What Was Your First Farm Animal?

Reader Contribution by Brenna Long
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Growing up I didn’t just read about animals in books. I lived and played among them, but I didn’t have a farm animal until I was a third grader.

For years I had tagged along with my dad to Orscheln Farm & Home to buy dog food, really only to pet the spring ducks and chicks huddled in the cages. My dad would always holler at me that he was leaving, and I quickly said bye to my little friends.

Then when I was a third grader, my family packed up and moved 15 miles away, to what I called the “Longaway” farm. I knew all the open space meant I could have more animals. I begged to have my own fuzzy duckling. He bought six.

Once they were home, I got the task of making sure they had food, water, straw and a heat lamp. Besides more responsibility, the little ducks added entertainment to my day. All summer I would go down and just sit with them. They climbed on top of my head, ate bugs I caught and took naps in the straw.

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