Pocket-money starts a goat farm
It was a midterm to remember for 11-year-old farmer James Newell with the arrival of seven kid goats on his farm in Corrandulla.
Last year the fifth-class student at Corrandulla National School put his pocket money towards the purchase of six female goats. With the arrival of a male puck six months ago came several kids, all in the space of a week.
“The fact he was on holidays from school and was around for the kids’ births was fantastic and he has been mucking out for them every day since,” his father, Enda Newell told The Tuam Herald.
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