Meeting called to order by
President Wayne Gifford, minutes of last meeting
read and approved, treasurer’s report read and
approved.
Old Business:
Elections results, Wayne
Gifford, President, Janene Jones, Vice President,
Clare Askew, Secretary/Treasurer. Board Members,
Lynn Fowler, Linda Hernandez, John Sargent, Dave
Poe, Judy Novak, Dennis Hooper
The amended Bylaws were read,
discussed. Motion was made and seconded to approve
amendments as read.
Show Committee: Janene Jones –
All registrations, IBGA, USBGA and ABGA will be
accepted for the show. Since it is an ABGA
sanctioned show, only ABGA registered animals will
get points. There will be a showmanship class on
Sunday after the regular show that is open to all
youth. These animals will housed in a separate
area. There will be a Costume class will be held on
Saturday, so plan to dress up like your goat.
Saturday judge will need to be picked up at airport
and shuttled around, Lindy Gifford agreed to be the
taxi service. Rooms will be booked at Holiday Inn
in Ontario, rooms for the Saturday Judge for Friday
and Saturday, and for the Sunday Judge for Saturday
and Sunday. The Association will buy buns and
burgers and KFC for the work crew and exhibitors for
Friday night. The price for the Pizza for Saturday
evening dinner will be prepaid along with entry
fees. Lynn Fowler will check on straw and make
arrangements for hauling it. Judy Novak will take
pictures again and Cheryl Sargent will handle the
raffle. Everyone needs to remember to bring items
to donate for the raffle. Set up for the show will
be done Friday morning after 8 am before check in at
noon. Budget for awards will be up to $1000. Ads
will be put in Capital Press and on Boer Goats.com
Judy Novak on June show –
Annette Maze and Marie Layman will be Saturday show
judges and Pat Ariaz is the Sunday judge. Check in
on Friday, June 25th after 12:00. There
will be a Jackpot meat goat class for animals under
a year. There will be a weigh in before classes.
There will be 3 classes, light, medium and heavy.
There will be an extra charge for meat and
showmanship classes of $2.00 for each entry in each
class. These classes are not going to be for only
4-H or FFA, there won’t be an age limit. The
classes will be broken down into Junior and Senior
and Adult. USBGA has a champion challenge if the
animals have been winners before, then the past
winners are taken out of the regular classes. They
then go into the champion challenge class and go
against the winner of their class that day. There
will be a class for 3-4 yr and 4-5 years old does.
There will also be a judging clinic after the show
on Saturday, for $20 to $25 to taught by the
Saturday judges, Marie and Annette, to show how the
animals are judged.
Marketing: Evelyn Simon was
not able to attend as she is birthing babie. She
has MSMGA minerals available in 50# bags for $22 for
does and $23 for bucks. The mineral also comes in
blocks, but she doesn’t know the weight or price of
those yet. Anyone interested, contact her. There
was a meat goat seminar in Indiana, this month, but
the board decided not to send Evelyn as it is
unknown what our expenses for the shows and sale
will be this year and we don’t want to run short of
money. Dave Poe is selling 7 to 10 goats a month to
a local market. He would like 100 to 110# animals
and will pay $1 per pound live weight. He will take
does, bucks or wethers. He then gets them butchered
in Nampa and then they go to his buyer and he is
paid hanging weight. He wants to be able to supply
10 per month all year which means that his supplies
need to breed so animals are available every month.
This same buyer told Dave he can get frozen
Australian goat for $2.17 per pound shipped in.
This is very hard if not impossible for local
breeders to compete with. Treasure Valley Livestock
sales yard prices have been very high the last few
weeks. Buyers from Montana and Nevada are bidding
up the local buyers. Check with Wayne Gifford as
his brother works at the sales yard and knows when
the out of town buyers are there.
Sale Committee: We have 84
consignments so far for the sale; we would like at
least 16 more so the fee per animal can be kept
down. We are on the DV auction schedule, but have
not got a contract from them yet. We will have to
pay $1300, ½ of their fee when we sign the
contract. Anyone wanting to consign animal’s needs
to contact Clara Askew @
foxtailfarms@hotmail.com or (208) 278-3859.
Consignments will close July 15, 2010.
Junior Advisor: Terry Watts
and Judy Novak will take over the doeling program
for junior members. Canyon County will be having a
meat goat show, we don’t know how many entries,
Payette County has 6 entries and Washington County
has 14, no report on Malheur County. A discussion
was held about setting up an information booth at
the various fairs. It was decided it was a very
good idea and we should work on putting it together.
Ryan Kish wants to set up field
day with shows and seminars for adults and kids,
sometime this summer at the Owyhee county
fairgrounds in Homedale.
That’s all for this meeting.
Hope everyone’s’ kidding is going well. We’ll see
you all at the show in May.
