Kids Corner: The Turners

Kinley Turner
11 years old
Fifth grade

When do you do chores? I do chores after school and on the weekends.

What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is helping feed calves, and I don’t think I have a least favorite chore.

What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Feeding calves.

Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. A fun memory is walking and spending time with Callie Mae, one of my favorite cows, when she was a calf.

What is your favorite animal on your farm? I can’t say I have a favorite animal on the farm because I love them all. But, if I have to choose, I’d say Bo, my rabbit, because I love to see how curious he is when I let him out, and because he loves me a lot. If I let him out and he had to choose between my siblings or I, he would choose me.

What do you want to be when you grow up? When I grow up, I want to have a career with something to do with animals, health and teaching others.

If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. If I had my own farm, I`d want it to look like a zoo, just without cages, so there would be a bunch of animals running free.

What is your favorite game to play on the farm? One of my favorite games to play on the farm is jumping from hay bale to hay bale with my brother and sister.

What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? I don’t have a favorite meal because there are so many meals I love, but if I have to choose, I`d say my dad’s venison.

What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? My favorite thing to do off the farm with my family is camping, fishing, hunting and tractor pulls.

Leo Turner
9 years old
Third grade

When do you do chores? After school and on the weekends.

What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is helping to clean cattle pens, and my least favorite is helping Mom in the garden.

What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Helping Dad work in the shop on equipment.

Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Driving the tractor for the first time by myself.

What is your favorite animal on your farm? The cow named Piper would be my favorite cow. She would follow me around and let me lead her. I was training her to go to the fair.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a farmer just like my dad.

If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. It would look just like this one but maybe just cash crops instead of milking cows.

What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Bale jumping.

What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? My favorite meal would have to be pizza and taco dip.

What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Camping, tractor pulling and going hunting with Dad.

Mila Turner
7 years old
Second grade

When do you do chores? After school and on the weekends.

What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is feeding calves so I can play with the cats in the calf barn. My least favorite would be scraping the barn.

What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Riding in the tractors.

Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When my dad still had his Honda four-wheeler to go on rides.

What is your favorite animal on your farm? Callie Mae would be my favorite cow. She is a sweetheart that took reserve champion as a yearling and then grand champion as a cow at the county fair. She is my baby.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a teacher when I grow up.

If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have pigs, cows, horses and tractors.

What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Bale jumping.

What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Meatloaf is my favorite meal.

What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Hunting with Dad and camping.