John Oxford
May 14, 2008 10:55 pm
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MOULTRIE — Two students involved with livestock shows are using their prize money to help others get involved with the shows too.
Stacy Cook of Scuttabuggin’ Farms said her children, Stephanie, 14, and David, 11, started showing hogs in 2005 and 2006, respectively. When they started showing goats in 2007, they found out some of their friends could not buy or keep goats to raise them and show them.
As a way to help their friends, Cook said, Stephanie and David decided to use their winnings to buy two extra goats, which their friends could raise and show.
Cook said she and her husband, Dean, were enthusiastic about the children’s idea to use their prize money to help others. They thought it was very unselfish of them to use their earnings that way.
“We were really proud they came up with the idea,” Cook said.
The school’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) have chosen two students who will show the goats in September, Cook said. The two sponsored goats will stay at Scuttabuggin’ Farms. The Cooks decided to allow the FFA to choose the two sponsored students because they know the students, their desires and their needs better than the Cooks would know.
Along with Stephanie and David’s prize money, Cook said the Downtown Moultrie Association donated $300 in March to help with feed for the goats. That will allow the two students who were chosen to have a goat to show and its food for the whole year.
The program is the first of its kind in the county dealing with goats; the FFA has a similar cattle program in place.
Anyone who would like to help with the goat sponsorship program can contact Scuttabuggin’ Farms at 891-5427.
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