Message from the CEO With the show season just around the corner for many of you, I wanted to offer a word to the wise if you utilize the Online Live Service or even the offices electronic notification to generate temporary papers on Friday and or Saturday prior to a show. Because we outsource theis service, we cannot guarantee 100% up time. ABRI, our registry program provider out of Australia, only provides support for their product Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ABRI’s working hours converted into US CST would roughly look like this: ABRI Mon. 8 AM - 5 PM = ABGA Sun. 5 PM – Mon. 2 AM CST ABRI Fri. 8 AM - 5 PM = ABGA Thur. 5 PM – Fri. 2 AM CST
Given the colder than normal winter many of you have been experiencing, I suspect, the 50% minimum for pigment on kids under six months of age will be a blessing for numerous exhibitors come spring. Also, the old gray copy colored Purebred papers have been replaced with new crimson red trimmed papers. With this
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• Changes to the pigment rule for kids under six months of age • Changes to the horn rule for percentage does • Changes to the pastern rule for all goats
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Thus my word of caution is for those like me who, on occasion, have been known to procrastinate. If ABRI’s system fails shortly after they leave the office for the weekend Online Live or even the ABGA office could become unavailable from early Friday morning until late Sunday night. My advice to you is to always have your papers completed by Thursday, if at all possible, so your weekend plan is not interrupted. I would estimate ABRI’s past weekend uptime to have been somewhere near 96% based on their performance over the past three years. However, we have been (and will continue) to notify our membership by email and the website when ABRI is down. While we’re on the subject of things that could have an effect on your coming show season, be sure to review the current breed standards. You should be aware of some recent some changes, including:
in mind both colors are, and will remain, valid. We will not recall the original gray papers. We are simply going to let the crimson red papers phase the gray ones out over time. Some of these changes are simply attributed to the association and the industry's growth over the past two decades. It is hard to believe that this year marks the 25th ABGA National Show and the plan is make this year’s show special as we celebrate this anniversary. The format for the JABGA National Show has been expanded and the prize packages for them has been enhanced. Thank you all of those of you that have generous in your support of all the recent changes to both the JABGA Reginal and National programs. Without all of you a lot of what has happened in these past two years would not be possible. But, we can always use donations for the silent and live JABGA auctions as we continue to grow and expand to make our youth a bigger part of our industry.
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