Goat Whisperer
Herd Master
As many of you know, we attended the NC State Fair last weekend. It has been a rough month for us. Hurricane Michael throwing us a hard blow just before fair. Loss of power for 4 days, my brand new clippers breaking, one of our LGD's near death and needing emergency vet care, broken fences, you name it... we went through it. Last week we honestly didn't know if we would even make it.
We were determined though!
Our State fair is massive. The dairy goat show is ADGA sanctioned. There were over 1100 entries
We entered 26 goats, but brought 2 "extras" along with us also (One is Lilly, we brought her so that we could change her bandages and monitor). Over half the herd was prepped in the last three days before the show.
We were worried that the goats may not all get shown, due to the show order. Lamanchas and Nigerians would likely overlap (two rings are going at once). This has happened in the past and have had to scratch because of this. We are so blessed to have wonderful goats peeps and family! People who were running goats ringside, showing, and even carrying my Nigerian Jr kids as if they were their own. I cannot thank those people enough! A true blessing! I love our NC goat community!
Even those that we often show against pitched in and helped when we needed it most
We are very humbled and blessed!
We always love hearing judges comments. As any breeder, we are always critiquing our goats and talking about strengths/weaknesses. It is encouraging when the judges say the same thing we have said. Still being so new to the goat showing world (2 yrs) we as so proud of our animals. One doe (Zephyr) was mentioned to be perfect in every way, except her teats (long story there, not entirely her fault). Our Recorded Grade Tiffany- the judge stated "this doe is the scorecard". We had several GCH and RCH goats, 2nd Place Lamancha Dairy herd, and many more 1st/2nds. We are very proud with our Nigerians, Lamanchas, and Recorded Grades!
We are still trying to compile pics and get individual placings.
We were determined though!
Our State fair is massive. The dairy goat show is ADGA sanctioned. There were over 1100 entries
We entered 26 goats, but brought 2 "extras" along with us also (One is Lilly, we brought her so that we could change her bandages and monitor). Over half the herd was prepped in the last three days before the show.
We were worried that the goats may not all get shown, due to the show order. Lamanchas and Nigerians would likely overlap (two rings are going at once). This has happened in the past and have had to scratch because of this. We are so blessed to have wonderful goats peeps and family! People who were running goats ringside, showing, and even carrying my Nigerian Jr kids as if they were their own. I cannot thank those people enough! A true blessing! I love our NC goat community!
We always love hearing judges comments. As any breeder, we are always critiquing our goats and talking about strengths/weaknesses. It is encouraging when the judges say the same thing we have said. Still being so new to the goat showing world (2 yrs) we as so proud of our animals. One doe (Zephyr) was mentioned to be perfect in every way, except her teats (long story there, not entirely her fault). Our Recorded Grade Tiffany- the judge stated "this doe is the scorecard". We had several GCH and RCH goats, 2nd Place Lamancha Dairy herd, and many more 1st/2nds. We are very proud with our Nigerians, Lamanchas, and Recorded Grades!
We are still trying to compile pics and get individual placings.