Allison Leitheiser
12 years old
Seventh Grade
When do you do chores? 4 p.m. after school.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is playing with my bunnies, and my least favorite is feeding the bunnies.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Baling straw.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Bridgette falling down on the straw bales after my uncle threw a bale into the hay loft.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? My cow, Cotton Candy, is my show cow, and I’ve gotten to take her to the South Dakota State Fair three times.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. Old McDonald’s farm, with a little bit of all the animals.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Hide and seek – lots of places to hide and getting stuck in the hay loft when Mom and Dad started milking for the night.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Deconstructed egg roll.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Going to Chippewa Falls.
Are you involved in activities? What is your favorite and why? 4-H and FFA – 4-H because I can do any projects I want, and I’m just getting started in FFA.
Bridgette Leitheiser
12 years old
Seventh Grade
When do you do chores? 5 p.m. after chores or twice a day in the summer.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is feeding calves, and my least favorite is feeding rabbits because it takes so long.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like mowing my grandma’s lawn.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When Grandpa Steve would pull the sled with the Ranger.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Brownie, my calf, and Brownie, my rabbit. Brownie, my calf, is a Holstein-Fleckvieh cross heifer that I showed at the county fair. Brownie, the rabbit, is a Polish Doe I show in 4-H and open class rabbit shows.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A pet groomer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. My farm would have dairy cows, bunnies, three dogs and cats.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Hide and seek.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Hamburger hotdish.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Young cooperative trips.
Are you involved in activities? What is your favorite and why? FFA and 4-H – at 4-H, I can show my crafty side and show animals.
Emily Leitheiser
10 years old
Fifth Grade
When do you do chores? Twice a day, every day.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is feeding my rabbits, and my least favorite is feeding calves.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Helping my mom use the Ranger to bring cows up from the pasture.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When my calf, Honey, tried to eat my hair.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Honey, the Jersey calf, is my show calf I got this spring, and Gordy, the rabbit, is my Holland Lop Rabbit and my first bunny.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer or an artist.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. A farm with bunnies and dairy cattle on it.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Run away from Buster, our 6-month-old Great Pyrenees puppy.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? My mom’s spaghetti.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Go to the South Dakota State Fair.
Connor Leitheiser
6 years old
First Grade
When do you do chores? I do chores twice a day with Grandpa in the summers and on the weekends during the school year.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is feeding my cows, and my least favorite is feeding calves.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Helping Dad grind feed.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When Grandpa pulls us around the farm on a sled behind the 4-wheeler.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Sprinkles the calf because I like him.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. Like Grandpa’s. I would have milk cows, stock cows and a grain farm.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Stinky Pig (the card game like Old Maid).
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Smoked Gouda mac and cheese because I like cheese so much.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Going on young cooperative trips and going to the South Dakota State Fair.
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