Hello everyone! My name is Paige Lambros and I am a sophomore in the AVS, Honors and Pre-Vet Program. Throughout the semester of UMADCOWS we get assigned being herdsperson twice. This time around I was first herdsperson, which entails weighing the baby boys and the livestock boys. Monday night of my assigned week I went with my friend in our program cause she is third herdsperson and we had to halter up the boys and walk them to the scale in livestock. Let me tell you guys it was wild but fun in that it was like trying to walk a big dog. Plus the babies were so excited to get outside they were prancing and jumping around. Also Captin Kirk was licking my neck and tried to escape and succeeded for a bit but only outside his paddock's door. Some of the steers weights are Noble being a whopping 192 lbs, Rimfire was 117 lbs, Captin Kirk was 519 lbs and Angus our biggest boy was 1091 lbs. The reason this is important is because this is a checking system to make sure our babies are growing at a healthy rate. For after we weigh the calves then we compare their current weight to what it was before. This is just another example of the J.F Witter Center taking care of our loveable and cute livestock. So we are thankful for our cute fuzzy babies.
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