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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Animal Care.

For this BB, you will breed a cow and raise one calf!

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To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- breed a cow and raise one calf

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
- caring for a cow
- caring for the pregnant cow
- caring for the cow and one calf
- one calf that is at least one week old

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Here are a few pictures of one of my registered Polled Hereford cows, Apple. The below pictures start with a picture of Apple at one day old and ending with a picture of her years later with her 16 day old calf Éclair. In terms of cow care, this includes ensuring they have a salt block with selenium available and accessible at all times, ensuring they have access to a water trough at all times, ensuring they are rotated to a new paddock every 3-7 days during the grass growing season, feeding hay twice a day during the non-grass growing season, and sometimes providing a supplemental protein bucket if the hay is poor quality or the cow condition is degraded. For heifers (first time cows) I also tend to separate them into a pen a week or two before calving so that I can keep a better eye on them.

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