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reserve champion.
Nine-year-old Willy won 3rd place in junior showing and fitting.
Joyce is hoping that their will be enough interest next year to allow children who raise goats who are not milkers to compete in showing and fitting. "This encourages those who keep goats just for fun,” she said.
As April points out in her prize-winning essay, many cultures are dependent on goats for survival. They provide milk more efficiently than cows can and in some places, goat meat is eaten, the hair and hide are used, and goats are used to pull light carts.
Misconceptions about goats abound. They are very clean. The strong odor attributed to goats comes only from the male in rut. Nor do they eat everything in sight. Their food must be clean or they will refuse it. They do enjoy a varied diet: persimmons, cabbage, pumpkins, corn, as well as bushes, bark and leaves are favorites of the Adams goats. “They are browsers, not grazers, just like deer," Joyce said. They also have four stomachs, like a cow, so they can digest a variety of food. The Adams protect the bark of their persimmon tree by occasionally painting it with a diluted manure. No tin cans or overalls have yet been eaten by these Flint Hill goats. The Adams feed them hay to supplement their browsing and find that most goats eat only about a pound a day. They let the kids nurse until they are about three months old, when the mother has already shown them the pleasures of outdoor dining. When a doe is milking, she supplies about two or three quarts of milk a day. Heavy milkers give as much as a gallon.
Goats require only modest accommodations: some shelter from the wind and rain. The Adams put them in at night for protection against wandering dogs. The hot sun doesn't seem to bother
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