Adelaide Show 

Last week 15 students attended the Royal Adelaide Show with 6 merino wethers that had been raised in the school feedlot, under the care of the Merino Wethers Studio class. Students were required to develop feeding rations as well as set production and financial goals. They cleaned the feedlot weekly and spent hours walking to the wethers to ensure they were comfortable on a halter and walking in unfamiliar environments. All students worked extremely hard and produced high quality, well behaved wethers to showcase at the Show. Unfortunately we did not place this year, with over 70 schools involved, the competition was fierce!

We did, however, place first in the fleece competition that was judged before the start of the show and one of our students, Bella Pratt, placed in the top 18 in the handler competition out of a field of over 200 competitors.

All students represented BHS with pride and were excited to speak to anyone who and to tell them all about their sheep. Results aside, the team did a fantastic job at the show and certainly did BHS proud with the quality of their sheep and the professionalism with which they conducted themselves. Well done to all involved!

Farmer's Market

Don’t forget that the Farmer's Market is continuing to run on Thursdays and Fridays out the front of the Community Library during the term (weather determining). Come and grab some fresh fruit and other produce. Currently we have some dehydrated fruit and various jams available. Keep on the look out for more products as the Studio team transitions from sheep farming to value adding! All products are made by students from farm produce and proceeds go back into the Agriculture program. A big thank you to the library staff for helping me out with this venture!

Shearing

Shearing will commence in the next few weeks. Sheep shearing more than likely before the holidays and Alpaca shearing in the first few weeks of Term 4 (dates still to be determined). If you have 1 or 2 sheep or alpacas that you are struggling to find a shearer for, we may be able to help you out at a cost per head. If this is something you may be interested in, please register your interest at colleen.lowe667@schools.sa.edu.au 

Meat Orders

Final meat orders are ready to go. We have:

Pork @ $10/kg

Lamb @ $10/kg

Turkeys – rolls or whole (price to be determined)

We also have frozen whole chickens @ $8/kg and various cuts of pork in the freezer ready to go!

Please put orders through to colleen.lowe667@schools.sa.edu.au

Pullets

I am now taking orders for pullets @ $20 per bird. They will not be ready for collection until the end of next term, but are definitely starting to shape up nicely! Email for pullet orders and I will contact you when they are ready to be collected.

We will also be selling the school layer birds towards the end of term 4 @ $10 per bird. Please also email if you are interested in any of these.

Colleen Lowe

Science/Math/Agriculture Teacher

Student Engagement Coordinator