Meeting Minutes for 16 Aug 2008
Meeting
called to order by President Wayne Gifford. We would
like to thank Evelyn Simon & Joe Bennett for hosting the
meeting at their farm in Hagerman. Minutes of last
meeting and treasurer’s report read and approved. We
have $6123.53 in the bank. We have received $3450 for
entries, pictures and ads for the fall sale.
Old
Business:
Sale
Committee: From 26 consignors, we have 58 fullblood
does, 29 fullblood bucks, 34 purebred does, 4 purebred
bucks, 19 percentage does and 12 pens of commercial
which includes 30 does and 3 bucks coming to the sale on
September 13 at 12 noon. The catalog and the website
should be completed by the first of September.
There
are still approximately 100 bales of straw at the
fairgrounds. Wayne will check and see if we can buy it
so we don’t have to bring straw in for the sale. Straw
will be supplied for the consigners by the association.
Brand paint will be used to put the lot numbers on the
animals.
Check in
for the sale will be from 2 pm Friday September 12 until
9 am Saturday September 13th. A potluck will
be held Friday evening from 6 pm until the last arrival
to provide a meal for the consigners and workers at the
fairgrounds. Lindy Gifford will prepare goat meat and
other association members will bring side dishes. Paper
plates and utensils will be provided.
Joe Bennett will auctioneer again this year. Clare will
clerk with lots of help from Karen Kennedy, Carol
Blandford, Janene Jones and Lynn Fowler. Cheryl Sargent
will take care of the raffle with help from Becky
Gates. Members are requested to gather donations for
the raffle table. We will have
a set up day sometime during
the week before the sale, all local members will be
needed to help set up the pens and alleys.
The VFW will have their booth
open for breakfast and lunch Saturday the 13th.
Ads for
the sale have been put in the Capital Press, Rural and
Ranch Living, Meat Goat Rancher, Boer Goats.com, and
Idaho Press Tribune.
NancyJoy
Craig, Spotted Dog Ranch, will donate a purebred doeling
to the raffle. Anyone else who wants to donate is
encouraged to do so.
Gary
Custer suggested we ask Ryan Kish to do the color
announcing for the sale. Pictures will be taken of the
high selling doe and buck and thank you ads will be done
after the sale featuring these animals. June will
update the banner with sale info for background for the
pictures.
The
Junior members who received donated does will show their
animals at 10:30 on sale day. Ryan Kish will be asked
to judge them. A WSI gift certificate will be given to
the winner.
For next year’s sale, consignors will again be limited
to 10 animals, 2 of which can be bucks. Commercial pens
will count as one lot. We will need written confirmation
from consignors by June 15th 2009 for the
Fall sale. We will try to limit the sale to 125
animals. A motion was made and seconded to have 2 shows
and sale in May. This would encourage exhibitors and
consignors to attend as it would provide an opportunity
to earn more points and exposure for their animals
without having the extra expense of traveling to several
shows. There would be a morning show and an afternoon
show on Saturday and a sale on Sunday. Again the sale
would be limited to 125 animals. Deadline for
consignments would be the same as for show entries. That
deadline will be determined at the next meeting. Evelyn
Simon will make up a
flyer to pass out at this sale to determine interest for
next year. A show and/or sale in Filer was discussed
and tabled for further discussion later.
Youth
Committee: Tailer-Logen Mackay’s application was
approved for a donation doeling. The doe that her
sister Ryley got had twins, a buck and doe, so Tailer
will get the doeling. This solves the problem of trying
to get it away from Ryley. It will stay in the family.
Stephanie Goertz didn’t show in confirmation at the
Washington County Fair, so she will need to show her doe
at the sale on September 13th. The
Association did addons to the price of the market
wethers of Tristan Thornton and Stormy Slate, two of our
Junior Members who showed their animals at the Gem and
Payette County fairs. Wethers purchased from our
members won Grand Champion and Reserve Champion at the
local fairs. Tristan Thornton got Grand Champion at
the Gem County Fair. Congratulations to both the
exhibitors and the breeders of these animals.
Market
Committee: Linda Cofer Diseco has not been able to come
to our area to buy goats and she doesn’t know when or if
she will be able to come with the price of gas and all.
Del Treasurer, out of Caldwell, is paying $.85 to $.90 a
pound at this time. Evelyn Simon shared a booth with a
lamb producer at the Boise Farmer’s Market to sell her
meat. With the booth fee, scale, licenses and permits
needed it will be hard to show a profit without making
the long term commitment to be there every week. There
was good interest however. She had samples, recipes and
handouts about chevon.
Librarian/Historian: The scrapbook is set up and has
lots of great photos of our activities and shows. The
library is organized and contains videos, and books
about goat medicine, AI info, showing and fitting. If
anyone has any books or pamphlets to donate, please
contact Judy Novak. You can either check out items at
the meetings and return them at the next meeting or
request an item and it will be mailed to you at
the association’s expense and you can return the item by
mail also.
There will be no meeting
between now and the Production Sale. Members will be
notified when the set up date is determined. We would
like to thank all the members in advance for their hard
work and participation. It should be a great sale.
Clare Askew
Secretary/Treasurer
