I have to say the kids have the best grandma ever. This was the first year that Belle and Brant was old enough to show Pigs. I absolutly love it, pigs have a personality that just make you smile. We spent the week in ferron camping at the grounds. The kids love it because for 5 days they really dont have to listen to mom they just come find me when there hungry and are tired. I just sat around and talked with good friends, played bingo, danced, just relaxed. 
We started out going to get 6 pigs but then it turned into 5, so we were feeding them and 3 of them were so small everyone thought we wouldnt make weight. They need to weigh 230 at weigh in at the show. So how we ended up with 4 is that. We had the cutest red pig it would sit on its behind to eat always when it was little but as it got bigger it stilled did it. Come to find out it was missing a vitamin so we decided to take the pig out of the show. It is now still getting fed out so we can pack it up.... Ok so back to the others 2 were gaining weight and 2 were not. So the 2 we weighed the first part of june and had 80 pounds to put on them. We fed those pigs twinkies, cake mix, eggs anything sweet that wasnt chocolate. So at the weigh in we pulled those pigs in at 237 and 242. Needless to say I will NEVER eat a twinkie again. We did really good in the show, Belle took 7th overall in the star class for the boy pigs. Way to go for the first show. Brant had a hard class he didnt make it to the star but he was the one away from going to the starclass. His class had the both grand champion, 1 reserved champion. So for him to go out right before was good. Bowdie took one of the smaller ones and still got a blue ribbon. Austin took the 4th one for us and did Ok for being the smallest pig...
I thought when belle sold her pig she would have a hard time but she was just happy to do the stock show.. We loved the experience and cant wait till next year...
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