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| One of the first times leading Cheese. |
For those who don't know what Little I is, according to sdstate.edu, "Little International is a two-day agricultural exposition planned, organized, and implemented by students at South Dakota State University for the benefit of high school and college students." I got the opportunity to participate in the dairy fitting and showmanship contest. You draw an animal out of a hat and I got a Brown Swiss numbered 392 and that I named her Cheese (so she was Brown "Swiss Cheese.")
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| Topping our show apparel with girly colors, me in pink and cheese in purple:) |
The first day I worked with Cheese, she flipped herself over four times, ran me through a puddle on my knees, and ran me into a post. Not the first day I was expecting, since I heard that Brown Swiss were stubborn, so I was expecting to pull her around all day, not her pull me around. Within the next two weeks, she slowly and surely improved each day. By the time of the show, we were very close and she would even give me fist bumps with her nose, none the less, a pretty cool cow. We even got 6th in the fitting show, the best topline I have ever done, but she had a little trouble in showmanship, placing us towards the bottom, although we still had fun. Overall I will definitely be doing Little I again next year, it was a great two weeks of school that felt like summer, getting time to spend with cows.
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| Cheese and I with our 6th Place ribbon. |
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| The best topline I've ever done. |
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