My 14 and 15 year old sons are getting a taste of raising animals through FFA in High School. This year they decided to raise pigs. My 4-H days came back to haunt me!! I raised pigs for 3 years and the one that did me in would run away as soon as he was out of the pen. My 14 year old had a similar pig this year except his was at least funny. His pig thought he was a dog and when you went to show her, she would run around, roll in the dirt, and try to get the other pigs to play with her. Needless to say, she irritated the judge and she placed fourth out of six in her class. My 15 year old had a GREAT pig, but 1 1/2 weeks before the show, he came up lame. The judge didn't give him last place even though he was visibly limping and actually stated he could have at least placed 2nd had it not been injured. BUMMER!! I'm proud of them because even though both boys had some trials with their animals, they both stuck with it! Lesson Learned!
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