BIJO Boer Goats

11/16/2024

11/15/2024

If there's one thing every caprine owner agrees on, it's that they want their animals to be comfortable while indoors. That means having suitable goat bedding to provide cushioning, cleanliness, and warmth.

https://goatjournal.iamcountryside.com/feed-housing/goat-bedding-shallow-vs-deep-bedding-methods/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Goat%20Journal

11/15/2024

11/15/2024

11/14/2024

📢 iCOMPETE UPDATE 📢
If you’ve registered any animals on iCompete this week, you might have noticed a major update. The ABGA office has made significant strides since the initial launch of iCompete and is excited to announce that you will now receive a registration number immediately upon payment, eliminating any waiting time.

You no longer need to wait for a registration number to transfer an animal.

Additionally, if you register on the weekend, there’s no need to wait for office staff to validate your registrations.

Temporary certificates can be printed immediately after payment. However, please note that temporary certificates are not recommended for sales. If you are purchasing a registered animal, ABGA advises obtaining a Certificate of Registration from the seller, as temporary certificates are not accepted for transfers or other transactions.

We would like to thank our loyal members and appreciate your continued support and patience!

abga.org/icompete

11/14/2024

“With no supermarkets and almost no money back in the day, it was "root hog or die" if we liked to eat. Food? We grew most everything we ate. For instance, sausage, ham, tenderloin and fatback? (bacon to us moderns) Yep! Along with all the other foods we grew, we grew those too and never ever did we go hungry, come winter time.

Come spring of the year, Pa bought a small pig; we fed it well all summer and by fall of the year, it had grown quite big. On a frosty November morning, Pa built a fire under the scalding vat, shot the hog, (right between the eyes with a .22,) we hauled it to the scalding vat on the sled and rolled it into the hot water to loosen the hair so we could scrape it off. We then hung it upside down from a tree limb, Pa cleaned it out, cleaned it up and lowered it to some planks he had laid on the ground.

What did he do then? With a butcher knife and axe, he made magic right there on the spot: ham, shoulders, side meat, tenderloin and other good things. (He was mighty good at doing that.) Meanwhile inside the house, we ground up meat in the meat grinder, Mama mixed in red-hot pepper and other stuff, we rolled it into balls, she canned it in fruit jars and stored it in the cellar. (Come breakfast time on cold winter mornings, home canned sausage was the best stuff on God’s Green Earth, bar none.)

Meanwhile, the whole house smelled of raw meat and by the end of hog-killing day, fresh meat was the last thing I wanted to eat. BUT, come next morning, Mama fried a stack of buckwheat pancakes that reached the sky, made white-sop gravy, (sauce, you all) home-made biscuits, perked coffee on top of the wood stove, and best of all, fried up a whole bowl of fresh tenderloin. Was it good? Best stuff I ever seen; bar none.

After hog-killing day was done, it was comforting to know, that (with firewood piled high, the cellar and meat box full to the brim) no matter how rough the coming winter, we would be warm and fed.”

By Wayne Easter resident of the Appalachian mountains

Not my story but we can relate. Our kitchen is busy this time of year. Raising and providing our own food is unbelievably hard but rewarding in countless ways ❤️👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

11/12/2024

11/12/2024

The patient arrived with a bladder stone, grimacing in pain and moping about. He wouldn't even chew his cud. The patient, you see, was a goat. And while treated for his bladder stone—a common ailment in the small ruminants—he was also contributing to new research that aims to accurately measure ...

11/12/2024

It is important to be able to tell how old a sheep/goat is by looking at its teeth. Sheep/goats with worn, broken, and missing teeth will have a more difficult time maintaining their body condition, especially under grazing situations.

https://www.sheepandgoat.com/_files/ugd/aded98_402cd4def3cf4613b225c6420687ba65.pdf