and 20 head of cattle from the Red Phoenix Red Poll stud
all eager to learn.
The group was broken up into two the 15
year to 25 year olds looking to obtain a Statement of Attainment in RURAL
PRODUCTION STUDIES. This was developed and presented by Mr. Richard Said of
TAFE N.S.W Wagga Wagga.
The juniors under the leadership of
Kate Goulding from Dunoon started off with the basics of cattle handling.
Friday 11/11/05
The day started at 7.00am with each
student being allocated an animal for the weekend and leading of the cattle to
water, with others cleaning the bedding and preparing the feed. Then it was
time to feed our self's breakfast.
For the senior group it was carry out
Workplace OH&S Procedures which included Hazards in the work place, Common
Hazards for Cattle, Hazards for people, the responsibilities of employers and
employees.
The junior group started off with
leading and washing the cattle. For many it was the first time for both the
cattle an the handler. In hind sight it was fantastic to see those first few
nervous minutes for handler and beast to at the Paraders comp on Sunday, the
confidence built between student and animal.
Just before lunch Rauri Carolin from
Berry gave an informative description on the history of beef cattle.
The afternoon brought both groups
together with Ian Coghlan taking the lead. Ian's talk was the Selection of
animals to preparation of animal's for both breeding and showing.
After dinner we all came together to
learn Knot tying and halter making lead by Mike Bassula. This was a noise and
fun affair with every body having a good laugh at each others mistakes. But we
all walked out proudly with a lead rope made.
Saturday 12/11/05
Early started again with the mucking
out watering and feeding of the cattle, our confidence must be improving we did
it15 minutes quicker today.
The morning session for seniors was
again lead by Mr. Richard Said this time the modules were Plan to exhibit
livestock and Handle livestock Techniques. This was a real hands on program.
This is what we had been waiting for.
For the juniors it was blowing and
grooming and for most a first time chance to use clippers.
The pre lunch talk was delivered by our
N.S.W. President Mr. Doug Smith
You, Cattle and The Law
A lively session with Doug being
quizzed by the interested audience with many questions
The Afternoon saw the senior group
split in two with halve going with Annette Walker to learn the finer arts of
leading and parading and the other halve going with Albert Hancock for animal
husbandry techniques Such as putting a nose ring (a task also accomplished by
two of our students Beth Scot and Lorrae Sturgess) and drafting About halve way
through the session we swapped over.
Our afternoon talk was presented by
Debra Charlton our NSW Framers rep who gave an informative talk on what NSW
farmers could do for young farmers in our community, one of which was how they
were very close to releasing a package on interest rate relief for first farm
buyers.
Our evening session again halter making
this time we came out with a completed rope halter.
Sunday 13/11/05
The Big day
The morning session wash prepare the
cattle and you're self for a Paraders competition
10.30 am
the first of three parades
Our Judges were Annette Walker for the
junior group And Jeff Ryan from Duri nsw judged our senior groups
The juniors parading champion was
Chikera Ryan from Inverall And Gabriella Kompos from Wagga Wagga came in a
close second
The Intermediate group winner was Beth
Scott from Wonthaggi And second was Lorrae Sturgess from Tumut
The senior group was won Victor Clifton
from Corowa
With Tom Groat of Griffith a close
second.
Two other awards were presented
They were an encouragement award
presented to Gabriella Kompos from Wagga Wagga.
And a most improved a ward to Tiffany
Turner also from Wagga .
A special thank you to all those who
came forward and helped with either their skills and experience with cattle and
the preparation before the camp.
These people were Trevor Hill, Annette
Walker,Rauri Carolin,Doug Smith ,Micheal Smith,Ian Coghlan,Jeff Ryan.Kate
Goulding,Albert Hancock,David Talbot,David Whiley,Richard Said,Debra
Charlton,Mike& June Bassula.
Well done to all.
2004 Youth Cattle Camp - Glen Innes
Hosted by Queensland Region
Seventeen keen young people arrived at the 2004 Red Poll Youth Camp held at
Glen Innes hosted by Queensland Region. Over the course of the weekend, the
attendees covered a wide range of topics such as clipping, parading, fat
scanning, judging techniques and loads more.
As well as a fun games night which included a "golden oldies" team! The
organisers of the Camp hoped that the weekend would give the young people
plenty of chances to hands-on learning. All of the participants received a camp
shirt designed by Qld Region youth member Rachael Hancock.
Our first afternoon included participants being allocated an animal, which they
were responsible, for the weekend. Everyone had some time to get to know their
animal, tie them up safely, and lead them. The first of our guest speakers -
Pam Wilson came along and gave everyone an insight into dung beetles. We learnt
about different types and their habits, and why they make a difference.
Everyone received a dung beetle pen and one lucky person won a dung beetle
t-shirt in the quiz!
Our second day saw everyone out washing their animals, ready to have a go with
blowers and clippers. Another guest speaker Rodger Evans and his wife Naomi,
gave a demonstration on clipping, using clipping to best present your animal.
Next Alistair Rayner gave a talk of National Livestock Identification Scheme
(NLIS). NLIS tags and rumen boluses were passed around to look at and Alistair
spoke on why this system has been brought in and how it works. He also spoke
briefly on judging cattle and what terms to use, his main message being to keep
terms simple and only use terms that you understand.
Rodger and Naomi then gave a demonstration on fat and eye-muscle scanning. This
showed everyone how much human judgment varies.
Colin Rex came along next and gave us a talk on Breedplan, which helped us to
understand how and why breedplan is used.
Everyone then broke up into three groups with one group practising
their parading skills with Annette Walker, another group having a go at
clipping with Colin's help, and the third group learning about packing a show
box and halter cleaning with some of the Qld Members. Each group swapped around
and had a go at each.
The final day, Sunday, had everyone busily preparing their cattle for Junior
Paraders. First up though, Colin gave a talk on animal selection and judging.
Everyone then had a go at judging with four young bulls being paraded out
in front of the young Judges. All of the seventeen competitors then had
the chance to tell the growing crowd why they placed the animals the way they
did.
1st place going to Rachael Hancock
2nd to Catherine McCowen
3rd to Morgan Fahey.
Our Junior Parading judge Annette Walker had her work cut out with 3 classes.
Everyone tried very hard presenting and leading their cattle with the
placegetters being -
|
U13 yrs |
13 - 15 yrs |
16 - 17 yrs |
| 1st |
Morgan Fahey |
Lisa Quiney |
Rachael Hancock |
| 2nd |
Chad Williamson |
Bryce Summerell |
Aaron Looker |
| 3rd |
Matthew Fahey |
Luke Whan |
Brad Flyod |
Our three first placegetters then judged a rather large over 30's class!
Which drew great interest.
The end of the Parading saw much frantic packing of gear before our final lunch
and presentations. During the Presentations, all seventeen young
participants received a camp certificate. The Herdsperson Award for general
attitude and wiliness to learn and help others went to Bryce Summerell.
Two encouragement awards went out, one to Chad Williamson, the other to Tim
Light.
We hope that everyone learnt lots and enjoyed the camp, going by the questions
on next year's camp, I'm sure they did. Much thanks to our Guest Speakers - Pam
Wilson, the Evans', Colin Rex and Annette Walker. Huge thanks also go to our
hard working cooks - Dorothy, Priscilla and Ellen Hancock and Jill Bockman.
2003 Youth Cattle Camp
The 2003 Red Poll Cattle Breeders Youth Camp, was held at
Heathcote Junction in Victoria.
Click here to see what we did at the 2003 camp.
Page last updated: May 12th,
2008
This page is hosted on the Victorian Red Poll web
site, for updates contact Graham Neal
