anybody know anything about showing goats?

[Alpo]

 

Specifically the one in the middle. I first noticed it had a pom pom on the end of its tail. Then I noticed how shaggy its back legs were. Then I noticed how short the rest of the hair was.

 

That goat has apparently been shaved like a poodle. Then I looked at the other two goats. They also have been shaved. Their tails appear to be left alone, unlike the middle one with the pom pom.

 

Is that common? What is the purpose?

 

 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

Just to get your attention and remember that goat .

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Maybe these G.O.A.T.s

 

 

 

[Pat Riot]

19 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

Maybe these G.O.A.T.s

 

 

 

Some people think goats taste better than G.O.A.T.s.

I tend to steer away from the popular thinking that men that play with balls are to be revered. 
_____________________________________

As for show goats. 
I had a nice lady at a county fair explain to me that the competition isn’t just about the goats. It’s more about the young people that care for and nurture them to show their skills in animal husbandry. 

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

1 minute ago, Pat Riot said:

Some people think goats taste better than G.O.A.T.s.

I tend to steer away from the popular thinking that men that play with balls are to be revered. 
____________________________________As for show goats. 
I had a nice lady at a county fair explain to me that the competition isn’t just about the goats. It’s more about the young people that care for and nurture them to show their skills in animal husbandry. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

7 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Some people think goats taste better than G.O.A.T.s.

I tend to steer away from the popular thinking that men that play with balls are to be revered. 
_____________________________________

As for show goats. 
I had a nice lady at a county fair explain to me that the competition isn’t just about the goats. It’s more about the young people that care for and nurture them to show their skills in animal husbandry. 

I don't understand the fascination of any pro sports....people playing kids' games for exorbitant amounts of money.

 

It annoys me no end to hear someone yelling "WE WON!  WE WON!"

 

They won nothing!  The guys on TV won while these guys sit at home drinking beer and eating snack food.  Most of them don't "win" anything that requires skill or strength, or above average intelligence.  Most won't even get up to go see a game in person...some do.

 

But it's not my place to tell them how they can't or shouldn't spend their time and money.  Like my Dad used to say "You go to your church and I'll go to mine".....and Dad was a pretty decent player at any number of sports and an all out supporter of anything that USU had a team for.  If there had been a team for womens' tiddly winks, Dad would have been there, cheering them on.   

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

GOATS?  Alpo, you gotta quit smoking those home grown pharmaceuticals.  They're making you weird(er)!

 

Where do you even find this stuff?   

 

You need to follow my example.  I never do anything weird.  NEVER!  

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

The sign behind the young lady showing her goat is "Huffman Show Goats."

 

Huffman. Texas is just northeast of Houston.  Search "Huffman Show Goats" for lots of links and videos about FFA show activity in that area.

 

Goats, just like dogs, cats, cattle, horses, and others get haircuts when shown.

[Alpo]

Yeah, I knew it was somewhere in Texas. And the young lady in the middle was annoyed because she got third place, and she usually got first.

 

But that poodle cut on the goat was just - I got to ask about that.

[Yul Lose]

Back in the 70’s (1970’s) my younger sister raised goats and would show them and if I remember correctly she would give them hair cuts or grooming before she’d show them. She had a few ribbons to show for it and she also made goat cheese that she’d enter in county fairs.

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

They're making you weird(er)!

“Making”??? 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

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That goat has apparently been shaved like a poodle. 

Not really. “Shaved like a poodle” would be to leave big fur balls around the joints and head to keep them warm while the pup is swimming to fetch a duck.

[Sedalia Dave]

The kids that show livestock and agricultural projects put a great deal of time and effort into it and in return the agricultural community rewards them well for that effort.

 

Livestock that the kids show is often sold at special auctions and will bring BIG money. Champion Livestock may sell for tens of thousands of dollars that can be used to further their education or as seed money for their own farms.

 

The same is true for those that design and build ag equipment. My girlfriend's 13 year old grandson received a $16,000 scholarship plus over $10,000 in welding equipment for designing and building a rabbit breeding building that took first place at a county fair.  CAn handle up to 16 rabbits  and the cages are set up for easy cleaning by a built in washdown system.

He has been offered a good profit on it but rather than sell it he gave it to his little sister so she has a place to breed and care for her show rabbits.

[Alpo]

What do they do with the goats and the sheep?

 

If I raise a calf or a shoat, when he's big enough to show, and he wins a prize, and they auction him off - he's going to get butchered.

 

So is that goat going to end up as cabrito down at Jose's Mexican restaurant?

 

Pigs and cows are generally raised for meat, but seems like goats and sheep are generally raised for hair. Are the winning goats and sheeps from county fairs also butchered?

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

 

 

   ..... as with any competition there's usually at least one winner .......  🙃

[Yul Lose]

8 minutes ago, Alpo said:

What do they do with the goats and the sheep?

 

If I raise a calf or a shoat, when he's big enough to show, and he wins a prize, and they auction him off - he's going to get butchered.

 

So is that goat going to end up as cabrito down at Jose's Mexican restaurant?

 

Pigs and cows are generally raised for meat, but seems like goats and sheep are generally raised for hair. Are the winning goats and sheeps from county fairs also butchered?

Probably in some cases, if I remember correctly my sister sold hers to a guy down in New Mexico or Texas that used them for weed control. I visited my folks one time in my first new car and I came out of the house one evening to go to the motel and there was a goat standing on the roof and another on the hood, I was pissed.

[Alpo]

2 minutes ago, Yul Lose said:

weed control.

I was thinking about that, last house I lived in. The fenced-in backyard was just nothing but scrub.

 

So I figured I would get a castrated male, long about March. Put him in the backyard and let him eat down the scrub brush. Then long about November put him in the freezer, and next March get another castrated male.

 

Never did it, but I considered it for several months.

[Buckshot Bear]

Shooting them yes, showing no.

[Stump Water]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

If I raise a calf or a shoat, when he's big enough to show, and he wins a prize, and they auction him off - he's going to get butchered.

 

So is that goat going to end up as cabrito down at Jose's Mexican restaurant?

 

Don't know about goats.

 

A cousin and her family raise/show sheep, and do well.   We were at the barn with them one time and dad caught up one of the champ sheep, grabbed a handsome hand full of mutton above the sheep's hock and said, "That's what the judges are looking for right there.  They're wanting to to see some meat."

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

If I wanted a goat to trim my weeds and later fill my freezer, I wouldn’t bid on #1.

 

[Coyote Kid, SASS#54714]

If you haven't been to the goat festival in Arkansas, you really should go attend it.

They have a parade where the handlers and goats are dressed the same.

It's an all-day affair and a lot of fun.

Just say 'in.

Coyote Kid (who's been there)

 

[Alpo]

[bgavin]

On 7/29/2024 at 6:20 AM, Pat Riot said:

I tend to steer away from the popular thinking that men that play with balls are to be revered. 

 

If I wanted to hear something whine and chase a ball, I'd get a dog.

[Trailrider #896]

Saw a video or the 'net where a wild mountain goat was dancing on the top of someone's car! Don't know why, but the goat seemed to be having fun! 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

Depends on how you want to show them