Agribition Day 4

Today was a short day for me. I got to sleep in. Mom and Dad went to the grounds for tie-ins and then came back for me. Then we did a little shopping and went back.

Today was the last day of the show so we'll be coming home tomorrow. The big thing today was the Beef Supreme championship. All of the breed winners show against each other along with the winners of each breed and a bunch of other shows. I couldn't get a real great picture but this is a taste of how big this whole thing is.

So anyway that was my excitement for the day. Well that and taking down the stalls which means lots of trips back and forth to the truck. Like I said tomorrow we head home.

Agribition Day 3

I'm writing this a day late because yesterday was a long day. By the time I got back to the hotel all I wanted to do was take a hot bath and go to bed.

So yesterday was our sale. I think it went fairly well. We had the high selling animal in the sale which was kind of nice. To me it sort of validates the choices that mom and dad have been making in their breeding program.

At some point during the day Mom and I wandered around a bit. All I could think about was how much pain there was in my feet. So when we got to the arena I insisted that we stop and watch a little bit. They were demonstrating Roman Riding, which is where you stand up on the back of two horses and ride around. It looked pretty dangerous to me, but then anything with horses usually is as far as I'm concerned.

Agribition Day Two

Yesterday I mentioned that today is show day. For anyone who is just stumbling to this blog and doesn't know me, my parents have registered cattle that they sometimes show. It's kind of like a dog show but for cows. So anyway today was the show for our breed. I should mention that the show isn't usually on day two and today is only day two for me, Dad has been here since Saturday.

So how did we do? Well let's just say it was a mixed bag. Some of our animals did well and some didn't do quite so well. There are reasons for this that I won't bother getting into since no one wants to hear me blab on and on about how this cow is better than some others. But we had two big wins today. One of our heifer calves won Reserve Champion heifer calf. The other thing we won that we're quite proud of is Get of Sire, which means we had 3 animals out of the same sire (father) in the ring and the judge thought our animals were better than the others.

So that was day two. Tomorrow is the sale where we're hoping to get big bucks for our animals.

Agribition Day One

We started out at 6:45 this morning for Regina. It was a really pleasant drive. Mom and I stopped at 3 Tim Horton's before we hit the Saskatchewan border. We had a little adventure (aka we got lost) on our way to the grounds but we eventually found the right place.

I didn't have a whole lot to do today until tie outs. Let me just say that I'm going to have to train harder if I'm going to do this Agribition thing again.

Now it's 10 o'clock and time for sleep seeing as how I have to get up at 6 tomorrow to get cattle ready for the show.