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Hi, my name is Taylor Zell, and I won Grand Championship Market Swine at the Verde Valley
Fair. The thing that I do mostly, most people think that you only have to show in Showmanship.
You have to do it in confirmation too, because in confirmation, the judge likes to ask to
see your pig, to be able to actually look at him. See if he's a good pig or not. In
a pig, the judge looks for like their bone structure, their size, their weight, if they
have good weight or not, and they looks at the cuts of meat, like the hams. See if he's
muscular, or if he's fatty. If he's fat, he's not going to be a good pig to sell, and if
he's muscular, he'll be a good pig. My pig is a two hundred and forty eight pound Blue
Butt. He came from Castillo Show Pigs, who are going to Nationals now, because they got
two Grand Champions, at two different fairs. He's a very good pig. He's got a bent nose.
I don't know how that happened, but he's got really good structure. He's got good hams.
He's muscular, and basically, I just try to work him everyday, so he doesn't build up
a bunch of fat. When you win a prize, you get, you get like butterflies in your stomach.
Like, you get butterflies in your stomach, like if you're going to like a big baseball
game, or some sports game, but you just get really happy, and you just like want to keep
doing it more and more, and keep winning. Well it's, especially right before, whenever
it's like leading up to the end of it, you think you're going to pass out. It's just
such a great feeling, when you finally win it. It's just really great after all this
time. When you win, you feel, you feel scared,and you want to keep winning, and it feels good.
I won third place in the Heavy Class. I won Grand Champion Market Swine. I won fourth
place in the Medium Class.