Have you ever thought of raising animals, or even male cows? Have you ever thought how you’d feel if they were slaughtered after winning a campaign? One girl from Yuma, Arizona has.

Hailee is a 15-year-old girl who loves taking care of animals. Not only does she raise animals, but she also shows them at competitions and wins medals.

When was little, she used to raise rabbits and pigs. She grew out of that and now she raises steer, or male cows, to be slaughtered for beef.

“To win a competition, the cow has to be the biggest, strongest, and best-groomed steers, Hailee says.

When Hailee is not at school, she spends the rest of her time taking care of her steer. She wakes up in the morning, and then rinses and feeds the animals. Comes home from school, and takes care of them for another good three to four hours.

“I enjoy taking care of steer, it’s like having a dog, except bigger. They play and run. And I love the challenge of raising them,” she says.

When going to a competition, she only brings one steer. To get the steer ready Hailee says it’s a long process. She washes his hair, blow dries it with a big blow drier, puts hair spray in its hair, and sometimes even black paint that can make their darker colors more even.

When at the competition, if your steer wins, it is then taken to a slaughterhouse. “Knowing that is tough. It was a bad day when we had to say goodbye. My whole family didn’t want to lose “Mully”, but you really can’t keep a steer,” she says.

After Hailee lost her steer in the competition, she decided she is going to keep raising animals. “Now I have three pigs, a steer, and a heifer, which is a female cow.”

As she gets older, and into college, she plans on studying something related to agriculture so she can continue to learn about animals.