The motto of 4H is growing confident, capable and caring youth with live skills to thrive, and that is not more evident than the success at the Allen County Fair.
Down at the Dairy Barn the work is never done and one person who knows that the best is 10-year-old Dominic Conaway. This is Dominic’s second year for showing dairy steers at the fair and he know what needs to be done to get his steers ready for judging.
“You got to wash them a lot and you have to walk them. You got to make sure they are use to you, you got to get used to them and the hardest part is when you have to get rid of them,” commented Dominic Conaway.
This will be Dominic’s first year that he will be taking his dairy steers to the fair auction, a process that could be emotionally hard and a little bit confusing.
“It’s going to be kind of hard when I have to say goodbye. A lot people are just putting up signs and yelling numbers and stuff. I don’t even know what’s going on sometimes," adds Dominic.
Dominic is showing two steers this year and is expecting good money from Oreo that weights close to 2000 pounds. Dominic has some advice for others who may be looking at raising and showing dairy steers.
“When you are with steers never run around them and never go behind them because you could get kicked just like a horse. I got kicked in the knee, it hurt," said Dominic.
