A Hoof Up On The Competition

Valley Youth Learn About Choosing, Raising Market Animals For County Fair

Posted: January 14, 2013

Lauren Rhodes, 9, a fourth-grader at North River Elementary School, checks out two Yorkshire/Hampshire cross show hogs on display at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds as part of a market animal boot camp on Saturday. The event was attended by 4-H and FFA members from Highland, Bath, Shenandoah, Augusta and Rockingham counties. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Lori Teter, 7, a second-grader at Churchville Elementary School, prepares to give an intranasal vaccine to a mock cow with help from Brittany Thompson, with Pfizer Animal Health.

HARRISONBURG — Although Katie Payne, 6, has been around animals her whole life on her family’s Fulks Run farm, one trick she’s still mastering is the art of showing her four-legged friends in...



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