The East Texas Goat Raisers Association invites all folks to participate in their Fall Open Sale on Saturday, September 24th. We will start checking in animals at 8 a.m. until Noon. We will be changing the format of the sale. The meat goats and any goats the seller determines as commercial only will be sold first, by commercial we mean the seller does not want to guarantee the breeding soundness of the animal sold, then we will sell the market show wethers (we suggest that you clip the wethers to better present them to potential buyers), and following those we will sell the breeding and registered animals. The seller of breeding and registered Bucks and Does will have to sign a breeders guarantee in order to sell them as such. The ETGRA acts as an agent only and will only assist the buyers as an intermediary should a problem arise with the animal in question. Soundness of the animal as well as accuracy of information contained on the registration paper, application to register and service memo are the responsibility of the seller. Animals will be sifted for obvious health problems prior to sale. Knots, other than those caused by recent injections, will exclude an animal from sale. Please see the sales rules at http://www.etgra.com/sales/. The sale will start at 1 p.m. This will be an open sale with folks with meat, dairy, and pet goats invited to participate. We also welcome the sales of goat related equipment. Consignees pay the commission of $7 per head for ETGRA members and $11 per head for non-ETGRA members. The PO Fee is $7 per head for ETGRA members and $11 per head for non-ETGRA members. The commission and PO fees also apply to equipment sold. Consignees can join the association the day of the sale and take advantage of the $7 per head commission or PO fee. Concessions will be provided by SWB Youth Foundation . We welcome anyone who would like to vend their products. There will be concessions and more than likely a raffle and such. Our last sale was a success with buyers leaving with good stock at fair prices and sellers who were satisfied with the results of their transactions! That’s all I’ve got for now. What happened to the rains? We are getting some in August! This is a pleasant surprise! But along with everything else there’s some bad with the good. Our friends in Louisiana have received record rainfalls and there is widespread flooding throughout the state. Those Folks are strong and are pulling together to recover but that doesn’t mean they don’t need help. FEMA can’t cover it all so I’ll ask that ya’ll help them out by contributing to your favorite disaster aid. Once the water goes down the recovery begins please do what you can to help those folks up out of the mess they’re in. They want a hand up, not a handout. Please continue to buy papers or magazines and support their advertisers by shopping for your wares at their stores. Thank ya’ll for your continued support. If you hear tell of any training stuff or any other events, then let me know so I can spread the word. I love to post events benefiting goat breeder’s associations and youth programs so keep those e-cards and e-letters coming in. Please support your favorite local, area, or national goat breeder’s associations AND the 4-H and FFA. Call me at 903-388-8528 or e-mail clwyer@gmail.com if you have any goat gossip. Bye, for now
