A young adult female wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans stands outdoors with a juvenile baby goat in a rural setting, surrounded by grass and dirt under bright daylight. 4:52
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A farm where baby goats nap in your arms

Baby goats are built for bouncing. At Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine, they would rather fall asleep on you. more

Hope and Chris run the farm, where around 60 goat kids are born every spring. The couple likes to say goats come into the world ready to leap. They also think people should take joy wherever they can find it, so they invited hundreds of people to come and hold the kids.

Visitors settle in with the goats, and the leaping stops. A white kid in a pink collar rests on one woman's lap. Others fall asleep in people's arms, as if someone pulled out their batteries.

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A white kid in a pink collar settles on a woman's lap at Sunflower Farm Creamery.

That's the part people came for. Many of the visitors felt it was therapy for the soul, and it shows on their faces. The kids look just as comfortable, which is saying something for an animal born to jump.

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Baby goats are built for bouncing.

Not every kid is sleepy. One presses close to a dark-haired woman's face and nuzzles her cheek, and she gives a small smile.

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A goat kid nuzzles a woman's cheek as she holds the little goat close.

The grown-ups go soft too. A man in a cap and glasses holds a little one against his chest and grins. Plenty of the people here have never done anything like this before.

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A man in a cap and glasses smiles with a little one held to his chest.

One woman can't stop at a goat. She ends up holding a baby goat and a small orange kitten at the same time. It is a slow afternoon on the farm, and the kids are in no hurry to wake up.