Knowing I don't do well with New Year's Resolutions, I thought I'd see if Pre-Halloween Resolutions work any better for me
I) I resolve to keep our website more current.
II) I will not fire my IT team, but have had terse words with her. (Of course, in the end I acquiessed and said, "Yes, dear".
III) I resolve to be more real-time as I learn to use this blog thing.
Don't want to over do it, so we'll call that a good start.
Lynda and I have had a good goat year thus far, and would like to thank everyone who has made it a success! We look forward to seeing many of you at the 2008 National Western Stock Show.
Probably the most gratifying, if not time consuming, endeavor was the first annual "Western Meat Goat Test". A meat goat feed performance test designed for bucks, WMGT had 48 bucks arrive at CSU's ARDEC facility on June 1. The actual 87 day test period began June 15, and the bucks went off test on Sept. 10, with 44 bucks averaging .635 lbs. daily gain. The 29th of Sept. culminated the event with seminars from Drs. Frank Craddock and Mike Salsbury, TAMU and Angelo State respectively, lecturing on genetic selection and nutrition. Following a tasty, complimentary, goat burrito lunch catered by the CSU Meats Lab, 20 performance qualified bucks were sold at auction. The quality, young, sire prospects averaged $344.75 with a top bid of $800 on a solid red buck with a 3.0 REA, (the test high), from Kim Price, Delta, CO.
Many thanks are due to many folks for making the test a great event. Most notably:
1) Everyone at Colorado State University, Dep't. of Animal Sciences--ARDEC--
2) Nutrition Services Feeds, York, NE. Without NSI's involvement and support, this never would have got past the planning stages.
3) The cooperating producers for being forward thinking and finding value in the data being generated.
We look ahead to an even better test next year!
4 comments:
Dear Uncle Scott,
Nice details in the news letter. My dad thinks you are a gobber but my dad is just silly like that. See ya soon.
Loving niece,
Morgan Pruett
Dear goober Scott,
I am ughhhhh...ughhhhh... well anyway hope to see you soon. Have a happy gooberty goo day!
your fellow goober,
Ben
How can I possibly thank you GOOBERS for all your support?--STP
Hi Scott & Lynda
Just thought I would check out your blog site. It is nice to see your family is so supportive!
(Ha, Ha)
Wanted to thank you again for bringing Centennial to 4S. As that is such a mouthful, we went to "Cent" and finally "Penny"!
Also thanks again for all of your hardwork at the test. Hopefully we will have bucks the right age to enter in next years.
We are thinking of coming out and showing some this year, and wondered if you know when the shows in your area are going to be. And of course if you have any helpful tips on getting those youngsters ready, they are always welcome....
Take care,
Lin
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