Humans of FFA State Convention

 

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FFA Member Stephanie Murphy recounts an interesting experience with one of her pigs: “I was giving my pig medicine, and it was the oral kind so it wasn’t a shot or anything, and so I leaned over to put it in it’s mouth and squirted the syringe, the pig moved it’s mouth and the entire syringe of medicine went all over my face.”

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FFA Member Siana Barrett elaborates on a particularly stubborn cow on her ranch: “I was in the process of milking my Jersey cow, I had my head there, underneath her, and all of a sudden I’m hearing ‘boom boom boom boom boom’ as her knee is going up and hitting me on the side of the head. So I grabbed a rope and fashioned a hobble to keep her back legs down, and so instead she lifts both of her back feet off the ground and wraps her head around the stantion trying to bite me. Three hours later I finally get her milked.”

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FFA Member Manny Marquez recalls a hog wild memory from a kindergarten field trip: “I was in kindergarten on the usually yearly trip where we go to the fair to see the animals, and of course, my best friend Alex and a couple others ran into the show barn on show day. Inside there were three wild pigs and all the boys ended up getting hit by each pig, one got knocked against the gates, one got dragged across the barn until one of the teachers grabbed the pig and threw it, and the last boy got rescued by the supervisor before running into anything.”

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