MINUTES OF SRMGA MEETING 17 MAY 2008
Meeting held at John
and Cheryl Sargent’s, on 3625 NW 1st Avenue,
New Plymouth, ID. Meeting called to order by President
Wayne Gifford. Reading of minutes of last meeting
waived. Treasurer’s report, Bank balance $2901.54.
Boers de Mayo show income and expenses as follows:
Entries -
$1871.00
Pens - 505.00
Comp Classes 180.00
Total $2556.00
Wether Pens -
70.00
Sales Pens - 100.00
Ads/Sponsor - 725.00
Total 895.00
Total
$3451.00
Expenses
Insurance $300.00
Fairgrounds 525.00
Awards 500.00
General Expenses 554.14
Judges 1600.00
Total 3479.14
Net
Loss -$28.14
Raffle $374.00
Grand Total
$345.86
We should also
receive $450.00 from the American Boer Goat Association
when they receive the results of the show.
Sale Committee
Report: The poster for the September 13 sale is on the
SRMGA website. Current members will be allowed first
consignment to the sale. After we see how many animals
are consigned by members, we will then open the sale for
outside consignments. We will need written response by
the 15th of June by members on how many
animals they are planning to bring to the sale. This
year the numbers will be limited to 10 animals per
consigner, 2 of which may be bucks. Commercial pens are
limited to 5 animals with each pen counting as one of
the 10 entries. If we have more than 150 animals
consigned, we may decide to have a two days sale, with
fullbloods/purebreds selling Saturday, the 13th
and percentages/commercial selling Sunday, the 14th.
Please contact Clare Askew @
foxtailfarms@hotmail.com or Gary Custer @
laststand@onewest.net about how many animals you are
planning to assign and whether they are fullblood,
purebred, percentage, or commercial. If you don’t have
email, mail the information to Clare Askew, 5180 SE 1st
Avenue, New Plymouth, ID 83655. We need this
information by 6/15/08 in order to decide if we will
have a 2 day sale or not.
Youth Committee
Report: Of the does donated this year, Stormy Slate’s
had a single buck and Riley Ann McKay’s is due in June.
We don’t have anymore youth applications to participate
at this time, but should we get interested youths, we
will need doelings donated. They must be registered, at
least 88%, tattooed and disbudded. Contact June Lee if
you want to donate. For youths wishing to participate,
they must be a member of the association, complete an
application, have a home inspection visit, be approved
and then they will receive their animal. The doelings
will be awarded at the sale.
Librarian/Historian
Report: Pictures from the show are available. Contact
Wayne Gifford for copies. Fred Homeyer left pamphlets
and other information to be added to the items available
from the library. There was also information about
Colorado, Louisana and Texas goat 4H programs. He also
sent Wayne an email congratulating us on our first show
and how well organized he thought it was. He also said
the animals entered could do well in any show in the
country. He said he enjoyed coming and would be glad to
judge for us anytime in the future.
Show Committee
Report: Motion was made and seconded to make Fred
Homeyer an honorary member of the association. A thank
you card and much praise and gratitude were given to
Janene Jones and Lynn Fowler for the great job they did
organizing the show. Everyone who participated
expressed interest in returning next year. Some
suggestions for next year were to have a staging area
for exhibitors who had animals in consecutive classes,
also, to announce the winners of each class at the end
of the class. Dennis Hooper will check with the panel
manufacturer in New Plymouth about how much panels for
pens would cost for the sale and show next year. He’ll
check with Western Idaho Fair about info on the panels
they use in their goat barn. Also, the Payette County
Fair Board is still talking about replacing the pens in
the sheep barns before fair time, which would be before
our sale. We volunteered to help set them up if
needed.
It was decided to
separate the Wether Lottery from the Show. We will set
up a day sometime in April for the lottery and combine
it with a fitting and showing demonstration. Clare
Askew and Karen Kennedy will contact the county
extension offices and 4H leaders about the requirements
for each fair for entries. It was suggested that a
catalog with pictures and breeding be done.
There was a
discussion on goat parasites and worming methods. June
Lee said she has been using diatomaceous earth from the
plant on Bully creek road in Vale. It’s free. She
mixes it with molasses or with grain with molasses and
her goats are doing very well on it and it kills all
parasites. Carol Blandford also said there is good
information on the Pennsylvania University website about
parasite control.
The next meeting
will be at the Best Western Motel in Mountain Home on
June 21st at 1 pm. Members are encouraged to
contact one another to carpool.
See you there,
Clare Askew
Secretary/Treasurer
There are no Classified Ads as my scanner quit
communicating with my computer and no amount of slapping
around got them talking. Money for the ads will be
returned at the next meeting
