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2008 Jersey Cattle Society Young Members Weekend
Friday 8th – Sunday 10th August 2008

Around 30 young members aged from 5 to 25 and from Cornwall to Penrith, Lincolnshire to Surrey and of course South Wales attended a weekend full of activities at the farm of the Evans family at Nantyci farm near Carmarthen. Even though it rained for most of the time the young people who were split into four teams worked very hard to produce four animals per team, to bring them up to show standard by Sunday morning.

During the weekend they were shown how to clip, stockjudge, and lead and handle cows and heifers. A session with a local vet was also included as were the secrets of classification as shown to them by Meruig James from Holstein UK.

The four teams were Cream of the Crop, Roses and Dragons, Pure Gold and J.E.A.P. (James Evans appreciation !!)

The main awards were as follows:-

Overall – Robert Bland (Clifton)
Best Team Leader – Matthew Pye (Bayview)
Best Newcomer – Sarah Birtles (Bar M)
Most Improved – Steffan James (Oakfield)
Best Young Stockperson- Morgan Senior (Quick Brew)
Best Team – J.E.A.P (Robert Bland, Phil Morgan, Kate Arrowsmith, Bethan Senior, Jack Arrowsmith, Nia Jones, Tanwen Cox and Rhydian Phillips).

What a great weekend we all had and I would like to express my sincere thanks to our hosts the Evans family, Huw, Jennifer, Helen and Nicola and to all the other helpers, tutors and parents who made the weekend so special. How very nice also to see our President Don Dawes and his wife visit us on Sunday morning. We very much appreciated your company.

I hope to see you all again in 2009 when we will be in the Midlands – “watch this space”.

Nick Dain
Young Members Coordinator

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