Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Photo by Nancy Allen/The Daily Standard

A baby goat sucks on Theresa Howick's pinky recently at the Howick family farm north of Celina. Howick is one of a growing number of people locally and in Ohio raising meat goats for youths' 4-H projects and ethnic and religious populations in the United States.

Related online story:
Even before she opens the barn door, Theresa Howick can hear the baby goats inside calling to her.
Once she enters, all eyes are on her. A few of the babies that have escaped their enclosures trot up to her. She picks up one and it sucks her finger. [More]
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