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FCGBA to hold Great Goat Gather Open Pen Sale

The Freestone County Goat Breeders Association would like to invite all goat breeders to participate in the Great Goat Gather Open Pen Sale. The sale will be held at the Ike Carden Show Arena at the Fairgrounds in Fairfield, Texas on Saturday, September 26th from 10 till 3.

This will be an open pen sale for everyone.Come and buy, sell, or trade to your hearts content. There will be a special meat goat pen to sell your healthy meat goats for an average market price.

Pens can be rented for $10 each. There will be a limit of 5 goats or one Buck per pen. The meat goat pen will be $2 per meat goat. Meat goats will be numbered and will be weighed upon sale and sold for an average market price to be determined.

This will be a private treaty sale with prices agreed upon by the buyer and seller. The average market price for meat goats will be agreed to by the seller on the day of the sale unless the price is renegotiated by the buyer and seller. The FCGBA and its members will provide the facilities and livestock scales for the sale but will not be held responsible or liable for the condition or sale of any animal sold.

Our members hope you all come out and find the Breeding Buck, Doe, Show Wether, or Dinner that you are looking for! For information or to reserve some pens call Fred VanderMartin at 903-388-8528 or e-mail clwyer@gmail.com or call Gary Tugwell at 903-390- 7780 or e-mail ggtugwell2@ windstream.net. We ask that sellers call ahead or e-mail.

There’s the notice for the first big event! Now for the next one! The FCGBA is selling Christmas Wreaths for our scholarship fund raiser. These are beautiful wreaths and we hope that you find them attractive also and help us in helping some hardworking youngsters to realize their dream of a college education. The price is $35 per wreath and can be shipped directly to your friends or loved ones. The order form for the wreaths can be found on our web site at www.freestonecountygoats. org. Mail your order form with payment to: FCGBA, P.O. Box 1553, Fairfield, Texas, 75840. Orders must be received by October 13th. If you have any questions or need assistance in regards to our fund raiser you can give me a call/e-mail or our Prez, Gary Tugwell at 903-390-7780 or e-mail ggtugwell2@windstream. net Thank you for your support in our efforts to assist in the education of our Young Adults.

Gwen and I have been burning up the asphalt quite a bit here lately with visits to East & Northeast Texas and Oklahoma to various events. Events such as the IBGA National Show could not be possible if it were not for the sponsorship of members and businesses. The vendors who transport their wares to the events and take the time from their normal business to put on their displays at such events also contribute greatly to the bottom line of the associations at the shows.

Our final trip in the recent traveling flurry was to the NETGRA Sizzlin’ Summer Show in Greenville. We had a chance to meet a lot of new Show Folks and reacquaint ourselves and visit with a few old friends at the Saturday show. Dawn Steward of Flying S Boer Goats took us under her wing and Dakota Ash did a beautiful job preparing our paint doeling, Pretty in Red, for the show. Donna Clemons and her husband Tandy of Round Mountain Boers (www.roundmountainboer. com) gave Gwen some pointers on showing her baby. Gwen showed her in the 0-3 month percentage doe class and she placed second out of seven! Gwen was very excited but PinR couldn’t see what all of the fuss was about! She just wanted to get back to her pen for a snack and to laze around! She wasn’t as well “conditioned” as the other entrants, I guess she was paying mind to her girlish figure and didn’t want to appear too “bloomy”! President Lyndie Mansfield was pleased with the turn out and would like to thank all who attended and made the shows a success! The NETGRA is having their General Membership Meeting at the Hunt Co. Fairgrounds in Greenville on Saturday, September 19th at 10 a.m. Go to www.netgra.com for more info. Well, that’s all I have for now. The kids are being weaned and crying their little crocodile tears for their Mommas. They are doing this in between mouthfuls of feed from the creep feeder! Gwen and I and the rest of the FCGBA members will be busier than a bunch of bees in a field of clover with our upcoming sale. If you have any questions about the sale or any goat gossip then call 903- 388-8528 or e-mail clwyer@ gmail.com . Bye, for now.