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A popular regional animal showing competition, Otamatea Group Day, is back next month, after last year’s event was cancelled due to cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.
The 2019 show will take place on Sunday, October 20 at the Kaiwaka Sports Complex, off Gibbons Road, from 8am to 1pm and is open to calves, lambs and goat kids.
Committee member Michaela McCracken says organisers have been working with Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) biosecurity guidelines to do whatever possible to make the day safe for calf competitors. Calves will be led in and out of separate entrances, for example, and will have to be tied up separately at all times. There will also be MPI posters and signage explaining about M. bovis and risk management.
The Otamatea Group Day has been running for more than a decade and is aimed at young animal handlers of all ages living anywhere between Warkworth and Waipu. Entrants can be preschool, primary school, college or home-schooled and do not need to have competed at a school ag day to take part.
Pre-registrations will go in a draw for an early-bird prize, providing entries are received by Monday, October 14, otherwise registrations start on the day at 8am and the first class for college-aged
students starts at 9am.
For more information and entries, contact Michaela McCracken on 021 266 9164 or email silverstreamsalers@gmail.com
