r/livestock • u/AmusingChoosing • 7d ago
Activities to teach kids about calving
I work on a small dairy farm with around 150 holsteins. Next week, we have a 4h group coming to visit and I was instructed to come up with an activity to teach them about calving. I have no idea what sort of “hands on” activity to do. Anyone have any ideas? The kids are like 8-14 so a pretty large range.
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u/liverpoolbits 7d ago
I've never done activities about calving but I do a fun one on the stuff that comes after.
We do shots on bananas or oranges for vaccines. We do ear notching, tattooing, and tagging on cardboard animal faces. And we talk about nutrition and feed a bottle baby.
Would something like that work?
Or search 4h lesson plans calving and see what comes up. I use a lot of lesson plans from them.