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Tara Hicks has been selected as one of three 2023 ABGA and JABGA National Show Superintendents. This is not Tara’s first rodeo when it comes to the National Show Superintendent role. She was a 2022 National Show Superintendent and has previously hosted ABGA sanctioned shows. National Show Superintendent, Tara Hicks, with JABGA Director and exhibitor Wyatt Stevens at the 2022 National Show. An ABGA member since 2014 and with over a decade of county fair superintendent experience, the driving force behind Tara’s agricultural involvement is youth exhibitors. “I love working with the youth and helping them develop skills they will use later in life. My absolute favorite thing at any show is Showmanship! I love watching the kids give it their all." Part of what makes Tara’s involvement with the ABGA and JABGA National Show so natural is the event’s evolution and focus to directly benefit JABGA youth exhibitors. Of course, the chance to network with other Boer goat breeders is a big bonus too. "Meeting producers from across the country is awesome also...because I don't make it to enough shows during the year to mingle much.” Tara doesn't only stick to Boer goats. She has a ton of show experience with 4-H, Brown Swiss cattle, registered Polled Hereford cattle, steers, commercial heifers, and market lambs. She owns Rock’N Heart Farms, a 30-acre spread in northwest Arkansas. She calls Rock'N Heart Farms “a little bit of a funny farm.” Rock'N Heart Farms runs around 40 head of goats, several breeds of cattle, and plenty of dogs, horses, and cats. Tara earned a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Missouri State University and currently works as a breeder supervisor for Simmons Foods, a poultry company that has branched into the pet food sector. #2023NationalShow #news Meet 2023 National Show Superintendent Tara Hicks This is not Tara Hicks' first rodeo when it comes to the National Show Superintendent role.

Gage Taylor Region 7 Gage Taylor grew up on his family cattle ranch in Talpa, Texas. When his father introduced Boer goats into the family, they relocated to Zephyr, Texas. Gage is an Agricultural Science Instructor and FFA Advisor at Mullin ISD where he dedicates his time to youth development in leadership, the livestock industry, agriscience, and agriculture experiences. Gage received his associate degree from Ranger College in 2017, his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education from Tarleton State in 2019, and master’s degree in Agricultural & Consumer Resources from Tarleton State in 2021. He is an Ed.D doctoral candidate at Texas Tech University in the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources. Gage has specialized in researching diversity and inclusion in agricultural education settings and plans to continue this into doctoral school. Gage was appointed to the ABGA board in 2022. He looks forward to working with a great group of directors to help assist the organization in a direction of positive change. Email

Boer Goat Nation, hosted by Drew Williams, is a podcast designed to promote the Boer goat breed, the industry, and the hard-working people that make the industry great. Boer Goat Nation is broadcast via Facebook Live every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM CST. You can find them on Facebook HERE. In an effort to improve communication and open engagement with nearly 10,000 ABGA members and industry partners, the ABGA Board of Directors is excited to be partnering with Boer Goat Nation. The Board of Directors has committed to participating in the podcast once a month to share updates and progress within ABGA and JABGA and share highlights from our published minutes from the monthly meetings of the Board of Directors. You can watch the monthly updates below. ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Winter Face-to-Face Recap Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Dec 6, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - July 25, 2023 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Jul 25, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Summer Face-to-Face Recap Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Jul 17, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - July 11, 2023 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Jul 11, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - May 30, 2023 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. May 30, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - April 25, 2023 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Apr 25, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - March 28 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Mar 28, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Feb. 28th Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Feb 28, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Jan. 31 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Jan 31, 2023 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Dec. 20 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Dec 21, 2022 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Dec. 13 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Dec 14, 2022 Watch the Podcast ABGA on Boer Goat Nation - Nov. 15 Keep up with announcements, reminders, events, and more from the ABGA office. Nov 16, 2022 Watch the Podcast

2024 Costume Contest This show is a fun-filled experience for exhibitors as well as spectators. All JABGA members can participate. Both the goat and the exhibitor should dress for the occasion. The Costume Contest will take place Tuesday, June 11th during the lunch break. Divisions: Junior (4-12) Senior (13-21) Two prizes will be given per division: judges choice, and people choice. Exhibitors are required to show their goat in a halter or lead, and must maintain control of their animal at all times. This is a family-friendly event, all participants must act in an appropriate manner. Inappropriate costumes or behavior may be disqualified at any time by ABGA/ JABGA Staff or Board Members. Photos by Pearl's Pics For more information or questions, contact: nationalshow@abga.org Costume Contest This show is a fun-filled experience for exhibitors as well as spectators! All JABGA members can participate. Photo by Pearl's Pics .

iCompete Find iCompete updates, how-to videos, report an issue and more. Go to iCompete Report a Problem Watch Tutorials View Updates New to iCompete? Check out these step-by-step tutorial to get you started. More tutorials coming soon! How to Register a Goat with Two Registered Parents on iCompete How to Transfer a Goat on iCompete How to Register a Percentage Goat with an Unregistered Dam Next Back iCompete News & Updates Renew You ABGA Membership on iCompete READ MORE Nov 6, 2023 Multi-Owned Goats Now Displaying in All Owners Inventory READ MORE Sep 27, 2023 iCompete Open: Still in Beta READ MORE Aug 4, 2023 iCompete: Please Check Your Owned Animals READ MORE Jul 14, 2023 Important: Online Live will permanently go offline READ MORE Jun 1, 2023 Creating an iCompete Login and Linking to Your ABGA Membership READ MORE Nov 28, 2022 Next Back Updates on iCompete Technical Issues and Features These are the major issues or missing features with iCompete. We are working through smaller bugs on the member and staff side of iCompete that shouldn't affect registrations. Please report any issues you are having with registrations that are not listed below by clicking the Report a Problem button above. ​ Registrations are not immediate at this time. You will receive a temporary number that starts with "?" after you submit your registration. You will receive a full registration number after 1-2 business days. This process is temporary until iCompete is validating automatically. Transferring while registering is currently unavailable. This option will become available once iCompete is automatically validating. You can transfer animals once it has a full registration number. Members are unable to use credit on file for online registrations . Credit can only be used for work orders done in office. We highly encourage members to pay with their credit cards via our secure Square payment portal. The "BLUE SCREEN" is no longer being updated or supported. iCompete is an all-in-one solution that includes registry, competition and shows, and research. You will no longer need two logins to manage your herd and data. You can view the new Herd Book by logging into your iCompete account and clicking the Herd Book button. Registrations from embryo transfers/flushes are working on a case-by-case basis . If you are having issues registering flush kids, please click the Report a Problem button at the top of this page, and let us know how we can help you. Registrations from a purchased bred doe are not working as expected . The breeder field populates as the current owner. Changing the breeder returns an error. Complete the registration with the applicant's information listed as the breeder and owner, and we will correct it during the manual validation process. Data Errors. Due to more than 13 million animals, plus member and show data being transferred to our new system, some data transferred over incorrectly. No data was lost. We are working on getting that data corrected. If you see incorrect information on your account or owned animals, click the Report a Problem button and let us know. Herd Book Updates. We are currently working on the Herd Book, and archived show and points data to reflect more data, as it did on the "blue screen." Please allow some time for these updates to be made. Visual Inspections. We can record Visual Inspections, but are still unable to print Visual Inspection Certificates, or print Visual Inspection results on registration certificates. Listing Papers. We are unable to print listing papers at this time. If you have trouble registering a listing paper animal, or trouble registering offspring from a listing paper animal, please contact the office. Herd Disposal/Management . Herd disposal, or marking your animals as dead, sold, etc. is only available to staff at this time. If you would like to update your animals, send a list by clicking the Report a Problem button and completing the form. Be sure to include your animal's name, registration number, and status. Transactions. There is currently no transactions page for members. If you would like a report of your transactions, please contact the ABGA office. This feature is currently being worked on. Payment for work done in the office. The iCompete developers are currently working on a payment system for work done in the office. Currently, you will receive an invoice in your email if you did not provide payment up front.

2021 National Show Results Filter by Show Select Show Owner Residence Bred & Owned Animal Name Sire Dam Kendra Myers North Dakota N 10879198 SBHC BIMINI BON BULASH NGC-21 10807929 OTHER ABGA Grand Champion Junior Percentage Doe Owner Residence Bred & Owned Animal Name Sire Dam Cara Cummins Oklahoma N 10877471 BOU1 AFB2 SOMETHING RED GOIN ON 10772937 BOER X ABGA Reserve Champion Junior Percentage Does Owner Residence Bred & Owned Animal Name Sire Dam Lauren Taylor Arkansas N 10847688 JJ07 JJ BOER GOATS LADY IN RED 10804612 10833866 ABGA Grand Champion Yearling Percentage Doe Owner Residence Bred & Owned Animal Name Sire Dam Elijah Merrill Indiana N 10835958 2MBG 2M BOER GOATS RED LIGHT QU 10802432 BOER X ABGA Reserve Champion Yearling Percentage Does All ABGA Open Show Results All JABGA Show Results

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SIRE OF MERIT 10706808 CRI COPPER CREEK CRIMSON PIRATE Buck 8/4/23 Ashley Roles, Scot Wood Becki Crighton 10835729 RBMG THE IRISHMAN Buck 8/4/23 Amber Reed, Matthew Carlberg Jr, Jaden Reed, K & Kyran Larner Madeline Curdie 10864725 VTZ BEYOND SMOKIN RICHIE Buck 8/4/23 Garin Cooper Vicki, Trystin & Zane Hoecher-Imig, Gielissen 10883470 SLBNK YOAKUMS TRENDSETTER Buck 8/4/23 Aaron Yoakum Aaron Yoakum 10772937 AFB2 MY PRETTY PONY Buck 7/16/23 Connor Lundy Mark Fraser 10703346 EKB1 THE MYSTERY MACHINE Buck 6/13/23 Eden Basford Eden Basford 10715451 HJA ALL IN F633 Buck 6/13/23 Jennifer Panowicz, Kaitlin Panowicz Haley J Alden 10829675 ADVBG EXECUTIVE DECISION Buck 5/1/23 Steve & Anita Dahnke Denise Crabtree 10647335 RM 1416 (RAMP) ANSWERED PRAYERS Buck 12/31/22 Shelley Coble Roger McSwain 10810725 MM7 CORONA Buck 12/31/22 Thomas, Jacqueline, Ike & Isaac Cruz Redden Sandra Egger 10812022 BMACK FLYIN HIGH Buck 12/31/22 Tassi Jo Fadely B-Mack Farms LLC 10811078 STILLHOUSE HEY BARTENDER Buck 10/31/22 Amy Batson Amy Batson Reg. # Goat's Name Sex Award Date Owner Breeder Load More The Sire of Merit Award is open to ABGA registered Fullblood and American Purebred Bucks.

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Advancing the American Boer Goat Breed. Learn More Donate to ABGF Your donation goes toward advancing the education and development of the American Boer Goat Association's members, its Junior members, and to advance scientific research of the Boer goat breed. Donate ABGF is a fully tax-deductible charitable organization under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Section 501(c)(3) Donate to ABGA Your donation to the American Boer Goat Association goes toward operational expenses, networking and outreach efforts, and membership programs and services to protect, record, and promote the Boer goat breed. Donate

The industry standard gestation length for Boer Goats is 150 days. Expected Kidding Date: Gestation Calculator