I forgot to mention what happened at the one I was asked to speak at. For some reason I got the topic husbandry! Oh jeez I cannot escape looking at, talking about or going into more goat vaginas than I care to count and that was what I got stuck with
A lady from one of the County's Extension office was there to speak on general care and dairy breeds. We were each suppose to speak for 20 mins and 10 mins of questions, she spoke for an hour!! I kept my mouth shut when she said things like, test your does for CAE twice and that is all you need to do, they are CAE free. Goats need copper, put in a copper pipe in their water. Moldy hay is ok
A few people left, the other speaker brought a goat and spoke about Dairy Shares. She was going to do a milk demo and hoof trimming one after me. Somehow we had this bucking kicking goat on the stand and more people left since we had now were 2 hours into it and it should have ended.
So I finally get up there and I talk as fast as I can about breeding, pregnancy, castration, disbudding, vaccines and I ended up leaving out things I really wanted to mention.
It did not help that one lady was like a jack-in-the-box and kept popping up with her experiences interrupting all 3 of us and being a know-it-all. She started to annoy us as well as the people in the audience. She said something so untrue that I called her on it. I told her to wait till I was done or she would make me loose my place, then I turned my back on her and continued to speak, out of the corner of my eye I could see her sitting on the edge of her seat squirming with her hand raised and I just would not look at her
what can I say I am a meanie.
I did bring a bottle kid and an LGD pup with me and they were a big hit.
I would do it again, she already asked
but I told her we really need to shorten it. People came expecting 90 mins and it was 2 and a half hours. It was still fun to me since there were so many people interested in goats and while they did get a bit misinformation most of it was pretty good and correct.
