Kidding around: bright-eyed and bushy tailed

  • Photos/Kyla Hurt
A Scottish Highland named Reba uses her tongue to grab an empty ice cream cone on Sunday, September 26 at the Prairie Land Heritage Museum Steam Show. From Full Moon Farms in Pleasant Hill, Reba was part of the petting zoo/children’s area.
  • Photos/Kyla Hurt
A Scottish Highland named Reba uses her tongue to grab an empty ice cream cone on Sunday, September 26 at the Prairie Land Heritage Museum Steam Show. From Full Moon Farms in Pleasant Hill, Reba was part of the petting zoo/children’s area.
  • Photos/Kyla Hurt
A Scottish Highland named Reba uses her tongue to grab an empty ice cream cone on Sunday, September 26 at the Prairie Land Heritage Museum Steam Show. From Full Moon Farms in Pleasant Hill, Reba was part of the petting zoo/children’s area.
  • Photos/Kyla Hurt
(Left) Thankfully there were a lot of other children around to feed him because two-year-old Finnigan Hurt of Jacksonville would give this guy one pellet at a time, watching how the goat chewed.
  • Trying to be an escape goat.

by Kyla Hurt

Parents and really anyone toting a toddler to this past weekend’s Prairie Land Parents and really anyone toting a toddler to this past weekend’s Prairie Land Heritage Museum Fall Festival and Steam Show know of a slightly (and smartly) segregated land for children to play. There’s a good-sized sand pit, rides in the barrel train pulled by a lawn mower, swings, plastic playground houses, lawn games … and animals for petting.

Llamas, chickens with feathers on their feet, lop-eared rabbits, miniature ponies (which children could also ride for $5), chinchillas and goats. Kids and goats have redeeming social qualities – and I enjoyed my own unending goat puns, even if others thought they were baaaaaad. Regardless, watching the kids (children) feed the pellets of food that they would dig out of an ice cream cone, which was all purchased for $1 … well, it was worth it. I’m not kidding.

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