Long Show Goats

07/25/2025

We are so proud of our girls for their love for showing their animals and keeping the faith despite the setbacks last month. Even though we weren’t sure then we would even have goats alive for fair, we ended up with great results, for this final breeding year for us:

📍Butler County Fair (Ohio)

Ainsley Long
🏆 5th Overall Goat Showmanship (age class 2nd place)
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Makaylin Long
🏆 Showmanship age class winner
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🧬Wether: It’s Up to Me x Tunnel Vision
Shown by Makaylin Long

♦️Open Class Market Show
🏆 Reserve Champion Overall (Grand Champion Heavyweight Division)

♦️ Junior Fair Market Show
🏆 Reserve Champion Heavyweight Division

♦️ Born & Raised Market Show
🏆 5th overall (3rd Heavyweight Division)

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🧬 Doe: Big Al x 1-Up
Shown by Ainsley Long

♦️ Born & Raised Market Show
🏆 Reserve Champion Overall (Reserve Champion Heavyweight Division)

♦️ Open Class Market Show
🏆 Reserve Champion Heavyweight Division

♦️ Junior Fair Market Show
🏆 Class winner

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Doe: It’s Up to Me x Tunnel Vision

♦️Junior Fair Boer Doe Show
🏆 Grand Champion Overall
(Grand Champion Junior Division)

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Doe: Robin Hood x (Godfather x Outlaw 249)

♦️ Junior Fair Boer Doe Show
🏆 Reserve Champion Junior Division

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🧬 Wether: It’s Up to Me x (Wiz x Lil Wiz)
Shown by Ainsley Long

♦️Open Class Market Show
🏆 1st in class

♦️Junior Fair Market Show
🏆 2nd in class

♦️Born & Raised Market Show
🏆 1st in class

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🧬Wether: sired by our buck, T**d (Cheap Trick X Mozart)
Shown by Makaylin Long

♦️ Junior Fair Market Show
🏆 3rd in class

♦️ Born & Raised Market Show
🏆 2nd in class

03/06/2025

James Maynard also has an open house this weekend. If you are still looking, be sure to get out to these open houses this weekend!

🟣 Open House – This Weekend! 🟣

We’re excited to see everyone and show off the set for our March 11 online sale! Stop by to catch up and take a look!

10/11/2024

Some of our goats got to see the Northern lights tonight!

07/27/2024

A successful and extremely blessed fair week for our family! Thanks to their buyers, Dr. Erica Mathieu and Family (Ainsley) + our friends at Catalyst 6 Enterprises LLC (Makaylin). We had 4 goats with final drive results! :

📍Butler County Fair
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🧬Wether: Chatter x Authentic
Shown by Ainsley Long
🏆 Grand Champion Born & Raised Market Goat
🏆 3rd Overall Jr Fair Market Goat
🏆Grand Champion Open Show Market Goat
🏆4th Overall Goat Showman of Showmen and age class winner
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🧬 Doe: Chatter x Godfather
Shown by Makaylin Long
🏆 Grand Champion Jr Fair Boer Market Doe
🏆3rd Overall Goat Showman of Showmen and age class winner
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🧬Wether sired by Joint Custody
Shown by Makaylin Long
🏆 4th Overall/Heavyweight Reserve Champion Born & Raised Market Goat
🏆 Class winner Open Show Market Goat
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🧬 Doe sired by our buck, T**d (Cheap Trick X Mozart)
Shown by Ainsley Long
🏆Class winner Born & Raised Market Goat
🏆 5th Overall Jr Fair Market Goat/Middleweight Champion
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07/26/2024

Our daughter’s cool little “tie dye” paint wether this year has a great story I want to tell. He had a rough start and an amazing finish. It’s a little long, but stick with me here.

Jeff had to go in to work early the Saturday morning before he was off for kidding week. So he went out to feed earlier than he typically would have on a Saturday and found the wether laying in the middle of the pen at 4am. Believing him dead, Jeff went to scoop him up to remove. He let out a little squeak. As if to say, “Don’t give up on me!!!”.

His body was about 5 degrees below normal, so Jeff spent an hour heating him with a blow dryer in a garbage bag (with his head out of course) and I took over for another hour so he could go to work. Had Jeff not been asked to work Saturday, he would have went out a couple hours later than he did and the wether probably would have been dead when he was found.

After getting him up to temp and putting him in his heating barrel, I went to let the girls know I was in the barn. My youngest daughter came with me and helped get the mom’s milk started and put him on her. (Who was a first time mom and must have had a hard go - she was laying elsewhere worn out when Jeff came out.)

My oldest daughter fell in love at first sight when she came out. He reminded her of her grand champion born & raised from the year prior year.

The wether couldn’t walk for days upon days. His legs were so stiff. We had to get him up and put him on mom around the clock. But over time, he started walking and he looked really nice.

But then shortly before weaning, he started not thriving again. If you are around Butler County, you know how hard it is to find a goat vet. But thank goodness for finding Dr. Brissey! We took him to her and found he had almost white famacha (color in inner eye lid), indicating a pretty heavy level of worms and very low iron. Which was a learning lesson for us - they don’t get immunity from mom.

He finished up his meds and iron supplements, but it took a while to start looking promising again. But he finally started coming on, and our daughter started working him. Bracing him, washing him, running with him (when it wasn’t raining), putting him on a stand. Hours spent most every day all summer, on top of her figure skating lessons and competitions, as well as summer class work for the 4 upcoming high school honors classes.

He became naturally showy. We clipped him out and he got that tie dye look. He learned to lock in that brace. He learned to prance. She would walk him around with his head high and with prancing feet that sounded like a horse. He knew he was pretty. He’s a head turner.

And he went out in that ring and did everything they practiced. He brought her home some great wins. At the Midwest Goat Series show at Butler County, she was 4th place Intermediate Showman and 3rd place Heavyweight Division winner. At our county fair, he brought her home with 2 Grand Champion banners, a 3rd overall banner, and a 4th place Overall goat showman of showman banner (and age class showmanship win). The last judge called him “picturesque”.

But now the fun ends. Tomorrow the difficult day comes to tell him goodbye. She will leave with an empty halter and heavy heart as she leaves her little friend behind.

And now you all know why she will be crying so hard at that trailer. And me too.

Thanks to all our friends and family for their support and helping us out this year. And thanks to James Maynard for celebrating our wins with our little guy, sired by his Chatter buck.

Over 80% of our does blood tested positive as bred for kids for next fair, so I guess we will have a few months break before we get kids on the ground for next year in November!!!

06/30/2024

Long Show Goats had a good day at the Midwest Wether Goat Series show yesterday:

📍Butler County Boer Goat Classic

🏆Market wether - 1st in class/3rd Heavyweight Division
🧬 Chatter x Authentic
Bred, born & raised by Long Show Goats

🏆 Commercial Doe - 3rd in class
🧬 Chatter x Godfather
Bred, born & raised by Long Show Goats

🏆 Intermediate Showmanship - 4th of 24, Ainsley Long

01/01/2024

07/27/2023

Despite the heat, it was a great week overall for Long Show Goats at the 2023 Butler County Fair market goat shows:

Pig (exhibitor Ainsley Long)
🏆 Grand Champion Overall, Born & Raised
🏆5th Overall, Junior Fair Show

Scout (exhibitor Ainsley Long)
🏆 Reserve Champion Overall, Born & Raised

Clover (exhibitor Makaylin Long)
🏆Lightweight Division Champion, Born & Raised show
🏆Lightweight Division Reserve Champion, Junior Fair show
🏆 Lightweight Division Champion, Open Class Show

Ainsley Long
🏆Reserve Champion Showman for 13 year old age group

Makaylin Long
🏆Reserve Champion Showman for 10 year old age group

07/25/2023

Long Show Goats had a great night Sunday, as the breeder to the 2023 Butler County Born & Raised: Grand Overall, Reserve Overall, AND Lightweight Division Champions.

07/25/2023

Congratulations to Ainsley Long for winning Grand and Reserve Grand Champion in the Born and Raised Show! Congratulations to the breeder: Long Family Show Goats

03/18/2023

It’s official, the June Butler County show is now part of the Midwest Wether Series!