SBC/GW's Journal- Spring shows DONE! & Update

[frustratedearthmother]

ARGH! That sounds horrid! So sorry that Rita was overzealous in her playing...

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Aww, SBC!! Tell Rita to play nice! No hurting mommy's nose. I pray it heals soon!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Lol....the BEARD..... ...other than the BEARD.. the pictures are beautiful. You have got some incredible animals there....nice breeding, but the BEARD hugs to you

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Sorry about your nose, our dog Missy is only 85 lbs. And has been known to do the head bang thing....by accident.....ouch.....i feel your pain

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I have to laugh about the beard comments! As a lot of you know I used to show pygmy goats. And - pygmy goats are shown in natural coat...no clipping necessary. However, we would usually trim escutcheons and ears and just tidy up the goat. My daughter looooved showmanship - and she was good. She was watching one of her younger friends and noticed that the judge mentioned the doe's beard. (we all liked the beards) She said something to the effect of "if you show a doe with a beard you want to make sure it looks nice."

My daughter tore back to the pen where her showmanship doe was...I didn't pay much attention to what she was doing. But, when she walked into the ring with her doe she had braided the beard and had put a blue bow in it! The judge's eyes got a little wide when she saw it and I could tell she was suppressing a laugh. But, the show must go on.... DD won the class and the judge finally mentioned that she was awarding the blue ribbon in showmanship to the handler - and not because the goat was already wearing a blue ribbon!

Must mention that showmanship classes in stand-alone pygmy shows (not associated with a fair) are fairly relaxed and are good learning experiences for the youngsters. Good ole' days...

 

[Baymule]

I had to laugh at the nose-smacker that Rita gave you. Probably not very nice of me, but it was funny. Hope it heals up quick for you. I once walked into a door and broke my nose, yours is the better story. At least you can blame the dog, I was just stupid.

 

[Baymule]

Don't expect me to feel sorry for you over a gray hair.....I started turning gray at 12 years old. By age 15, I could buy beer for my friends. LOL By age 34, I was white headed. I started coloring my hair at 27, but finally burned out on the whole bottle thing and stopped in my late 50's. I let it grow out long and now I like my white hair.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

For the first time in years, we are down to one Lamancha buck. Taipan was sold quite some time ago, and was picked up to live in MD last weekend. George left today and is going to live in western NC.

Monopoly (mini mancha) is sold and will be picked up soon. This leaves us with 1.5 mini lamancha bucks. SBC mentioned selling Henry but I don’t think we should yet. Maybe in the spring.

 

[Bruce]

How do you have 1/2 a buck? Surely it isn't the same as 50 cents.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he’s not full grown??