By Corryn La Rue
Tonight at 6 p.m. Utah State University’s Animal Science club held its first Calf Club opener at the south farm. The club had a clinician come to the meeting to explain to students how to properly handle cattle. The club held this opener to change the way the sale is prepared by educating the students on proper animal husbandry and safety tips.
The sale is an annual event. The club sells the university-owned calves to 4-H and FFA students as projects. These calves are worked with by USU students every day until the sale to ensure they are trained on the halter.
“We open the event up to students and teach them a little bit about handling the calves, how to halter break them and just giving the students a lot of hands-on experience,” Hadfield said. “Our main goal is to teach people how to work with the calves, but we also have 25 calves to halter break and a month to do it.”
The vice president of the club Aleigh Aurin said this year the club is including five calves which have a special purpose.
“The breeders of these specific calves are paying USU’s Animal Science club to halter break the calves,” Aurin said. “They will also be included in the sale. The profit we make off of breaking other breeders’ animals will go towards field trips for the club.”
By doing this opener and clinic the club was able to involve more students to halter break the animals. Halter breaking is when the animal is finally trained to lead, or walk, with a halter on.
The opener was a formal kickoff to the Club Calf Sale event they are holding on Nov. 4.
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