Huck!

This is so neat! Click here to check out the story the Lancaster Eagle Gazette did on Huck and his 4-H boy! :-D We're so happy to hear lovable little Huck is going to be a pet after his career as a 4-H show goat. :-)

Kelton did such a great job training Huck and getting him ready for the fair. We enjoyed watching both Kelton and his sister show this year. They both did amazing jobs with their goat projects!!

I'll post pictures and write about watching our goat kids show at the Fairfield County Fair soon!

Pet, not processing, is fate of one goat at Junior Fair Livestock Show

BY MORGAN DAY • THE EAGLE-GAZETTE STAFF • OCTOBER 16, 2010

LANCASTER -- Kelton French didn't expect his goat, Huck, to walk away from the Junior Fair Livestock Sale and into the arms of a stranger who would take him home as a pet.

Kelly Robberts, administrative deputy at the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office, now is Huck's owner and plans to pair him up with her lonesome pet goat named Shaggy. The sheriff's office bids on animals every year to promote the fair and support the children involved, she said.But that's what happened Friday afternoon when Kelton showed the 6-month-old white-and-brown goat, bought for $325.

But Huck's outcome is unlikely for animals shown at the fair, as many are bought and processed for their meat.

"It's kind of a surprise to me someone bought him and he's not going to die," Kelton said after the show.

It was the 10-year-old Liberty Union student's first year showing at the Fairfield County Fair, and it hadn't started off very well, said his mom, Renee French. One of Kelton's market chickens died after being weighed in, she said.

"So this has made it a very positive ending to what started off as a not very positive fair," Renee said, adding she and her family are grateful to the sheriff's office for bidding on the goat.

She, too, is pleased Huck will live on as someone's pet.

"I think he will adapt very well to being a friend to another goat," Renee said. "It'll be a good home for him. He's got the right personality to match up with another goat."

Robberts, who took Huck home Friday, had wanted to find a companion for Shaggy, whose brother had died last year. She even went as far as to put a singles-type ad on Craigslist.org. Robberts laughs when she recalls the ad, whose meaning was misconstrued, causing website officials to remove it.

The sheriff's office employee is elated to finally have a friend for Shaggy and to make Kelton's day.

"I'm just thrilled," Robberts said, adding that the sheriff's office also bought rabbits and turned them over to the young girl who raised them.