Foal finds maternal attention of the goat variety
Lisa Dicamillo helps a foal nurse off of Vickie the goat after the mare died soon after the foal was born. Dicamillo, who raises horses at her Golden Hills Ranch northwest of Fruita, put the goat and the foal together in one pen for convenience and noticed that the foal had learned on his own to nurse from the goat.
Dean Humphrey
Lisa Dicamillo helps a foal nurse off of Vickie the goat after the mare died soon after the foal was born. Dicamillo, who raises horses at her Golden Hills Ranch northwest of Fruita, put the goat and the foal together in one pen for convenience and noticed that the foal had learned on his own to nurse from the goat.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
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