This time of year 4-H and FFA youth are showing animals at their county or state fair. A lot of preparation goes into getting livestock ready for a fair—not only proper feeding, but also handling, ...

Holly, Scooter, Essie, and Peaches are four of the ten calves that will be part of the Farm Day Camp at Miles Smith Farm. Campers (ages 8-14) will get to love and train these cuties as their own for a ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — The Chandler Herefords ranch breeds cattle for gentle dispositions, and halter-breaking their registered heifer and bull calves emphasizes that trait. The tradition has carried ...

When training calves as oxen, use a step-by-step plan. Start by handling them often, tying, grooming, teaching them to lead with a halter. Then they are ready for a yoke. At first, keep one or both of ...

On the second day of the Learning Networks Foundation summer day camp at Miles Smith Farm, all campers were assigned a Scottish Highlander calf. Lyle and Lochlan (front) are working with Poppy, and ...

FIRESTONE — Ninety-one-pound Kaitlyn Faye faces a dusty, old-fashioned Western challenge when she tries for the first time to catch a calf that weighs between 200 and 400 pounds during Thursday’s ...

PENNOCK -- All summer long, 9-year-old Macy Rohner Erickson had been working with her 4-H calf named Mosley in anticipation of showing it at the Kandiyohi County Fair next week. But instead of ...