2. I started working for my neighbor back in the spring of
2005 when I was only in seventh grade and he farms
1,300 acres and has 2,000 hogs and about four hundred
cattle at any given time. Also Since my boss went out to
California for the week I had to take care of it all and I
can honestly say I didn’t let one animal die.
3. I have been grinding feed ever since I started seven
years ago which may seem monotonous but for each
one of the 25 of loads of feed I ground over spring
break produces enough feed to feed out seven hogs or
1400 pounds of meat and the average American eats 50
pounds of pork a year so every load equates to
approximately all the pork a person eats for 28 years.
Makes me think I help to keep food in mouths more then
the average person.
4. These are some of the animals that were born over
break. The calf was born out of a first calf heifer and had
I had to pull the calf, on top of that the cow was trying
beat me to a pulp.
5. This is the equipment that I serviced on Tuesday of
spring break. These are only several of the tractors on
the farm.
6. These are three pipe racks that I built and painted over
spring break. It seemed like it took longer to paint them
then it took to weld it all together.
