Age: 8

Grade: 2nd

Hometown: Roanoke, IN

Favorite thing about your champion:
My family bred my hamp gilt

Favorite part about the show:
Seeing all my friends and getting a year lease on a trailer

Favorite drink in the cooler:
Dr. Pepper

Favorite snack in the snack tub
Doritos

Favorite activity to pass the down time at the show:
Playing football and kemps

Favorite restaurant you ate at during the show:
Cracker Barrel aka The Barrel

Favorite hype song:
The Champion

Favorite thing about your hometown:
We have a new virtual sports place called Game On

Favorite thing to do besides showing:
Playing basketball

Favorite subject in school:
Gym

How long of a drive was it?
8 Hours

Favorite thing about the trip?
Playing cornhole

Do you have superstitions?
Listening to my playlist before I show

Favorite show shirt?
Any shirt that’s purple or blue

Favorite product used on your animal?
Wintex White

Favorite celebration restaurant?
Dave and Busters

Who did you enjoy seeing the most at the show?
Seeing all my out of state friends

Favorite gas station food on a road trip:
Doritos and root beer

Tell us a little bit about your champion:
Tootsie came from Thompson Brothers. I love having a Thompson Brothers gilt in the barn. She had a bad attitude at the start and I really had to work with her to calm her down and get her shown right. I'm excited that I get to keep her for a sow and get a litter out of her this winter.

This or That
Tanning Light or Sun Tan
Tanning Light

Shavings or Pellets
Shavings

Gilts or Barrows
Gilts

Purebred or Crossbred
Purebred

Age: 7

Hometown: Roanoke, IN

School: Roanoke Elementary School

Favorite thing to do at shows (besides showing):
Watch the show and play cornhole and football with my buds.

What was the personality of your barrow?
He was a messy eater.  He would get a mouth full of feed and lift his head up to eat it.

The hardest thing about showing pigs is....
To get in front of the judge in a crowd

What's the last thing your parents or supporters tell you before you go in the ring?
To bear down, get their heads up, and stay in front of the judge

Favorite Show Pig Product to Use:
Pink Cheetah

Favorite Song or Band:
Astronaut in the Ocean

Favorite Sport Team:
Oklahoma State Cowboys

Favorite Feature on ThePigPlanet.com:
Placing the Monthly Judging Contest

Age: 6

Hometown: Roanoke, IN (Roanoke Elementary School)

What was your favorite thing about the American Royal?
This was my first year to show at the Royal and I loved it. A couple of my favorite things were: playing football with my buddies and celebratory dinner at Pierpont’s.

What was one thing you tried different with your project this year?
With each set of pigs this year, we tried to get them broke a little earlier and start workingwith them whenever we could. It helps that my brothers Camden and Hayes want to walk pigs and can help, that is until they get distracted.

What is your favorite show product to use?
Pink Cheetah

What is your favorite brand of show jeans or show shoes?
My fish print boots

On the way to the show I am...
Excited to see all my friends

What is one last minute thing you do before entering the ring?
Drink Mt. Dew

Age: 6

Hometown: Roanoke, IN (Roanoke Elementary School)

With this being one of the major shows of the summer, explain how excited were you to take home a Top 5?
SUPER EXCITED! In our trading barn, my dad puts up big pictures of any pig we traded or bred that made Top 5 at a national or state show. I have been wanting to get my picture up in our barn and I was able to do that at this show.

What was something new you tried this year since you were able to be home more often than normal?
My buddy, Lane Rinderer, came to the house a couple times this spring and summer to help me with showing my pigs. He really worked with me on how to keep each of their heads upand how to show the best I could.

What is your favorite show product to use?
Pink Cheetah, a special hair conditioner my dad and I mix up.

When I grow up I want to be....
a pig farmer and boar stud owner. I'd like to have some Durocs, Yorks, maybe a couple Red Belts for my brothers, lots of crosses, and maybe a couple Polands.

Showing animals has helped me to develop......
working as a team. I always say "teamwork makes the dream work". My family does all the work together. Wewouldn't be able to do it without everyone helping each other.

What's your favorite Barn Chore:
feeding!

Who is the person you look to for advice right before you go in the ring for that last minute pep talk or pointer:
My dad, he tells me to keep their head up and bear-down

Favorite Celebration Restaurant after a good day at the show:
Dave and Busters or a restaurant that has good steak and shrimp

Favorite Song or Singer:
Roxanne, my York gilt was named after that song.