During the school holidays a number of MLMC Agriculture students performed at the Royal Melbourne Show, displaying the skills they had learnt throughout the year in working with poultry and with cattle.
Poultry
Students in the College’s Young Farmers Poultry Club have had the opportunity to show birds at agricultural shows for the last three years. This year, students have been busy each Monday lunchtime in caring for and preparing the birds for show. Ancona, Aracuana, Speckled Sussex and Rhode Island Red birds were entered in the 2019. The Black Ancona hen won first prize in the soft feather, light breed section and we send our congratulations to all the students who have been involved in the program this year on this wonderful result.
Students at MLMC have worked with poultry in the Science classroom at MLMC for 20 years. Wagners Poultry in Coldstream and Abundant Layers in Nar Nar Goon have supplied vaccinated chicks and point of lay birds over this time.
Cattle
Members of our Young Farmers Club also proudly represented the College at the Royal Melbourne Show. From early on the first Saturday morning of the show, the student cattle team of Perry Leane, Bella Green and Tegan Banks was hard at work in the livestock pavilion preparing the cattle for judging. Bella finished third in her senior handlers class, which is a fantastic result. It is great to see the commitment and the skills of our future farmers in action.
We would like to thank our sponsors Melbourne Polytechnic, Ridellview Angus Stud and Tibooburra Angus for their investment in our students.
