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Article: Rent-a-goat just for kids
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- September 10, 2008
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OXFORD - Rather than take leadership outdoor courses to build
self esteem and responsibility, Vicky Drew of Denmark believes
children can learn the same through raising and showing dairy goats.
That's why the University of Maine Cooperative Extension's Oxford
County 4-H now has a program to rent dairy goats to children ages 9
to 18 who want to learn competitive dairy goat showmanship.
"You don't actually have to have a goat anymore," said Drew, the
4-H youth goat show coordinator and dairy goat leasing program
director.
While watching children dressed wholly in white or off-white
parade dairy goats of varying size and color around a livestock ring
on Sunday inside the new 4-H building at the ...