On Friday the 24/8/18 the primary industries class went up to Colo the school farm and outdoor education facility. Our sole purpose for the visit to Colo was to handle livestock and to ear tag each of the calves that needed to be tagged. It started with a 7:30am bus where we travelled for about one and a bit hours, as we arrived we got ourselves ready and prepared for the tasks that needed to be done. As the cattle had been put into the yards just before we arrived we got straight into talking the calves out of the herd and put into another holding yard. As cattle are herd animals they like to be with the rest of the herd so after we had all the un tagged calves into a separate holding yard we prepared the ear tags and applicators (the hand-held device that puts the tags into the ear) ready. While we got the calves up the race and into the crush there was no time to waste and had to work, as efficiently as possible making sure each tag was put into each ear as quickly as possible so the animal wasn’t going to overstress and be put into the herd as quickly as we could. After the tagging had all been finished we washed our hands and jumped on the bus for some lunch where we had ham and cheese roles with a bottle of water. Before we knew it we were off the bus and back into the yards where we tried to get some of the fully grown cows that had lost an ear tag and we were drafting off the cows that all their tags and were left with the ones that had their tags missing but as we were in the process was being done we unfortunately had run out of time and had to pack up and head back to school as the task was left for another day. What our class had learned that day was the hard work that goes into working with cattle, although we advanced our knowledge and sharpened our cattle handling skills we had an enjoyable day and put into practice what we had learned from the classroom and to go out of the classroom and put what we learned into practice.