820-LancasMr Farming, Saturday, Dacambar 12, 1987
FFA Teaches Animals And Confidence
BY USA RISSER
NEW HOLLAND Surround
Kristin Chupp with her animals
and the cheerful, confident teena
ger becomes even mote confident
and content At ease with both
small and large animals, Kristin
prefers the largo 1 animals, in fact,
she plans to become a veterinarian
specializing in them.
Her affinity with animals made
becoming a FFA member and a
4-H’er a natural course. “Shove
any animal my way and I’ll love
it,” Kristin declared. “I went into
production in the vo-ag depart
ment because I could raise ani
mals. I never thought twice about
it.”
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year* In FFA and 4-H. Here are those that she received this
year.
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Kristin’s menagerie currently
consists of four steers, two sheep,
anda horse, of which two steers are
projects for 4-H. She belongs to
the New Holland and Red Rose
Baby Beef clubs, the latter of
which she joined in the sixth grade.
A junior at Garden Spot High
School, Kristin has been in the
school's vo-ag department since
her first year. Her animal projects,
which require her to raise and train
an animal for show and eventual
sale, have helped her learn then
feeding and housing needs, beha
vioral habits, and health require
ments. all of which will be invalu
able to Kristin as a veterinarian.
She also has learned about the
care of animals from her step-
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father, Larry Weaver, a hog and
beef cattle farmer, who himself
was active in FFA as a high-school
student Sharing in this learning
experience is her mother. Barb,
and her sister, Jodie Weaver, a
sophomore and with whom Kristin
competes in a good-natured
manner.
Kristin received additional
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Die animals that Kristin shows are kept at her stepfai , ,iog a. cattle farm.
Her projects this year Include four steers, two sheep, and a horse.
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training this past summer by
observing and helping doctors
George Zimmerman and Melvyn
Wenger of the Conestoga Animal
Hospital in Ephrata. In the morn
ings, she helped Dr. Wenger with
small animals and afternoons were
spent with Dr. Zimmerman doing
cow pregnancy tests.
Kristin’s yearly steer projects
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begin when she and her family take
a drive to a New York beef cattle
farm in July and select one or more
unweaned calves. She returns to
New York in October, when the
calves are weaned, to bring them to
her farm.
“The smaller steers aren’t tame
so you have to get them-used to the
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