{"id":7660,"date":"2020-02-07T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2020-02-07T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:54:43","slug":"goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/2020\/02\/07\/goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plate 1.<\/span> \u201cSilas,\u201d a six-month Nubian \/ Boer cross, is shown by 16-year old Braden LeMasters of Reeds Spring. \u201cSilas has good loin width, his front chest muscle fits in the palm well, he has a flat straight face and his ears \u2018finish\u2019 his face in the way they wrap,\u201d notes LeMasters.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSilas\u201d is walked daily and bathed every other day. LeMasters has been showing goats for three years.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Goats<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Joshua Heston<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Goats get something of a bad rap. Accused by the unknowing of eating everything from clothing to tin cans \u2014 and associated with lost souls and devil worship by European tradition, goats suffer from more than a few negative connotations.<\/p>\n

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Plate 2. Ben Simms, a 20-year old animal science major at College of the Ozarks, takes a good look at the competition. As a judge, Sedalia-native Simms is looking for \u201cstrong animals, particularly good strong feet and legs. For the wethers, you look for long loins, overall strength. For the bucks, you look for traits that will be passed on \u2014 those things that will make the animal a good sire.\u201d
Simms is a 4H veteran with 11 years of showing experience, mostly with dairy goats.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Plate 3. Twelve-year old Hamer Goolsby of Billings shows \u201cAmelia,\u201d a strong Boer doe who \u201cleads well and has plenty of muscle.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

I raised goats as a youngster and they\u2019ve always been one of my favorite critters. Intelligent, curious, occasionally ornery, goats make for playful companions and more than one child\u2019s best friend. I have loving memories of a billy named Abe who would follow me around the yard much like a lap dog.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raised for both milk and meat, goats have been valuable livestock since time immemorial. In the Ozarks, goats are crucial for their hardiness and ability to thrive on little more than briar patches and rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 30, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the goats on the left<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When the Son of man shall come in his glory,<\/p>

And all the holy angels with him,,<\/p>

Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:<\/p>

And before him shall be gathered all nations:<\/p>

And he shall separate them one from another,<\/p>

As a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:<\/p>

And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but<\/p>

The goats on the left.<\/p>\u2014 Matthew 25:31-33<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Plate 4. Ten-year old Grant Goolsby, also of Billings, with six-month old buck \u201cGunsmoke.\u201d \u201cHe will be our herd sire,\u201d shares Goolsby, \u201cHe is very proud and he won because he is big, well-muscled and has overall power. That and his \u2018dashing good looks.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Goat breed list:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Alpine \u2022 Altai Mountain \u2022 American Cashmere \u2022 Anatolian Black \u2022 Anglo-Nubian (Nubian) \u2022 Angora \u2022 Appenzell \u2022 Arapawa Island \u2022 Australian Goat \u2022 Bagot \u2022 Barbari \u2022 Beetal \u2022 Belgian Fawn \u2022 Benadir \u2022 Bhuj \u2022 Bionda dell’Adamello \u2022 Black Bengal \u2022 Boer \u2022 Booted Goat \u2022 British Alpine \u2022 Brown Shorthair Goat \u2022 Canary Island \u2022 Canind\u00e9 \u2022 Carpathian \u2022 Chamois Colored \u2022 Changthangi \u2022 Chappar \u2022 Charnequeira \u2022 Chengde Polled \u2022 Chengdu Brown \u2022 Chigu \u2022 Corsican \u2022 Daera Din Panah \u2022 Damani \u2022 Damascus \u2022 Danish Landrace \u2022 Don \u2022<\/p>\n

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Plate 5. Nine-year old Parri McCroskey of Nixa is show here with her Boer doe \u201cPassion.\u201d \u201c\u2018Passion\u2019 won notice with her straight stance and back,\u201d says McCroskey. \u201cShe is calm when she gets her bath and is really friendly.
\u201cShe is my best friend.\u201d
Braden LeMasters with \u201cSilas\u201d is shown in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

Duan \u2022 Dutch Landrace \u2022 Dutch Toggenburg \u2022 Erzgebirg \u2022 Finnish Landrace \u2022 Girgentana \u2022 G\u00f6ingeget \u2022 Golden Guernsey \u2022 Grisons Striped \u2022 Hailun \u2022 Haimen \u2022 Hasi \u2022 Hejazi \u2022 Hexi Cashmere \u2022 Hongtong \u2022 Huaipi \u2022 Huaitoutala \u2022 Hungarian Improved \u2022 Irish Goat \u2022 Jining Grey \u2022 Kaghani \u2022 Kamori \u2022 Kiko \u2022 Kinder \u2022 LaMancha \u2022 Loashan \u2022 Moxot\u00f3 \u2022 Murcia-Granada \u2022 Myotonic (Wooden Leg) \u2022 Nachi \u2022 Nigerian Dwarf \u2022 Norwegian \u2022 Oberhasli \u2022 Peacock Goat \u2022 Philippine \u2022 Poitou \u2022 Pygmy \u2022 Pyrenean \u2022 Qinshan \u2022 Repartida \u2022 Russian White \u2022 Saanen \u2022 Sahelian \u2022 San Clemente \u2022 Somali \u2022 Spanish \u2022 SRD \u2022 Swedish Landrace \u2022 Tauernsheck \u2022 Tennessee Fainting \u2022 Thuringian \u2022 Toggenburg \u2022 Uzbek Black \u2022 Valais Blackneck \u2022 Verata \u2022 West African Dwarf \u2022 White Shorthaired Goat \u2022 Wooden Leg Goat \u2022 Xinjiang \u2022 Xuhai \u2022 Yemen Mountain \u2022 Zalawadi \u2022 Zhiwulin Black \u2022 Zhongwei<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plate 6. Eight-year old Dallas Goolsby of Billings is shown here with \u201cAustin,\u201d her mixed-breed Boer. \u201cHe stands up tall and has a straight back and good muscle,\u201d notes Goolsby.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Original 1918 4H Pledge:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I pledge…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Head to clearer thinking, My Heart to greater loyalty, My Hands to larger service, And my Health to better living, For my club, my community and my country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Otis E. Hall of Kansas<\/h2>\r\n
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Plate 7. Fourteen-year old Noble LeMasters of Reeds Spring shows off \u201cMonster,\u201d a young Nubian \/ Boer cross. \u201cHe has a wide, nice chest, is very strong and has a good stance,\u201d says LeMasters, \u201c\u2018Monster\u2019 is hard-headed but gets walked every day. We work with the goats for two to three hours every day. And we bathe them every other day.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

4H Taney County Animal Show, 2013<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the hard work of folks like Cassandra Nebena, Ken and Kimberly Dixon, a handful of supremely qualified judges and a growing number of dedicated kids, the 4H program in Taney County is making a comeback. Despite the tourism in our area, agriculture still plays an important part of our economy and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a valuable place for these kids to share, to learn, and to be recognized for their efforts. Raising animals is hard work, requiring everyday responsibility, dedication and education. It is work which teaches us a great deal of science, compassion, common sense and a sense of reality far removed from most \u201creality\u201d TV shows.<\/p>\n

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Photo credits: J. Heston. All Plates, Taney County 4H Fair, Forsyth, Missouri (06\/13\/13). State of the Ozarks \u00a9 Archive. June 20, 2013<\/h2><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plate 1. \u201cSilas,\u201d a six-month Nubian \/ Boer cross, is shown by 16-year old Braden LeMasters of Reeds Spring. \u201cSilas has good loin width, his front chest muscle fits in the palm well, he has a flat straight face and his ears \u2018finish\u2019 his face in the way they wrap,\u201d notes LeMasters. \u201cSilas\u201d is walked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}