Term 4 Goals 2017

Since this year is my last year and this Term is my last Term at TAI. I want to finish my year on a high, but the only way to do so is to make some goals. My first goal for Term Four is to learn how to use commas correctly. My next goal is to not talk and/or get distracted by others next to me or around me. Since we have Nicky and Harold at our school, I also want to make a goal and ask more questions about this particular topic that we are focusing on. Another goal would have to be to elaborate my ideas when writing a free choice peice of writing. All these goals pretty much sum up my Term Four goals.

Term 3 Holidays recap

On the first weekend of the holidays I went and helped mum dock some sheep. Since mums a vet, she allows me to go help her and I also get paid from it. We drove out to Otorohanga for this job, and the man who owns the farm is Mike. Mike is the owner of a sheep farm, he also breeds lots of Murray Grey's and sells lots of bulls too. This year was his first year going for a bull sale and luckily enough, I got to cook food for everyone there and help wash the bulls before auction. Anyway, on the Sunday of this weekend, Mike and my Mum were going to dock some Sheep, but didnt have enough people to do so. So I volunteered to help, but first I worked out a deal. Ten bucks an hour, and even then, mum gave me more afterwards. So to dock the sheep, you put them down a little shot, upside down facing. Then you have to vaccinate them twice, give them a drench down the throat, put a hole in their ears, use a scratch on their fore leg, put a rubber band on their tales and put a spray on there stomach. All these drenches and that help the sheep fight against certain diseases. My job was to put a hole in their ears and to also give each sheep two vaccinations. After about six hours worth of docking sheep, I made myself $70 and we managed to dock 296 lambs.
On Wednesday, my sister Anita and I went out to our mums clients daughters house, Kate's house. She also lives out in Otorohanga and also lives on a farm. This year for calf club we got our calves from their house and they are really good calves too. The whole point of going out to her house was to spend lots of quality time brushing, leading and washing our calves. On Saturday we had the MataMata A&P Show. My calf, Mia, did very well winning a first in Rearing. A fifth in Type and a Third place overall for Rearing (out of 70 calves). Unfortunately Anita's calf, Zee, didn't win anything, and Kate won a First in Rearing, a sixth in Type and Reserve Champion overall for Rearing (2nd place in front of me). Kate and I were very close competition as the judges had to decide the Reserve champion between us and also fifth and sixth for Type.
On Tuesday my mum, two others plus me, drove down to New Plymouth. We were heading down to my grand parent's house to dehorn some calves and also vaccinate. As soon as we got out of the car, we were straight into it. Trent on clipping and shaving around the horn, Aleisha on injecting local anesthetic around the horns, me on vaccinating each calf twice, keeping track of how many calves we did and also to inject the calves so they fall asleep. Then my mum dehorn's the calves after everyone else has done their jobs. Overall we did 129 calves and it took us about four hours to do all the calves and also four hours driving time. For this job I earnt $130 and I was stoked with that.
Once again Anita and I went to Kate's house. This time on Friday to again, wash, brush and lead the calves. The next competition for us is next week held at Te Awamutu Primary School. Anita and I usually do really well at these smaller events as there aren't as many people in it. At the A&P Shows, there are about 20-30 people in each ring, and about 10 in the non A&P Shows. On Saturday Anita, Kate, Trent and I went to dck more sheep. This time it was for fun and we docked about 160 sheep. This time docking was really fun as the sheep were bigger and escaped from their pen alot. Therefore having to catch them before they jump out or go and catch them. r another had days work I ended up catching six sheep and caught an Eel. After docking we wnt out more onto Mike's farm and went and caught Eels. I ended up catching one and we had loads of fun catching them. I will keep you guys updated with next weeks lot next week.