Adrianna Schneider
8 years old
Second grade
When do you do chores? I do chores on the weekends during school. During the summer I help all the time.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? I like to walk my cattle. I like to walk Elizabeth. The thing I don’t like to do is wash the show cows. I don’t like to help with hay — the pokey stuff.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like to help my dad milk sometimes. I like to color and do art, too.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. I like all the things I do to help my mom and dad.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Tell us about it. I have two favorite animals — Salem and Elizabeth. I showed Salem last year and Elizabeth is my show calf this year. Salem is too big for me this year. I like them because they are really good cows. Elizabeth is kind of naughty but if I tap her on the nose with the lead rope she is good. I can’t show Salem anymore because she is too big and I can’t reach her topline.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a horse farmer and a cow farmer because horses and cows are fun.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. It would have cows on one side and horses on the other side. I would turn the green shed into our calf barn instead of a shed and we could build hutches in there. Then we don’t have to feed calves in the snow and they don’t get sick and if they get pneumonia then we can put them in the barn.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like to play Monopoly with my family and friends, but my brother doesn’t understand it.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? I like spaghetti and I love steak. I don’t really eat vegetables. I only like corn on the cob and green beans. For fruit I like grapes.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? I like going to cow shows with my family.
August Schneider (right) pictured with his friend, Weston Broeder
5 years old
Kindergarten
When do you do chores? I think at 6:30 a.m. because I don’t want to wake up really early. I only wake up at 9:30 a.m., but today was 6:30 because I didn’t want to miss the cow show.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? I just like to milk Cucumber and wash her. Cucumber normally runs away but not really fast — I can catch her a lot. She likes to play with me because I’m her owner. My mom and dad help me catch her sometimes because they don’t want me to break my neck walking Cucumber. I don’t like to milk Thunderstorm because she is naughty to me.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I just like to help Mom and Dad do everything.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When Cucumber was born. She was born at 6:30 on Tuesday when I was a baby. I remember that.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? I like the roosters but only the kind that don’t crow, like cock-a-doodle-do. The quiet hens are my favorite. They are kind of naughty, but I still like them.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a paleontologist. I really want to know why the dinosaurs passed away, that’s why I want to be a paleontologist to make sure the dinosaur bones are still here so I can still remember them.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. Dinosaurs would be on my farm — only the herbivores, not the mean dinosaurs. The mean ones are carnivores. I’m going to have a Brachiosaurus, a Stegosaurus, a Triceratops, a Diplodocus and an Argentinosaurus.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like to play Dino Fury.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but I don’t like the crusts — crusts are yucky for me. I tasted crust one time, and it tasted yucky.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? I like to play in the game room at the pizza shop. I can get toys and prizes from two machines, but you have to earn tickets from games first.
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