Herald the Bull

I spent time on the family farms of two teenagers last week for a story on an upcoming youth livestock exposition. They were both sweet, polite, patient, and just all around great kids. Farm life always seems to churn out good folks. At the second farm high school senior Hunter Grayson took me and a reporter on a tour. We ventured out in the pastures to get a closer look at some heffers when Hunter noticed one named "Reba" was under a shady grove of trees away from the herd. He told us that she might have just given birth. We made our way over to find a slimy, clumsy-legged calf. Hunter moved in to get a closer look and told us that he was a little bull. I asked what he was going to name him. He thought about it a second and then announced that he would call him "Herald" after the Athens Banner-Herald.


Camille Odom, 17, a state officer for 4-H, works with her wether "Carlton" to prepare for the Junior Cattlemen Associtation's "Youth Livestock Exposition" Thursday at her family's sheep farm in Bishop. The Exposition will be held Saturday at Heritage Park.


Camille Odom, 17, a state officer for 4-H, works with her wether "Hampton" with father Keith Odom.


Hunter Grayson, 18, brushes his bull "Cheeky Bull" as he demonstrates what it takes to prepare for the Junior Cattlemen Associtation's Youth Livestock Exposition at his family's cattle farm in Bishop.


Hunter Grayson, 18, walks across his family's cattle farm.


Hunter Grayson, 18, checks on a newborn calf he named "Herald" after the Athens Banner-Herald at his family's cattle farm Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, in Bishop.


Reba cleans her newborn baby calf.


Hunter Grayson, 18, checks on a newborn calf he named "Herald" after the Athens Banner-Herald at his family's cattle farm Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, in Bishop.