Today was a busy day in Australia! It seems to be getting
busier and busier each day. The food is also getting better and better! Thank
goodness. I thought I was going to famish there for a while!
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| This is our group at the Emu ranch! |
We got to see some of the Albury night life last night. We
all had a really fun time spending time together. It is amazing how well our
group really gets along. It is like we are all family! I know that I will
definitely miss all of them when this experience is over.
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| Having fun in Albury |
The day started out with leaving the hotel, getting some
breakfast, and another long bus ride to see a sheep farm called Trigger Vale.
This sheep farm owned around 4,000 head of Moreno and white face Suffolk lambs.
They were extremely focused on performance data. The wool was unbelievable.
Never will I feel wool like I felt today. It just blows our wool out of the
water. It was so soft and so clean!
There was also an adorable bottle lamb that was running around the farm
for us to pet and take pictures with.
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| Me and the baby lamb Tom! :) |
After the sheep farm, we headed to Marrocka Emu Farm. This
was definitely an experience! We came up to the pasture to see them, and they
all started ffighting. I don’t mean like pecking every once in a while. It was
hardcore attacking each other. It was kind of scary, but it was normal because
it is mating season and they are extremely territorial. We also learned that
they use the Emu’s mostly for the oil they produce. At this particular farm, he
said those Emu’s would produce $25,000 annually in just oil production. Plus,
they lay green eggs! How cool is that?! They also served us a nice steak lunch
before we left. The scenery was once again very beautiful.
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| The Emu's were fighting! |
After this we rounded out our night at the Spry Shorthorns.
This was, in my opinion, the best cattle operation we have seen thus far. They
had really nice stock at this facility. The bulls that were presented for us to
see were very high quality. One of the bulls just got done winning the Sydney
Royal. This farm was extremely well versed on the industry and educated us very
well. After we got done learning about their business, we had yet another steak
dinner. This steak was different though. It was our first grain fed steak we
have ate in Australia. It was a really good tasting steak! After the dinner, we
sat around and enjoyed ourselves talking amongst ourselves and the owners of
the operation.
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| Kara and I at the Spry Shorthorn Ranch! |
Like I said today was a busy day, but we are all having such
a great time. There will be more to come tomorrow!
Katelyn
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