Solomon Huchins

During my introduction to Extension I was able to meet a lot of people I will be working with inside the Frederick Maryland extension building. I was also introduced to my fellow intern Andrea and mentors Mr. Mark and Mr. Nathen they both were very kind, helpful and informative i always feel welcomed in extension and excited to learn and am motivated to learn more and aid in anyways i can at extension.

My first day at extension we worked with cows and sheep as well as the duty we had that day was weighing and collecting animal feces. The reasoning behind this is to provide information about general health, rumen fermentation, and digestive function of cows and their digestion checking for sickness parasites or more. Both varieties of animals were healthy and had the desired weight for cattle.

After that we made trips to farms to aid in helping farms with possible questions and problems they were facing. Traveling to different extension collaborating on a blog post visiting interesting websites about agriculture, offices meeting other workers in extension learning more about the job opportunities and master farmers was overall a great experience.