SHEER DELIGHT

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SHEER DELIGHT

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RICHMOND – The Wollard girls – Amanda, 12; and Nevaeh, 11 – know their animals. Amanda explains how to raise goats. “We have some goat food that we feed them, that my sister and my dad go get; I don’t want to go there because I don’t like the smell. We get them food, and my sister and I feed and water them,” she says. “We also have a metal cannister inside of their hut to put food in so they can have food throughout the day.” Beyond feed, there is care, she says while preparing for the goat and sheep shows at the Ray County Fair. “We work with them. We wash them at the house, and I like to adore them and pet them and touch them. We sell boys. We do not sell any of the girls. We mostly buy them,” Amanda says, giggling while being nuzzled by Patches. Or is it Lily? She has no trouble telling them apart. “We usually sell them here at the Ray County Fair. And if we don’t sell them here, we try to sell them someplace else.” “My two wethers, I’ve raised them since they were ‘babybabies,…

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