How much do I exercise my goat? Do I use a track dog? What about a treadmill? Should I exercise my goat? All valid questions. 1–If it is a wether, then he needs short, hard sprints. You want them built more like a running back as opposed to
I see a lot of goat hooves. It is my experience that most people don’t know how to properly trim hooves. Most just kind of trim the long stuff off, some don’t do anything until show day and a few try to do corrective trimming without knowing what
I remember back in the day of a commercial that said “Why ask Why”. Everybody needs to ask themselves “Why?” from time to time. Why do I mess with these animals? Why do I spend the money on this stuff? Why in the heck do we do this?
I was always a Paul Harvey fan. I loved the “Rest of the Story” segments. If you don’t remember these, google it. It was quality news reporting. Here is my 10 cents. And I literally mean 10 cents, not a penny more, not a penny less–10 cents.
You can’t win ’em all! Just ask Notre Dame, there is always somebody waiting to beat you. Every successful show program needs to have a goal–is it just a project, make the sale at district, at a major, win the county, district or a major. There has to
One of the biggest fears of humans is public speaking. Very few people like to get up in front of any number of people and talk. I don’t know why it doesn’t bother me, but I don’t mind being in front of a crowd. Which is weird as
What a screwed up week. Crazy busy at work on Monday. Off on Tuesday. It doesn’t feel like a Friday. Our resident scholar is glad that it is a short school work week. It has been a weird week. Last saturday, Duke wrestled in Tonkawa.
I have been on strike the past month. I got done with the Champion’s Choice jackpot on Dec. 1 and I hadn’t looked at, handled, clipped or trimmed hooves on anybody’s show goats since then. I did try to help Duke get Red Tuxedo’s mind right, but all
Last night, I recieved word that Tom Lamle’s father had passed away. I talked to Tom this morning and he and the family were fine. Keep his family in your prayers. Tom was in Okeene helping to take care of his father’s stuff and still managed to make
The year 2013 is here. Somehow, we managed to avoid the fiscal cliff. I’m happy we avoided this clliff, mainly, so we don’t have to hear the mainstream media talk about it anymore. It’s amazing how our media comes up with new terms and then sensationalizes it to
