{"id":4826,"date":"2018-05-08T08:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:04:59","slug":"trumbull-agriscience-students-get-first-hand-experience-in-lambing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=4826","title":{"rendered":"Trumbull Agriscience Students Get First-Hand Experience in Lambing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Davis \u201818<br \/>\nNancy Zeigler \u201818<br \/>\n<em>EE<\/em> Staff Writers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lambs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4829 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Photo courtesy of Nancy Ziegler\" src=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lambs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Spring is almost here and for the Trumbull Regional Agriscience and Biotechnology Center Honors Animal Science Class it is the most exciting time of the year: lambing season.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, March 15, seven of the eight ewes bred had given birth to a total of eight rams and five ewes.<br \/>\nThe junior and senior students are learning a lot at the barn as they assist in lambing and raising the newborns. The students in class have been learning and preparing for months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe class experience helped with knowing the birthing process,\u201d said Maddie Buzzeo a junior in the class, \u201cbecause I knew what to expect what was to come from a normal birth and what was not normal\u201d.<!--more--><br \/>\nA unique part of the FFA and agricultural education is the hands on experience it provides. And the students of the Trumbull FFA chapter are seeing the importance of this hands on learning first hand.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Cunningham, another junior, knows the importance of the hands on experience, and what it has taught her.<br \/>\n\u201cTo legitimately work with animals. That\u2019s probably one of the greatest things about being in agriscience,\u201d said Cunningham.<br \/>\nThe Honors Animal Science Class is a two year course composed of juniors and seniors. The mix of grades offers a difference in experience among the members of the class and has a large contribution to how the class works.<\/p>\n<p>The seniors, who have a year of experience in the class, are able to mentor the juniors in all the challenges faced on the farm that in-class instructions cannot always prepare the students for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best part about having both seniors and juniors in the class is that we both learn from each other,\u201d said Kelsey Heir, a senior.<\/p>\n<p>The unique mixed grade class and daily hands on learning are things that make FFA and agricultural education a fun and effective way to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Davis \u201818 Nancy Zeigler \u201818 EE Staff Writers Spring is almost here and for the Trumbull Regional Agriscience and Biotechnology Center Honors Animal Science Class it is the most exciting time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}