EweMania comes to the Keystone
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Dozens of kids from schools around Brandon, including St. Augustine and Maryland Park, took in the first day of EweMania on Wednesday, learning about sheep shearing, dog herding, wool use, what sheep eat and how sheep producers keep their animals healthy.
The event was one of the highlights of the opening day of Manitoba Ag Ex at Brandon’s Keystone Centre.
EweMania is a public education program specifically designed for school kids that is offered by the Manitoba Sheep Association as part of the organization’s Sheep Show.
Sheep farmer Jonathon Nichol from Darlingford gives students from Maryland Park School a sheep shearing demonstration at the Keystone Centre on the starting day of Manitoba Ag Ex on Wednesday afternoon. (Photos by Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
A selection of volunteer breeders with the association set up several stations at the Keystone Centre for groups of kids to watch demonstrations and see and touch the animals first hand. For many kids it may be the first time they’ve seen a sheep up close.
EweMania, along with its bovine counterpart MooMania — which introduces grades 3 to 5 with the life of a cow — are designed to help students better understand animal husbandry and Canadian food production.
Manitoba Ag Ex is the province’s largest all-breeds cattle show, drawing top breeders, livestock exhibitors and industry leaders from across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Ag Ex runs until Saturday.
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Grade 4 students from St. Augustine School in Brandon get up close and personal with some sheep during a sheep herding demonstration at the Keystone Centre on the starting day of Manitoba Ag Ex on Wednesday afternoon.
Saskatchewan residents Brynn Scott (from left) and Clara White look at the phone of Manitoba resident Emery Griffin during the opening day of the Manitoba Ag Ex livestock show on Wednesday afternoon at the Keystone Centre’s Assiniboine Credit Union Agricultural Centre.
A woman and her yearling are silhouetted against an open door at the Keystone Centre.
