Amara Bolin
14 years old
Eighth grade
When do you do chores? Whenever I can when I have school off.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is watching babies being born. My least favorite is getting cows back in.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Moving calves.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When I used to live at our guest barn and could wake up and look out over our loft windows directly into the barn.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Seka because she had a heifer that our friends named. Plus, she is our only Jersey-Swiss cross.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I would like to be a farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have 200 cows, two cats, three dogs, a milking parlor and employees to help me milk. Then I would have an automatic calf feeder for calves and bottle feeders in the calf huts.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? None.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Ramen noodles on Dad’s cooking nights; mac and cheese when Mom cooks.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Traveling road trips. I enjoyed it when we went to South Dakota and Colorado.
Are you involved in activities? What is your favorite and why? Babysitting and helping with kids at church and 4-H.
Vance Bolin
11 years old
Sixth grade
When do you do chores? Just when I’m asked.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is anything with a tractor. My least favorite is hand scraping manure.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Baling hay in the summer.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. I’m not sure.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Our cat, Quarterback, because she is really cute and she has had lots of litters of kittens.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I don’t know yet but some options I am thinking about are football player or ag finance business.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have three separate barns: one for calves up to 1 year, one for heifers and one for cows. I would have 600 cows, three herding dogs for pasture cows and as many cats as I can fit in my house.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Basketball in the feed alley.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Sante Fe chicken and rice with chocolate milk.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Road trips, especially going to Alabama and the Gulf Coast.
Judah Bolin
Age 7
First grade
When do you do chores? Anytime I can.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? Feeding cows with Dad is my favorite, and watering calves is my least favorite.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Putting sand in the stalls.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When a calf licked me when I was helping feed her a bottle.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Mavis, the kitten, because my friend named it and Siri, the calf.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have 6,000 cows, seven dogs and 900 chickens with a parlor to milk, lots of tractors and white and brown calf huts with bucket holders. I would have auto feeders for the morning, but I will feed at night. I will press a button for the food to automatically come out. I will have a barn with Jerseys, a calf barn, a barn of Holsteins and a barn of steers. I will have 10 calves by the barn with a sign that says: free to pet. At my house, I will have two pet dogs, a pet toad, nine cats and pet frogs.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Football in the feed alley.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Ramen noodles when Dad cooks; mac and cheese when Mom cooks.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Road trips. I liked it when we visited the East Coast last summer.
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