Jeremy Clarkson welcomed a new addition onto Diddly Squat Farm despite Kaleb Cooper insisting they should be sold for meat
Jeremy Clarkson brazenly dismissed Kaleb Cooper’s guidance at Diddly Squat Farm. The former Top Gear host recently chose to purchase 29 goats for his Chipping Norton farm.
Jeremy anticipated the creatures would manage to clear roughly six acres of his property, something he reckoned would be valued at approximately £60,000. Having splashed out merely £290 on the animals, he was convinced it would represent “one hell of a return”.
Even better, he claims the goats are “children friendly” unlike certain conventional farmyard creatures, reports Gloucestershire Live.
Jeremy maintains lambs offer “heartwarming ruralness” if he’s “lucky” but can frequently be discovered “rotting” or “full of maggots”.
Jeremy quips that it’s sufficient to suggest a tour of his farm would give youngsters “mental health problems”.
“That’s where you’re wrong because I have 29 goats,” he pens in his book Diddly Squat: The Farmer’s Dog.
He went on: “I bought them as castrated boy kids about 15 months ago and Kaleb thought I’d taken leave of my senses because you can’t get cheese from a boy. He urged me to fatten them up and then sell them as soon as possible for meat.”
Jeremy nevertheless remained determined to use the goats for clearing brambles from an enormous stretch of Diddly Squat.
He clarified: “I reckoned I could put the goats in there and they could rush about like a fleet of horned lawnmowers.”
Jeremy Clarkson has shared some hilarious insights into his life as a farmer, including the antics of his young goats. Initially, the kids had to be bottle-fed with formula, which Jeremy admits was “expensive”, and they had to learn about electric fences in a way he found “quite funny”.
However, once they were let loose on the land, they cleared an acre in just one day.
He said: “Their work rate was phenomenal. It’s like they’re Polish. In just one day, they’d cleared a quarter of an acre and they were c******g all over the place, which is better for the soil than say, not having animals.”
Jeremy also praised the goats for being family-friendly animals. He compared them favourably to dogs, saying they “don’t perform disgusting sex acts” and “don’t rot”.
However, it wasn’t all fun and games. The downside of the goats, according to Jeremy, was that they would “headbutt” him when they were younger.
To make matters worse, he says they would “go for my b******s”.
Fans of Clarkson’s Farm watched as Jeremy introduced the goats to the farm. The hit Amazon Prime Video series has followed Jeremy’s journey into the world of farming.
This all started after he bought Curdle Hill Farm in Oxfordshire in 2008. He transformed the farm into Diddly Squat in 2020 after the previous tenant retired. The farm predominantly grew a rotation of barley, rapeseed and wheat.
