Canadian Goat Society

Action happening! Making it happen! The CGS website at www.goats.ca has now been updated with the following items: -Minutes of Feb 20, 2021 Annual Meeting -Reports of Board Members... -Canadian National Goat Federation report of 2020 activities -Report of Secretary-Manager These reports can all be found in the INFO AND LINKS section of the website! Scroll down in that section and you will find them.

The comment period for the draft code of practice for goats is almost over! February 22nd is the deadline for comments. If you would like to make comments please visit: https://www.nfacc.ca/codes-of-practice/goats The draft code and the process for commenting is explained there!

Hello CGS members! This is a reminder, as posted in our latest newsletter in January, that the Annual Meeting of CGS will take place on SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20TH AT 1:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. The meeting will take the form of a virtual meeting, online. Please contact [email protected] to access info on how to participate in the meeting! Please renew your CGS membership for 2021 if you have not already done so, so that you can take part!... We are at work on many details of presenting the meeting so will have more information over the next 9 days! Looking forward to your participation! .

Update re 2020 CGS registry activity: Registrations up 11%!! Transfers up 30%!! Memberships up 4!... Over 125 new herd names and tattoo combinations registered! We appreciate that processing of registry work accelerated markedly in 2020 as opposed to the latter part of 2019-however; we joyfully accept these statistics! CGS staff and CLRC registry work processing staff look forward to working with you to continue the growth and speed of processing! Let us know how we can help YOU! #ONWARDEVERONWARD #MOTIVATION #PUSHINGFORWARDANDUPWARD #LETSGO #LETSGROW

CGS extends sincere condolences to the Van Camp family of Blackstock, Ontario on the passing of Keith Van Camp. Keith more than earned the reputation and title of being a venerable legend. He and his family and their business partners bred some highly influential Saanen goats under the Kampfire herd name. Keith was also a former CGS classifier. He was a true livestock man with a keen eye, a passion for great animals, the mind of a breeder and active involvement in numerous s...pecies and breeds within species. Thank you, Keith for sharing your passion and wisdom! See more

???? 2021's letter will be a J! Yes the tattoo letter for 2019 was G and for 2020 H.....I is not used as a tattoo letter so kids born between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021 will be correctly tattooed using the year letter J !!! Getting a jump on the New Year, which will be here before we know it!... #whywaitforspringsayitnow #skipaletterthistime Skill testing question: In addition to I what other letters are not used for tattooing?? Hint: There are three more in addition to I !!

Notice from CGS Board In mid-November Canadian National Livestock Records Corporation informed their member associations that the per unit charge for processing registry work was increasing by 2%, effective January 1, 2021. The Board of each member organization had to consider how they would respond to this news. In late 2019 member associations were informed that the unit charge for processing work at CLRC was increasing by 17%. This provoked a detailed examination of the... CGS fee schedule and some noticeable adjustments to fees were made. The CGS Board carefully considered the latest news of the 2% fee increase from CLRC. Their decision was to implement a very modest increase in fees, as of January 1, 2021, to ensure that CGS was staying ahead of increased processing costs. They prefer this route to periodic larger increases in fees. CGS worked with CLRC to review proposed changes to allow CLRC time to program the changes and to update our fee schedule. Any registry work submitted electronically or mailed by December 31st, 2020 will be based on the current fee schedule. Work submitted electronically, or by mail, after January 1, 2021 will be processed based on the new fee schedule. The revised fee schedule is available on the CGS website at www.goats.ca under the INFO and LINKS and in the NEWS section or via the CLRC website at www.clrc.ca and on the CGS page under Associations. Should you have any questions please contact your local director or the CGS office. CGS' Board is determined to operate the association on a businesslike basis. See more

Hours of operation for CGS weeks of Dec. 21st and 28th: Week of December 21st: Available by email and phone till noon Eastern on December 24th Week of December 28th Open for business 8:30 am Eastern to 4:30 pm Eastern December 28, 29, 30th. ... December 31st 8:30 am till noon Eastern. Open again, Monday January 4th. Merry Christmas to all and thank you for the opportunity to serve you! #OnTo2021

DRAFT CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CARE AND HANDLING OF GOATS IS RELEASED On Friday, December 18th a draft version of the national code of practice for care and handling of goats was released. Release of this draft version of the code represents a huge step forward in updating and enhancing the current code of practice which was released in 2003. Goat producers, representing the meat,dairy and fibre segments of goat production were engaged in an enormous amount of work creating this ...draft. They were joined in their work by industry experts in animal health and care. The time has arrived for YOU to study this draft version and make any comments you have about the content! The comment period is open until FEBRUARY 22, 2021. You are encouraged to make relevant comments about any aspect/s of the code. Accessing the code online and providing your input is simple! Click on the link and follow the instructions: https://www.nfacc.ca/codes-of-practice/goats Just click on the red box on the top right of the screen and you will be directed to the survey page where you can enter your comments! This is a very important development for all segments of the goat industry in Canada. You are invited and encouraged to review the content of the draft and to comment where appropriate! Thank you! Your input is welcome!!

Indeed! Why not shout this news from the very rooftops! CLRC staff have provided us with registry processing stats to the end of October 2020. These stats tell a very interesting story when compared to 2019 year to date (YTD) and all of 2019. Take a gander, a peek or whatever you would like, but please take a look and be inspired!... Registrations after ten months, are UP 13.5% over 2019 YTD and are at 95.5% of all of 2019! At the end of September they were at 87% of all of 2019! Transfers are UP a whopping 47% over 2019 YTD AND are at 113% of all of 2019 already! Memberships are UP 5.3% over 2019 YTD and are at 103% of all of 2019! Registrations of herd prefixes and tattoo combinations are UP 55% over 2019 YTD! Units processed by CGS staff on behalf of CGS are UP 21% over 2019 YTD and are at 101% of 2019 in total! We thank CLRC staff on the CGS desk for a spectacular rise in work processed! Can hardly wait to see what the year end numbers look like in two months time! THANKS to CGS members for flourishing use of core services of the association! You are part of something very exciting!!!! #rolling #winning #FlippingTheScript

November is going to be a great month! The CGS Quarterly is now available via the CGS website at www.goats.ca !! Hard copies are being printed as we speak! 40 pages chock full of information! And more to come! ... We only had so much room for editorial copy so a newsletter with more results and updates is in production right now! We are aware that given the volume of information in this publication errors and omissions may appear-please let us know what needs amendment and we will amend in upcoming newsletters! The Board is also hard at work on other material for the website! Stay tuned! #itishere #letthebellsringoutandthebannersfly At the website click on info and links and you'll see Publications appear-go there! There will soon be a link in the latest news section too! #LetsGo

We have just had details about the 2021 West National Show uploaded to the CGS website at www.goats.ca . The hosts in British Columbia have brilliantly re-jigged plans for the proposed 2020 show with even better plans for a blockbuster event at Duncan, BC in late July next year! Full three day program with some very original awards and events! Check it out!... #WestNationals21

We are so excited to announce that last evening two more documents were loaded onto the Canadian Goat Society website at www.goats.ca !!! Now available in the SHOWS section of the website are a revised manual on Judging Dairy Goats with an abundance of "how to" information AND a revised list of CGS Licensed Judges! The Judges Manual, and our Classification Manual, also on the website, are tools to help you learn how to evaluate dairy animals! Check them out!... #stepbystep #gettingthere

We are pleased to report that CGS President Sandy Howell was elected to the Board of CLRC earlier this month!We are pleased to report that CGS President Sandy Howell was elected to the Board of CLRC earlier this month!