Maddy finding her place at the Farm Show 2013

Maddy was very busy at the farm show this year. It is so fun to watch her in this environment, this is an area that Maddy has a passion for. From the time that she could pick up a pencil she would draw animals. When she started reading she gravitated to animal and science books. She researches and develops PowerPoint presentations in her spare time about animals. In her world there is no other TV channel than Animal Planet. She is a little entrepreneur, always working. She is the neighborhood pet sitter and fills her calendar with her "jobs."

 

 

Maddy with her show bunny. This is Almond, she is a Chocolate colored Polish Rabbit.  She might be having babies in the near future. Let her (us)  know if you would like to purchase one in the future. Maddy is working on her plan now for her 4-H project...and she came up with the name for her little rabbitry "Madelyn's Urban bunnies"

 

 Lori's daughter Julie helping Maddy with her showmanship skills.

 

Lori, Maddy's 4-H leader giving her a walk through of all the different breeds of rabbits at the Farm Show.

 

Here is Maddy a couple days later teaching Nana and Papa about the different breeds at the Farm Show, while including other people in the conversation as they walked around the cages.

 

She volunteered to sell programs at the information desk one day. She was hustling some programs and would yell " Get your programs for $1, $1 programs support 4-H" Who can turn down a passionate little girl selling programs? Not many people actually, she went through a ton of them and people were giving her donations without taking a program just because they liked her enthusiasm.

 

 



Several days Maddy worked in the rabbit area. 

 

So we took a break and grabbed some healthy food like fried mozzarella cubes, milkshakes and fries. We stopped by this area near the food court it was the veterinarian department for Penn State. Maddy talked with Ms.Deborah  a Veterinarian. They spent at least 45 minutes talking eye ball to eye ball after they looked at the x-rays. Maddy was very engaged and asked great questions.  They talked about foal and rabbit reproduction among other topics.

 

  

Here, Maddy is giving her PowerPoint presentation on rabbits. She worked on this over Christmas break just for fun so it was neat for her to be able to present it in a large crowd.

 

 

 

 

 

She made a Jeopardy game at the end of her presentation. She asked volunteers to come up on stage and answer her questions.  Everyone was rewarded with candy. 

 

We had a blast at the farm show. One day we were there for over 12 hours and when I told Maddy it was time to go she said "It's time to go already" she had no idea how much time had passed.

We were sad to see it end!

Maddy has a rabbit show coming up Feb 2nd...so be on the lookout for pictures!