1:00pm - 1:45pm
Karen Brown - National Kiko Registry Pesky Paperwork
2:00pm - 2:50pm Dr. Chris Rumsey - Stock Vets Using Reproduction Technology to Reach Your Goals
3:00pm - 3:45pm Dr. Chris Rumsey - Stock Vets The Hidden Diseases, Caprine Arthritis and Encephalitis(CAE) and Caseous Lymphadenitis(CL)
4:00pm - 4:50pm Dr. Fred Brown
Johnes Disease: Should you be concerned? 5:30pm
Friday Night Social-Meet and greet. Light refreshments & min- gle with the consignors.
Saturday, October 2nd
9:00am - 9:50am Dr. Scott Bowdridge Utilizing Performance Test Data in Your Herd
10:00am - 10:50am Dr. Scott Bowdridge
Improving Parasite Resistance in you herd 11:00am-12:00pm
Last Chance to view animals 12:00pm
Goat Meat Lunch Provided by National Kiko Registry 1:00pm
Cream of the Crop Kiko Sale
COMMENTARY
Do you want Blue Collar Goats or Millennial Goats?
By Cooper Sherrill
Many folks my age — “millennials” — seem to get a bad rap. “You never had to work for anything in your life.” “You’ve had everything handed to you on a silver platter.” “You’re all so soft.” The list goes on and on….
I believe that both human kids and goat kids (any livestock) are a product of their environment. Genetics certainly play a role in things but the environment in which they are raised is just as important in my opinion. Recently I was discussing with a co-
worker the different experiences we had while growing up. We both were raised by parents who helped foster us in the right di- rection but we were allowed to make our own mistakes and learn from them. We were “allowed” the opportunity to
fail. Those failures helped both us and our parents. Personally, we learned from the mis-
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takes and made strides to not make them again. For our parents, they learned where the weaknesses of their kids were and could facilitate changes to benefit us as their children.
If your children have never had to work for anything and never had the opportunity to fail, then you don’t know where their weak- nesses are and you can’t help facilitate change. You also do not know what kind of children you are sending out into the world. If they go right into another environment like what they came from “coddled, pampered, etc…” they will likely fit right in and do just fine. If they must go out and get a job and make it on their own, some may adapt and overcome, but many will not. Now let’s just replace the word children in the previous para- graphs with the words goats, breeding stock, whatever word you want to use.
If your GOATS have never had to work for anything, and never had the opportunity to fail, then you don’t know where their weak- nesses are, and you can’t help facilitate change. Change in this sce- nario might mean culling certain does, not selling replacement stock out of her (strictly terminal kids from her) or changing which buck you are using to sire your kids. You also do not know what kind of GOATS you are sending out into the world. If they go right to another environment like what they came from “coddled, pampered, etc…” they will likely fit right in and do just fine. If they must go out and get a job and make it on their own, some may adapt and overcome, but many will not. Getting a job and making it on their own may refer to goats that are forced to be self-sustaining on forage with supplemental feeding happening only when necessary to meet the nutritional requirements, raise kids
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