Murraylands Milkers

• Mitchell

Murraylands Milkers

• Brody

Murraylands Milkers

• Simon

Preparation Before Our Arrival

• Before we arrived all our future companions cleaned up the water trough, the ground of any rocks or anything that could be a hazard and put fresh, clean straw for bedding and some yummy, fresh Lucerne.

Mentor Visit

• The Mentor Perrin Hicks also our farmer visited the students before our big work load to learn about what makes a dairy run, instruments used on a dairy, what roles are carried out and how to keep us happy and healthy. The students here lucky enough to have a nice mentor and farmer that he brought minties for answering the what is this instrument quiz!

When we Arrived

• When we arrived at Murraylands Christian College we were greeted by a group of welcoming students. After we were carried off by Perrin Hicks we felt right at home and were fed some yummy milk.

The next DayThe next Day The next day we had a big sleep in and a The next day we had a big sleep in and a

big breakfast, we got given names today, I’m big breakfast, we got given names today, I’m Savannah and my room mate is Norberta. Savannah and my room mate is Norberta. We share a pen with two nice lambs, Fred We share a pen with two nice lambs, Fred and Bruce. We have new friends already and Bruce. We have new friends already and I like the students here a lot.and I like the students here a lot.

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Hi I’m savannah, I’m a Holstein-Hi I’m savannah, I’m a Holstein-Friesian. I don’t like having people Friesian. I don’t like having people touch me all the time but love touch me all the time but love company.company.

I love feed time because I get to I love feed time because I get to spend quality time with my human spend quality time with my human friends. Norberta always tries to steal friends. Norberta always tries to steal my milk and she head-butts me all my milk and she head-butts me all the time.the time.

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• Hello everyone, my name is Norberta and I’m a very outgoing calve who likes a pat and a run around my pen. I can sometimes be aggressive and a bully but that’s only because I LOVE my milk.

• When I grow up I want to be on a nice farm with friendly cows and I will eat some grass with my friend Savannah.

Weight Graph

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Weight

As you can see above the calves gained a significant amount of weight, as they grew older their weight gain slowed down.

Savannah and Norberta

What Have We Learnt

• We learnt how to care for calves and how to recognise if they’re sick or healthy.

• Applying our skills to a future job from what we learnt

• An idea of how much weight they can put, how much they can consume and what their behaviour

Thankyou’s

• We would all like to say a big thank you to the farmer and mentor to make the program possible for us and letting us borrowing a calve at his expense.

• Mr. Simons our teacher arranging the program

• And the cows create careers program it would be impossible without the program.

• And Perrin bringing in supplies

Pictures

• Measuring their weight

• Mitchell enjoying Making milk

Pictures

• Our friends Fred and Bruce

• Saying goodbye OHHHH!

BY BRODY, MITCHELL AND SIMON