Anthony Naff, 8, dives to catch a chicken during the livestock scramble held at the Miami County Fair located just outside Troy, OH on Sunday, August 11, 2013. 

This Sunday evening I was lucky enough to photograph a livestock scramble at the Miami County Fair located just outside Troy Ohio for The Piqua Daily Call. When I arrived at the grandstand in the fair grounds, I was asked if I had ever really been around farm animals - I said that I hadn't been in very many intimately close situations with such creatures. Things got personal pretty quickly. I had a ton of fun with this assignment, nothing beats watching people run down farm animals in front of a large cheering crowd.

The evening started off with younger children chasing chickens and ducks. After a few rounds, teenagers took the ring and began chasing small pigs.

Teens with greasy oil from the elbow down chase small pigs in front of the grandstand at the Miami County Fair.

The most entertaining part of this portion of the show was that the teens had to catch these nimble pigs with oily hands, which made the pigs that much harder to hold on to.

Teens grease their arms up in a small tub of oil as they prep themselves to catch pigs at the Livestock Scramble.

A pig is dragged into the white circle at the Livestock Scramble, thus completing the round for the participant.

Near the middle of the Scramble, children from the crowd were allowed to partake in a large round of catching chickens.

Children from the audience corner two chickens during the open round of the Livestock Scramble.

The last round of the evening featured older teens (up take age 18) catching young calfs. All the livestock before this round weren't too formidable, but the calfs certainly warranted a degree of caution. By this point, the grandstand was quite dark save for artificial lights.

A teen struggles to hold on to an angry calf after the animal knocked the helmet off another participant.