High Steaks

And with that.... FLC 2021 has come to an end 😢🎉❤️

Well done and thanks to our fellow groups, it was one heck of a roller coaster ride but so good and filled with so many memories 🐂🎉❤️

A special shout out to Dead Poets Sosatie, Star Wors and Beefweizer- big congrats for being the top 3 🎉🎉🎉👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Well done High Steaks, I think we did our cattle proud 👏🏽 as the wise Doc Andy says, "Our duty is to make the animals lives, however long they may last, the best ever."
I think we did that ❤️

opfeedlot2021

THE R E S U L T S ARE IN....

We are so surprised and very proud of our heifer, 303, for winning best overall heifer in the OPFLC 2021 🎉🐂

Our main man, 310, also did really well and we're very happy with the results 💪🏽 well done team High Steaks-you guys are the bees knees 🐝

Congratulations to all the other groups as well, you can be really proud 🎉 we did good kids, we did good 👏🏽

Now it's almost time to say goodbye 🥺 what a wild ride it has been🌪️

We're going to be looking very snazzy for our last feed collection this afternoon 👒 all thanks goes to for sponsoring these amazing caps 🎉

Today we are collecting our final load of feed 🤧 definitely mixed emotions going on 🥺 stay tuned to see the last few events of the feedlot challenge! It is going to be a very exciting and BUSY next few days 😅

FACULTY'S OP FEEDLOT CHALLENGE ONGOING DESPITE COVID-19 CHALLENGES

The Faculty's annual Onderstepoort Feedlot Challenge is still going strong in 2021 despite COVID-19 challenges. The purpose of the challenge is to get fifth-year veterinary students interested in and informed about production animals and systems. This year is the 13th year that the Department of Production Animal Studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Science hosts its popular challenge.

The format for this year's challenge has been adapted to comply with COVID-19 regulations and even the simulated auction where the students buy the cattle for the challenge was only attended by a certain number of people.

Despite all this the eight student groups competing in the challenge are clearly motivated and in good spirits. The successful completion of the Feedlot Challenge, which ends in early June, is quite important since it carries 40% of the year mark for the module RUM 511.

Read more about 2021's Feedlot Challenge - via AgriOrbit - here https://bit.ly/3v0KHus

When a hearty breakfast just touches your soul 😏

Sorry we've disappeared for a while (it was recess 😅) but our cattle have been very well looked after and are looking so happy, all thanks to the recess team 😍💪🏽

.... You're welcome 😍

And the results are in 🏆

We weigh our cattle every few weeks to see how the gains are going 💪🏽 and the biggest gainer over all since the last weighing was this handsome man over here, 315 😏

And the prize for the ladies goes to 301... 301 is number 1 😉 (sorry, I had to 🤭)

Keep an eye out to see who will weigh in first next at the next one 🎉🐂

Shmodel 🐄

This is definitely one of the favourites, he came to us as a Fluffy baby, may or may not have been given about 5 different names 👀 ( 'tgetattached) and is now flexing them gains for the camera 😉📸

We cannot believe time is flying so fast 😢 but our cattle are looking GOOD, if we may say so ourselves 😏