Goats for PNG

Goats go to PNG




Friday, 15/10/2010 from ABC



A north-west Queensland goat producers in Australia says he's seeing an increasing demand from Papua New Guinea for live animals.



John Wharton, from Runnymead Station, says he'll export a few thousand live goats to PNG by year's end.



He first started running goats on his place seven years ago as a form of controlling prickly acacia, but says he's having a good live exporting year.



"I had a phone call last week about a possible order into New Guinea, a lot of goats out of Townsville, so that'd be good," he says.



"That's the sort of meat and the sort of animals they can handle too. They can't handle a lot of big animals like cattle unless they're set up like Indonesia is.



"They're talking four or five thousand, so it might be a bit different