Teen loves the farm life ... and her goats
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Steve Lopez talks to an 18-year-old goat farmer named Kimberly Barnes, who brought her animals to the Orange County Fair.
Barnes is a 4-H member who’s also president of her Tehachapi chapter of the Future Farmers of America. She had loaded her seven goats onto a trailer back home, hitched the trailer to a Dodge Ram pickup with a diesel engine and a stick shift and driven to the fair on her own.I’ve known teenagers who couldn’t get out of bed on their own. ...When Barnes arrived, her Saanen and Alpine goats could not have been happier. She checked their food and water and scratched their ears. ‘Mama loves you,’ she said.It was a white Saanen named Kit that took Best in Show, and Kalani and Carmen San Diego were taking home hardware as well.Barnes said she was thrilled, especially since it was her last competition before she leaves for Iowa State University this month to begin her freshman year. She wants to be a veterinarian.
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