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The 2006 Show Season
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Tribute to Danny Dixon, Boer Goat Judge
who died April 26, 2006 |
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A show judge who knows livestock because all his life he has made his living from ranching and who is too full of integrity to play favorites can be a really valuable help to a goat rancher. Danny Dixon was such a man. Through the years we have taken some of the most important Boers in our herd to the show ring for him to analyze. As we saw that his opinions were impartial and based on legitimate knowledge we began to let those opinions influence our decisions about which goats to use in our breeding program.
We think that he proved to us over the years that shows could be valuable educational opportunities when the judge is truly an expert and honest enough to be as accurate as he knows how.
Whether or not you knew Danny Dixon or ever watched him judge a show, you lost a true friend when he died because men of his caliber are necessary to the welfare of the meat goat industry. |
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We went to a
show in South
Carolina May 6
and brought home
two Grand
Championships.
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Mistymoon
Grand Champion
Junior Doe |
Feather Dancing
Grand Champion
Senior Doe |
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Special thanks to
Rusty and Rayna Lee
of Winder, Georgia,
for fitting and
showing our goats.
These two young
people are truly
special people. They
not only are expert
at what they do,
they are honest,
hard-working and
good-natured. If you
don’t have a Boer
Goat to show, go out
and buy one so you
can let Rusty and
Rayna show it for
you! Getting
acquainted with them
is well worth it!
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Grand Champion
A three-year-old
Nightsparkle/ Granite
daughter won Overall Grand
Champion Meat Goat Nanny of
the 2006 Winkler County
Livestock show. When Chance
Smith and his mother Jody
left here with his new nanny
she was pawing the trailer
floor and gnashing her
teeth, snapping at anyone
who got within two feet of
her. We figured Chance
wouldn’t have even been able
to drag her into the ring,
much less have won with her,
but that boy is as strong as
a bear. When he ties on to
a goat it is going to move
or not move, whichever he
wants. Notice that big shiny
buckle he is holding. He
came away with two of those
buckles. The second one was
awarded for Showmanship.
His official entry in the
Showmanship contest was a
wether, but we suspect the
judge was remembering how
well he controlled this wild
old nanny. |
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Reserve Grand Champion
Chance also won Reserve
Grand Champion Meat Goat
Nanny with this pretty young
Snuffy daughter. Jody and
Chance raised this nanny
themselves, but we felt like
we could claim kin because
we own Snuffy now. (When you
show goats as seldom as we
do, you get all the mileage
you can out of any win!)
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