One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

That was a long explanation of shows...thank you and good job. I don't think I have ever seen a youth show out here but then I don't show, I only learn through listening to my friends and asking a lot of questions. I have shown a few goats for others, but none of mine. I do know that our fairs pay next to nothing for winning and many of them don't even have sanctioned shows anymore as there aren't enough goats entered to make a class; very sad. Glad to see that goats are important somewhere. This is just a guess, but I bet we would have more entries if we had youth shows; always more fun to watch kids show and compete against someone their own age; at least I would like it more.

Sounds like you did ok in the ring even without the rosette. Good luck tomorrow.

I caught your statement "glad to see goats are important somewhere".
We have a very strong advocate here. The Supt of the State Fair show is a large animal vet who breeds, and shows Toggs. Some of the best around.
He's very active also with ADGA. He has had National Champ Toggs and Recorded Grades.

He really pushed it with the state that we could have the premier Dairy Goat show in the country, and we really do at least as far as State Fairs. The only larger Dairy Goat show is the ADGA National show.

 

[babsbag]

knuckle heads, great timing for sure. Just makes them look like more of the idiots that they are.

 

[OneFineAcre]

So how we did in the open show.

Rosemary was 1st place in the aged does (5 and older). Cocoa was 2nd in the 4-5 year olds. Most of our others placed in the top 5.
We entered 2 dairy herds (@Latestarter remember, this is a money show) one in Rachel's name, and one in Maurine's. We took 3rd and 6th.
Zamia was 3rd in the Champion Challenge. Now this was a good thing. The judge said that Zamia had the most correct teat placement than any other Nigie in the show. She said, that if you could look in the dictionary under "correct teat placement", Zamia's picture would be there.

And this was another thing about this show and a reason I really like this judge. When we were showing the 2-3 year olds, I'm sure all of the people in the audience were wondering what was going on. I've never seen anything like this. The judge wasn't on the microphone and she was just talking to all of the exhibitor's as a group

She was telling us how beautiful all of or animals were. She said they all had great udders and what a great job we were all doing as breeders. She said that she had never seen as great a group of Nigerians in her experience judging.
That was awesome.

The grand and reserve were both from Cool Springs farm. They had magnificent animals and deserved it.

 

[babsbag]

I caught your statement "glad to see goats are important somewhere".
We have a very strong advocate here. The Supt of the State Fair show is a large animal vet who breeds, and shows Toggs. Some of the best around.
He's very active also with ADGA. He has had National Champ Toggs and Recorded Grades.

He really pushed it with the state that we could have the premier Dairy Goat show in the country, and we really do at least as far as State Fairs. The only larger Dairy Goat show is the ADGA National show.

That is really great; the fairs around here are going broke on all fronts and the livestock is at the very bottom of the pile. Even our clubs sanctioned show is having a rough time getting enough exhibitors, seems that there are fewer and fewer families raising goats and it usually starts with the kids; there aren't many adults that jump into goat raising as adults ( I did). There are some things I really like about NC, your weather isn't one of them.

 

[OneFineAcre]

That is really great; the fairs around here are going broke on all fronts and the livestock is at the very bottom of the pile. Even our clubs sanctioned show is having a rough time getting enough exhibitors, seems that there are fewer and fewer families raising goats and it usually starts with the kids; there aren't many adults that jump into goat raising as adults ( I did). There are some things I really like about NC, your weather isn't one of them.

What don't you like about our weather?

 

[babsbag]

Humidity. As a CA girl I am born and bred for dry summer heat. I would like a little rain this winter though.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Humidity. As a CA girl I am born and bred for dry summer heat. I would like a little rain this winter though.

We definitely have humidity. And then we have more humidity. And then we have some more.

 

[babsbag]

I have been in the South a few times in the summer and was miserable. NC in Sept last year was beautiful but I know that that was only a trick. I live where it is very hot and dry all summer and fall and I really do love it. Our weather is hard to beat for gardening, and that is my second passion, next to goats.

 

[Latestarter]

... I live where it is very hot and dry all summer and fall and I really do love it. Our weather is hard to beat for gardening, and that is my second passion, next to goats.

With the water shortages you folks have out there, and wild fires, how in the heck can you garden? How can you afford the water bills to keep a garden producing? I mean I know it's (CA) a major source of produce for the nation, but that's from CO river water and intensive irrigation in the main valleys... I heard you can go to jail for washing down the driveway or your car.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I don't know if anyone noticed this or not. The ring steward and secretary commented yesterday about how smart our goats were. They asked if we noticed that during youth showmanship that Cocoa watched the judge