A rugby team from Isère mobilized to help a goat breeder

The pro rugby players from Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère) were not in training on Tuesday February 8.

The athletes had not decided to skip school, but found themselves in Succieu on a farm to lend a hand to a goat farmer who suffers from shoulder tendinopathy.

Laurence Vallier, who is the head of the Saint-Bernard goat farm with her husband, is no longer able to work until she has undergone an operation.

Her husband tries to do all the chores, but daily life is tough.

Farmers have launched a call for solidarity on social networks, explains

.

" It is heartwarming "

A situation that moved the forwards coach, Grégoire Pintiaux.

“I buy my cheese at the farm stall, in the market.

When I learned that she was in difficulty, I thought that instead of training at the stadium, we could help, ”he told Le

.

The athletes took the opportunity to work on their group cohesion.

And the athletes have been busy: cutting wood, setting up a nursery for the kids, cleaning a barn, bottle-feeding the calves, renovating a fence… “It's heart-warming.

The time we will save today is not measurable, ”assured the operator at

.

His wife is due for surgery on Tuesday.

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