4-Hgirl --- Me and my animals

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Hi everyone I guess I am going to start a journal now :)
I am 13 years old and right now I have 8 cows all of them are BeefBuilders which is a dairy cow mom and beef cow dad Seabiscuit, Whirlaway and Rosemont are named after racehorses: Toffee my heifer that we bred last year and she will calve soon her sister is Tootsie I raised Toffee as a bottle calf, Seabiscuit my show steer I showed him last year as a baby and he got Grand Champion BeefBuilder calf I am showing him this year in the Market BeefBuilder class, Checkers my heifer that was born last April we will breed her in a few days, Whirlaway my baby BeefBuilder steer, Nugget my calf that is from my sisters cow me and my brother are buying her from our sister for $500 so we will each have to pay half of that Nugget's mom is a BeefBuilder heifer and her dad is a beef bull, Tootsie my bottle heifer is the sister of Toffee but 2 years younger we also have Toffee's other sister named Taffy but that is my brothers cow she is 1 year older then Tootsie all three of them are linebacks, Rolo my bottle steer that we will sell this winter and Rosemont my other bottle steer which we will also sell this winter. I also have 2 pigs 1 of them is named Puddles he is a spot market barrow and my other pig is a Hampshire breeding gilt named Sparkles. I have a goat named Elvis he is a boer goat I will show him at county and state fair then sell him. I have 2 horses 1 of them is an almost 30 year old buckskin Quarter Horse gelding and the other is a 15 year old bay Grade mare named Phoebe which I will show. I also have a pony named Dora. We also have 4 dogs 1 of them is a Black Lab he is probably around 15 years old and his name is Blackie then there is Moose a 13 year old Beagle then Gizmo a three year old on June 13th he is a Great Pyrenees and finally Skippy he is going to be 3 on June 22nd he is also a Beagle. And now last but not least are my chickens I have 42 of them (no one else in my family likes them so they are just mine even though we sell eggs and everyone still gets money) in the first coop is 12 standard chickens only hens for just eggs: there are 3 Jubilee Orpingtons, 1 Golden Laced Wyandotte, 2 Easter Eggers, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Barred Plymouth Rocks that is it for the first coop now for the 7 week old standard chicks that are in the shop in a water tank used as a brooder: I have 5 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 3 Barred Plymouth Rocks and 3 Buff Orpingtons all of those are hens. now for the 2nd coop I have bantams in that one in that coop I have 1 Rhode Island Red hen, 1 D'Anver rooster, 2 Partridge Wyandotte hens, 1 Cochin hen and 5 Silkie hens. for my 3rd and final coop I also have bantams in there I have: 1 Partridge Wyandotte rooster and 2 Partridge Wyandotte hens, 1 Rhode Island Red rooster and 2 Rhode Island Red hens and now I have finally gotten through all my animals feeding them all takes so long we also have like 2-3 times the number of all animals except chickens because my siblings all have animals too.
 

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here are some of the awards I have won in showing my animals not all I have also won some showmanship I won poultry 1 more time too. the brown and white calf with 2 banners is Toffee and that is also what her sisters look like.
 

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Great job! It’s wonderful that you and your siblings get to grow up with all these animals! I live on a beef ranch. I had a couple of Jersey milk cows but I’m old and feeble so I’m down to just some rabbits, chickens, and 2 old horses, but we live 4 hours from town so I have an English Shepherd and an Anatolian that is my Service Dog and best friend ☺️

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here are some pics of my goat last year his name was Tig. Tig was a boer goat but not a show goat he was just for meat and he got last in his class for almost everything but this year I have Elvis he is a show goat and his coloring looks just like Tig. here is Tig
 

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Maybe he was last, but you got valuable show experience.
yes that is why I still showed commercial goats even though I knew they would lose because I like showing and I know no matter what your animal looks like you can still win showmanship
 
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I also except for this year and last year showed commercial pigs. your pig is supposed to be short and all the champions waddle instead of walk like they can't run if they tried but our commercial pigs were tall and they would run the judge told me that my pig was very athletic. we always got bottom of our class unless we were competing against each others pigs then 1 of us would get last and the other would get 2nd to last except I did good in showmanship I got a call back for that didn't place but made it into the 2nd round.
 

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You can buy a champion but you can't buy showmanship. That is what I think of when I hear that someone payed $4,000 for a gilt now that is paying for a champion. Some people have their kids show their pigs for 4-H I bet that the kid has only seen the pig maybe a week before the show the parent probably trained the pig. once when I was showing my goat there was this boy with a fancy show goat and he looked like he was doing fine (he probably hadn't even seen the goat before) and his dad was yelling at him. like really people the kid is showing not you.
 
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