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FREE Pygmy Goat Workshop with Robert & Wendy Kinsey
Contact email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tel: 01248 470244

Angela & William Culshaw have kindly offered to host a further workshop on caring for and showing pygmy goats.

Venue: Pearl Farm, Whitchurch Nr Chester
Date: SUNDAY 2nd APRIL 2023, please arrive in time for a 10.30 am start
OPEN TO ALL - PGC members and non-members.

Join Robert and Wendy Kinsey and Pauline Keates to learn more about the following topics:

Agenda

(Tea and coffee on arrival)

Caring for new born kids; caring for dams that have experienced difficult births (including c-sections); triplets; rejected/weak kids.
Disbudding and castration.       
How to care for wethers.
How to recognise faults in goats.
Preparing for the Show Season; what the Judge is looking for and which classes to enter.
Hands on demonstration with pygmy goats.
What is the Pygmy Goat Club Breed Standard?
If you would like to attend this free workshop or if you would like more information or have a subject you would like to be covered, please email Wendy Kinsey at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request an enrolment form no later than 12th March 2023 (or as soon as possible if you've only just seen this notice).
Location Pearl Farm, Whitchurch near Chester
PYGMY GOAT SHOWS 
If you have any updates would you please contact the Show Secretary Jill Osborne on 07813 784673.
Please check dates and details with the relevant show offices or show contacts as these are subject to change.
*To view more details of each individual show please click on the show name (darker font).
Show Secretaries can find a list of PGC JudgesHERE and the PGC Show Rules HERE
 
PYGMY GOAT SHOW ORGANISER & STEWARDS VACANCIES
We are always looking for enthusiastic people to help with the running of the pygmy goat section at shows. Any training needed will be provided. Please contact the Show Secretary Jill on jillozzie@icloud.com if you are interested in becoming a show organiser or steward.
 
** Mid Devon Show, Tiverton **
We would like to thank Alison Stoyle and her family who have organised the very successful Pygmy Goat Section at the Mid Devon Show, Tiverton for several years. The time has come when they need to hand over to a new enthusiatic organiser to run the section from 2025. Could this be you ? Please contact Jill Osborne, Show Secretary to talk it though.  
 
NEW PYGMY GOAT SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS 
If you would like to help set up a pygmy goat exhibition or a pygmy goat show at your local agricultural show please contact the Show Secretary Jill on jillozzie@icloud.com.