The Banners and Backdrops sale is done and in the books.  Personally, I would call it a success.  Duke and I got to Perry on Friday afternoon.  We had planned on being there earlier, but it just didn’t happen.  We got setup, unloaded, fed and watered then found a hotel.  Tyke, the Gambler, Duke and I made a dash over towards Morrison to the Ring Family compound.  Eric and his brother Michael had cooked up a BIG mess of quail and the fixings to go with it.  Perfect weather, great food and even better people on that fine Friday evening.  

Goats started rollling in on Saturday morning.   Arguably the biggest name in the goat industry, Glen Martin had the honors of judging the goats.  Excellent comments about the goats and his thoughts on the industry.  It’s hard to argue with the results that his kids have had showing for a pile of years.  Lots of big banners in that household.  I mean–just in 2016, that family has had the grand wether at Denver, the res. grand barrow at San Antonio, the grand wether AND the grand steer at Houston.  Everybody else would call that a hall of fame career.  Not at the Martin household, that is just a really good year.  

There was a deep set of doe kids.  Lots of good ones–breeding or show.  Seelke’s brought a wicked trio of doe kids.  They had grand and res. grand.  There were only two bucks and they were both really, really good.  The wethers were a bit different.  There wasn’t that magical great one.  But there was a bunch that I would really like to see how they feed out.  The Trotter family brought a really cool set of wethers that look to have a good future.  And that is exactly how everything sold–the does sold high, the bucks sold high and the wethers sold good.  

Arguably the best auctioneer in the business was on the block with C. Jason Spence.  Whether by car or plane, he had flown into Perry America to chant up the $s.  The does sold really good and the prices stayed high.   Both bucks saw lots of bidding action with the grand buck of Schovanec’s bringing $14k and headed to AZ.  The wethers sold well, but not high.  There were some bargains that will surface later.  As a breeder, when you sell a green one, you just hope it goes to a good home so that it has a chance.  

We had over double the number of registered bidders as compared to last year.  Thank you to all of the breeders, bidders and buyers.  Big thanks to Tommy & Julie as well as all of the rest of the crew that helped this sale run very, very smooth.  Like Mike & Mike in the Morning, next year will be even “bigger and beter than ever.”