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Jessica's Animals By Jessica
On my farm we have 5 different animals. We have cows, horses, chickens, cats, and a dog. We have beef cows. The colors of the cows are white,brown,tan,and black. They are all females because we sell the males. We don't have a lot, we have about 30 some cows. Two cows have horns.

This is my calf.

We have one horse and we are taking care of another one too. My horse is called Chestnut. She is a brown horse. I don't remember what kind of horse she is. The horse we are taking care of is Annie. She is an Arabian horse. We bred my horse so she is going to be pregnant soon I hope. I love riding Chestnut. We are trying to break Annie, but she is hard and psycho. I ride my horse everywhere on my farm. She is fat because the only way to ride her is too feed her.We shake an icecream pail half full of grain and she comes and we put the lead on her. Chestnut is scared of loud noises.

This is my horse Chestnut.

Now to my chickens. I have 212 laying hens and 1 rooster. The rooster is very mean. When you kick at him he will jump at you. So when I feed the chickens I always have to bring a stick or something. The chickens aren't very exciting.

This is the rooster.

This is my cat Angel.

I will talk about my cats now. We have 7 cats. Their names are Angel, she is my cat, Tammy is my sister's cat, Sparkles is my other sister's cat, Rocky is my brother's cat and there is also Friska, Bubbles and a wild cat. I call him Will and my mom calls it Ralph. I think that is a stupid name.

This is Scamp.

Now to my favorite animal on the farm. Scamp my puppy. He is Border Collie/Blue Healer. He just turned one on February the 3. He likes to bite your hand and wrestle. He shows his teeth when you point your finger at him. He is a great guard dog. When a vehicles comes on the yard, he will bark at them. If he doesn't know them he will growl and show his teeth to who ever comes that he doesn't know. He pees right when we get home because he is excited. Scamp chases cows. He has only gotten hurt once because a cow hit him with it's head. He also chases vehicles if he comes to the end of the road with us. He bites at the horses tails. Chesnut doesn't do anything but Annie turns around and chases him. He steals the horse's food. Scamp is our fifth dog. My first dog was Bess, she was shot. My second dog was Crinkles. She got porcupine quills so many times that we eventually had to shoot her. The next 2 stories happened because of our neighbors. My third dog was Rex, he got a disease so we had to shoot him. My fourth dog was Bear and he got hit by a car,so now we have Scamp. I like Scamp the best out of all the dogs! Scamp is a very great dog. Scamp can be dumb once in a while. When I throw the ball he always misses it when he runs to it. He likes it when we chase him when he has the ball in his mouth. It is very hard to get the ball away from him. He runs very fast, that is why we can't get the ball away from him. When ever we play on the ice in winter it is very hard to skate. It is hard because he bites your hand. When we go sledding he bites the front of the sled that slows it down. So when ever he bites the front of the sleigh I have to yell at him. He is very weird but he is a great dog too. I hope nothing happens to him like the other dogs. So far he has never been to the neighbors. He has never met the neighbors dog and that is very good that he hasn't. Well , he has meet one of their dogs but he never saw it again. I hope that he grows up to be an old dog and not die when he is young like my other dogs. I couldn't live without a dog. Well you know dogs are my favorite animals on the farm and one of my favorites in the world. The other favorite animal is a wolf, they are big and a kind of wild dog. I love my dog Scamp.