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Sky & Deborah Shivers are pictured with their pen of bucks, including the 4th place buck #47. The Shivers also won for Grand Champion Herdsman for the best overall ADG for the top 2 bucks in their pen. Breed: Kiko
State: Oklahoma
Sam and Carol Stafford are pictured with their 3rd place buck #36. Breed: Texas Genemaster
State: Texas
DeWayne Maloy is pictured with his Reserve Grand buck #27. Breed: Boer
State: Oklahoma
Terry Hankins is pictured with his pen of bucks, including the Grand Champion buck # 42. Breed: Kiko
State: Mississippi
The buck test has ended for this year. We loaded up the last bucks on Sunday and are already looking forward to next years test. Below I have posted the results of the test along with the forage samples, weather, etc. that were passed out to the participants at the field day on Saturday.
Click on the images to enlarge them. In a following post I will put up pictures of the winners and their owners. As well as images from the last few days of the test.
Information about next years test will be posted on this blog, along with the Kerr Center website, the OSU Oklahoma Meat Goat website, listed in the Kerr Newsletter and advertised in the Goat Rancher.
I expect that the age requirements will be much the same for next year, so plan for your bucks to be born in early spring if you would like to compete.
Thank you to everyone for participating and can't wait to see you again next year.
Mary
I am attaching the weights that were taken last week. These are not average daily gains, so they are not necessarily the ranking of who is doing the best. I will be posting the average daily gains later next week. We will be taking 2 final weights and averaging them so that we get the most accurate final weight we can. The first weight will be taken Thursday and the second on Friday.
The bucks are doing really well. I can really see a difference in their size and weight now. I also have more pictures to post.
The Dinner for the buck test participants will be Saturday night after the sale. Please plan on joining us. It will be a simple barbeque dinner but we would really like to show our appreciation to you all for this first year.
Mary
