I routinely read the judge interviews in the Purple Circle magazine. \u00a0Do they divulge earth-shattering info as to how they will judge a given show–NO. \u00a0Are the articles worth reading–YES. \u00a0If you don’t already subscribe, you should. \u00a0I enjoy perusing these articles and I do think a reader can infer some (just a few) priorities—kids first, muscle first, etc. \u00a0Normally, if their article reads like crap, that given judge sounds like crap on the mic. \u00a0But that is for a different time and place.<\/p>\n
I always use my good eye to read the part where it asks “How does the show ring compare to the “whatever” industry? \u00a0I love it when they say it doesn’t or in some spots it does mirror the industry. \u00a0Okay. \u00a0It’s even better when they are honest and give us a lesson about work ethic, people networking skills, animals as a teaching tool\u2026\u2026 \u00a0YES, and I agree.<\/p>\n
Hogs–could NOT be farther from the actual industry than we currently are. \u00a0C–sections–common. \u00a0Small litters–can you say twins. \u00a0Cripples–absolutely. \u00a0Slow growers–get you some of that. \u00a0But the chance of making that ONE big boned, stout skulled, wide backed son-of-a-gun that kind of walks without being a cripple–priceless. \u00a0The hog industry is stuck in 1998. \u00a0McGwire and Sosa–we all want the next home run.<\/p>\n
Sheep–RUSM? \u00a0Could we get them any wider based, huge boned, fatter and how much is shag worth in the real world? \u00a0NOTHING. \u00a0But it sells good in pictures online. \u00a0 And vets get paid for C sections to deliver these big boned, wide skulled lambs.<\/p>\n
Cattle–Marketing, marketing, marketing. \u00a0They’ve been at it the longest and they get it. \u00a0The show ring vs. the real world? \u00a0Okay, there are similarities, BUT, this is a somewhat goat based site so\u2026..<\/p>\n
Basically, I would rather talk the cattle side but I don’t have time for the cattle deal. \u00a0It has its moments and I have plenty of thoughts.<\/p>\n
Goats– The wethers are too fat. \u00a0Period. \u00a0And as a result we cause more problems. \u00a0Kidney stones for one. \u00a0The does are fat so therefore, they become susceptible to toxemia. \u00a0No dang’d old range goat ever gets thiamine deficiency. \u00a0Too much emphasis is put on base width and mass (not true muscle). \u00a0Purebred goats are nothing but big bones, wide based bastards with a set of papers. \u00a0Therefore, they can’t help any part of the industry. \u00a0There is no real substance. \u00a0Hair, fat and bone. \u00a0In the real world, this doesn’t work. \u00a0That is why we have “wether” genetics and purebreds. \u00a0The purebreds should help the market industry. \u00a0The purebred goats do NOT.<\/p>\n
The purebred side markets “wether genetics”. \u00a0The wether side secretly uses some purebred stuff hoping, praying that it saves them.<\/p>\n
But NOOOO! \u00a0Nobody is paying attention to their history lessons.<\/p>\n
My point—-the Angus cow is still a staple of the market cattle industry. \u00a0The Yorkshire sow still has a place in all things porcine. \u00a0The Dorper sheep is taking over the sheep industry because of reproductive ability. \u00a0And the outstanding purebred Boer goat–is waiting to be flushed (again) because she can’t raise one on her own. \u00a0There will be a Spanish recip waiting for her embryos. \u00a0And most breeders have a dairy cross doe on stand-by that will raise the babies.<\/p>\n
My point\u2026.it is going to be awhile until the next great wether buck shows up. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because we are at a genetic stand-still and the purebreds are not selecting for productivity. \u00a0So, both sides of the industry are standing around looking for the next great thing.<\/p>\n
Somewhere, someplace there is a goat. \u00a0The right goat. \u00a0What’s he worth? \u00a0Where is he? \u00a0If you study history, \u00a0these deals run in cycles. \u00a0Hogs have a shorter cycle than the rest, but they still have the same issues. \u00a0For example, \u00a0Berks are popular, Herefords are making a charge and are there any good purebred Hampshires left?<\/p>\n
I ain’t never been surfing but it looks\/feels\/sounds like the entire goat industry is waiting on that magical wave to ride.<\/p>\n
Holy what the hell? \u00a0I sat down to write about differences between Duke’s uncles and I ended up here. Look—squirrell! \u00a0One phone call and I get off on a tangent.<\/p>\n
If reading all of this crap makes you mad, well\u2026.go tear down a statue somewhere. \u00a0From a teacher perspective, I had a GREAT day. \u00a0I mean GREAT!!<\/p>\n
“Black people that were never slaves are fighting white people that were never Nazis over a confederate statue erected by Democrats, because Democrats can’t stand their own history anymore, and somehow it’s Trumps fault?” I don’t know this dude, but obviously there are some differences out there. \u00a0Somehow, I feel that we were smarter before smart phones and Facebook, blogs and all of this other crap.<\/p>\n WTH is going on?<\/p>\n Get ready for the eclipse next week.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I routinely read the judge interviews in the Purple Circle magazine. \u00a0Do they divulge earth-shattering info as to how they will judge a given show–NO. \u00a0Are the articles worth reading–YES. \u00a0If you don’t already subscribe, you should. \u00a0I enjoy perusing these articles and I do think a reader can infer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Terry Rickard<\/span><\/p>\n