WIS-IL

Joe Brown and Lisa Heinen are developing a web page for WIS-IL. The address is www.crownspecialtymouldings.com\wisil.htm. Why the strange address? In order to have a web page at no charge, it is being done as an extension to an already existing web page (thank you Joe’s dad).

Some of the information we would like to include on the website is:

· WIS-IL membership directory (including name, farm name, mailing address, phone number, email address)

· breeder’s directory (farm name and breeds of goats)

· links to websites members find useful

· calendar of events and shows

· minutes from WIS-IL meetings

· WIS-IL newsletters

· for sale page (updated frequently)

We would like a lot of feedback and suggestions for the website. At this point it is a work in progress. Please email Joe and Lisa at werpknarly@centurytel.net.

This and That

· ADGA registration fees will go up $1.00 between April 1^st and September 1^st. If possible register your kids before April 1^st. This will help take off some of the pressure of the summer rush.

· Dairy goat tattoo letter for year 2004 is “T” 2005 will be “V”

· Please don’t forget your WIS-IL dues

· If you’re looking to buy a kid this spring, now’s the time to call those breeders

· Go to open goat shows! Even if you don’t show, you can see some top animals.

· Don’t forget to check the Wisconsin Dairy Goat Assoc. web site! www.wdga.org

Attention Artists::::::::

We have tossed around the idea of having a mascot for WIS-IL, for t-shirts, etc. Here is one suggested mascot, please give us feed back on it. Or, if you have a mascot idea of your own please let us know. If we develop our own mascot we can put it on letterhead, t-shirts, posters, whatever, and would not need to worry about copyrights. Input is needed!

WIS-IL Officers and Board of Directors

President Randy Adamson

Vice President Della Ends

Sec/Treasurer Dixie Johnson

Directors Val Heider

Jackie Schultze

Newsletter Lisa Heinen

Zooish has animated animal cartoons including cartoon goats.

Goat Links:

Northern Lights Goat Association:

http://www.geocities.com/northernlightsgoat

Informational site for showing wethers. Pictures are of boer wethers, but information applies to any breed. Links on this site to more sites with wether show info.

www.showwethers.net

American Dairy Goat Association

www.adga.org

Wisconsin Dairy Goat Association

www.wdga.org

American Meat Goat Association

www.meatgoats.com

US Boer Goat Association

www.usbga.org

University of Maryland National Goat Handbook (lots of goat info)

www.inform.umd.edu/edres/topic/agrenu/ndd/goat

American Goat Society