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 HIGHLAND YOUTH 2009 ENTRIES NOW OPEN! Submit your entries here to be in the running to represent the Australian Highland Cattle Society as the Highland Youth for 2008 ~ details below WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE 2008 NATIONAL SHOW Highland Youth is an initiative of the AHCS Council to promote, foster and encourage younger members of the ‘Highland Community’ into a greater devotion and appreciation of the breed. Council recognises that the future of the breed lies within the innovation of its youth, and we must harness and utilize this resource to secure the breed’s rightful place in the future. From this web page Highland Youth (Junior Members) can band together, swap stories, articles, jokes and experiences as they learn, grow and nurture the future of the Highland breed here in Australia. Currently we are seeking articles from each Junior Members about their future for and with the Highland Breed. The article judged best by Council will be posted onto the web site, with the author awarded a perpetual plaque and the title of AHCS Highland Youth for 12 months. Each Highland Youth award winners will be asked to liaise with Council and Representatives in their local area and become involved with and encourage the involvement of other members both young and old in organising Field Days, Local Shows, and Heifer camps. So if you or anyone you know is eligible to be a Junior Member of the Society and wants to become more involved, this is your page, and you are invited by Council to use it. Submit your jokes, stories, unusual pictures, upcoming events, and items of interest here by email highlandyouth@highlandcattle.org.au, or via your State Representative. Mark the Highland National Show in your diary, and enter the Handler Classes, and remember the Victorian Handlers Camp being held annually in April at the Melbourne Show Grounds with further details available from the Stud Beef Victoria Web site www.studbeef.com.au and the SA Junior Heifer Expo held in July at the Adelaide Show Grounds with details and entry forms available from www.sabeef.com.au/juniorheiferexpo Persons wishing to enter these events but who cannot access an animal should contact highlandyouth@highlandcattle.org.au for assistance in sourcing an animal from a local Fold. In the mean time, use this diagram and practice your rope halter making skills. Click the thumbnail below to view image larger  |
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