Events
A&P Shows and Field days take place throughout the year all over the country and are a great opportunity to showcase our breed. All our breeders are encouraged to present their animals when they can.
The year culminates in the annual South Island Championships in Christchurch during the Canterbury A&P Show, formerly New Zealand Agricultural Show, in November. Judging takes place on the second day of the show and we welcome the public to come and take a good look at our beautiful animals for the remainder of the show.
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The 2025 Canterbury A&P Show again hosted the South Island Boer Goat Championships after a pause in 2024. We were fortunate to have Carole Axton here, who is a level 2 Judge from Queensland, Australia. The show was well attended by our members with 5 breeders showing over 53 entries.
We would like to acknowledge the sponsorship of BioWorma from International Animal Health products and thank Eliza and Shannon who presented their product to the Champions of the show. Judging was well attended by the public and a lot of visitors came to see us at the pens afterwards.
Big congratulations to John and Sandra Binney from Wanaka, whose 3-year-old buck, CRU22/720 was awarded Supreme Boer Goat.
A special thank you as well to our ring stewards, who had everything running like clockwork during the day.
The 2025 Wanaka A&P Show was held on 7 and 8 March with NZBGBA represented by three breeders and 24 goats. Unfortunately, a stalwart of the show Wynn Cruickshank, was bedridden and this impacted stock numbers. Supreme Champion went to Christine Lear’s beautifully presented 2023 doe Tinkerbell. The judge was Geoff Mitchell from Coomboona Boer Stud in Australia. Geoff spent considerable time talking to breeders about their animals and the direction the breed is heading in Australia. With more than 40,000 people attending this show it certainly helps raise the public profile of Boer goats.
The 2024 Wanaka A&P Show was held on the 8th and 9th March 2024 in the usual stunning location and in perfect weather. Boer goat entries were comparable to last year with goats shown by 3 of the South Island breeders. An additional entry gate for the public right next to our stand brought a lot of visitors through our exhibit. There were several mature bucks on show that again proved to be a major attraction to the public.
Our Judge this year was Warwick Ferguson, a Level 2 judge, who travelled down from the Waikato with Geoff and Tracy Moore from Canterbury as stewards in the ring. We would like to extend a big thank you to them.
The 2023 South Island Boer Goat Championships took place again during the NZ Agricultural Show held in Christchurch. We were able to secure Peter Mitchell, who is a level 3 Senior Judge from Australia with many years’ experience of judging boer goats at high level Australian shows. We would like to thank Peter for his time, comments and advice not just during judging but also time spent with all the exhibitors afterwards.
The show was well attended with 53 entries from 5 breeders and a good selection of animals was presented. Congratulations to the Supreme Champions of both the Standard Boers and the Red Boers. Best Boer Goat in Show and recipient of the Francois Maritz Challenge Trophy was the Standard Senior buck.
A big thank you to our Stewarts and all the helpers in the ring.
The 2023 Wanaka A&P Show was held in fine autumnal weather on the 10th and 11th of March. Boer goat entries were down from the 2021 show with 29 entries from 3 South Island breeders. Goats shown were mainly kids and two tooths but thankfully the late entry provided a better age balance with older does and particularly a mature buck that proved a real attraction to the public.
The boer goat exhibit initiated contact with an overseas buyer, which in due course resulted in an export order for a number of goats from various breeders. This highlights the importance of maintaining a strong Boer goat profile at our regional A&P shows.
Our thanks to Owen Booth who was the judge and to Geoff Moore who ably assisted as steward in the ring.
While numbers were down, it also appeared that the winter had been hard on the goats.
It was good though to have our breed back in the ring as the previous two shows were cancelled due to Covid19 restrictions.
Congratulations to the Standard Boer Goat Supreme Champion and the Red Boer Goat Supreme Champion and to all who won ribbons and participated. This was the first show where we had a separate Supreme Champion for both colours which meant one of those was chosen as Best of Breed. This was chosen to be the Traditional coloured doe.
A big 'thank you' to our stewards in the ring for all their assistance.
