For some people there favorite memory only comes one time, but, for me I have had four of them. I have been showing market hogs for four year at the county fair. My very first year I had no clue what I was doing but, some of my best friends are some of the best hog showmen in the state of Michigan, so it didn’t take me long to catch on. Fair week is always my favorite week of summer and probably always will be. In July, 2012 I walked into the show ring at the Huron Community Fair for the first time showing a market hog. My nerves were as big as an elephant, my heart was beating so fast, and I still wasn’t 100% sure about what I was doing. Together me and my barrow Axel walked into the ring for our market class immediately I knew that we …show more content…
Together my dad and I and some of the kids I show with went to eight shows before the county fair. We met a lot of new people and most of them became friends because we spent every weekend competing against each other. We ended up have Reserve Champion Duroc Hog at a couple of shows and having 3rd overall hog at one of our favorite shows. When the fair came around I had my sister show two of my hogs at the fair so we didn’t have any animals left at home. We took all four hogs to the county fair, we didn't think we were going to win any market classes this year and that was okay with us, three years in a row that’s pretty good. We started the day with showmanship, we both did well in our divisions but, neither of us won overall showman. We then went in for pen classes, we both ended up winning our classes so we had to find friends to help us show the other hogs. In the final drive we both were in the top three pens, Brynn ended up having the Champion Pen of Hogs, I ended up having the third overall pen. When individual classes came around I knew Brynn’s Duroc was going to win because the judge couldn’t stop complimenting on how he was such a great hog. We both won our individual classes and both ended up in the final drive with each other again. Brynn’s hog was named Grand Champion Hog and my hog ended up being named Reserve Champion Hog. This year was one of our best years, because we had fun doing what we