I grew up on a farm. Never was in FFA, but I was in 4-H for awhile. We didn't really have many rednecks around us. However, we did get out of school for a day in the fall for the local county fair-dubbed "the world's largest county fair". We have had dairy cattle, pigs, and sheep. Dad is also growing some wine grapes now. Helped to castrate quite a few pigs when I was a kid. Never actually did the act-I just held them up by the legs-I let Dad do the dirty work-felt kinda bad about taking their manhood away from them!! But meat tastes better that way!!
Lots of fun childhood memories from the farm! And Brat-pigs are great, but you're right, you don't want to clean up all that shit. Plus-of all the farm animals, hog shit smells the worst by far.