I know it's Wednesday, but last Saturday...

Well actually the event was on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the weekend of Waikato's World Agricultural and Pastoral Show, it was also the Royal show, no idea why they call it that! :D We went for a look on the Saturday.

There didn't seem as much there again this year, sadly with each passing year it gets smaller. But still things to see, such as...

Big hamster balls, to shove yer kids into and keep them contained for hours!

Failing that you could attempt to launch them into space!

There was a very tall man with no feet!

And a very small man with no hands!

I told Joe he was to buy this for me, can't imagine why he made a rude noise and walked off..

There were Boer goats, not such a good turn out as in earlier years, many don't show anymore, us included......

What do you call a sheep with no legs?
A cloud!

Absolutely no comment!!!

Some Backpackers......no..... Applepackers.......erm...no...ah yes! Alpacas!

Yum!

Gotta use this for a caption contest I reckon!!
There were little horses......

..and big horses.....

and horses with cart thingies

and some in the shoe shop!

Waihi A&P Show Saturday 14th November 2009

Goats Penned by 9.30am


Yesterday we went to the Waihi Agricultural and Pastoral show with the goats. We had a good day, here are some photos of the day, I took lots so if you want te see more then click here

Late doe kid 2nd place

Early doe kid, 1st & 4th place

Progeny class 2nd place

Champion Junior Doe - Emily

Senior buck, 2nd place and reserve Champion

A good day out and very pleased with the results

More sights from Waikatos World

Just photos in this post................

Waikatos World Agricultural and Pastoral show

Waikatos World Agricultural and Pastoral show, held at Claudelands events centre 30th, 31st October & 1st November. We went with our Boer goats on Saturday 31st October

As promised, photos and a little of how we got on at Waikatos World with the Boers on Saturday.

First class was Doe kid born between 1st June and 1st August 09. I entered Eve and we were placed 5th out of 18 entries. I'm in black with a pink thingie, 4th from left


Next class was doe kid born after 1st August 2009, I entered Ella, we got 3rd place.


Me and Joe about to go in the ring for the Progeny class with Eve and Ella.


Progeny class - and 3 kids, any age or sex, same sire, different dams.I think we were about 5th place in this class


Dutch our buck


Joe with Dutch in the Senior buck 36mths and over class, we didn't do too well here, our fella needs to pack on some more weight.


Our doe kids, Ember(lying down) Eve(left) & Ella(right)


Me with Brea in the Senior doe 36mths and over class. No good in this class either, she was quite small in comparison.


The final class for us, Breeders medal, any 3 goats so long as they were bred by the breeder. We got 2nd place


It was a good day, the weather was great and we were in a vert flash new shed. There is a lot of building work going on at Claudelands just now and so the show was smaller this year and not so much of the extra entertainment going on. I preferred this to be honest it was more like a traditional A&P show thats concentrated on the animals.

Next show a week on Saturday.