We hope that you will enjoy your visit and join this online community. As a paid member of the Canadian Meat Goat Association, you will have access to participate in all areas of the site, including: Adding your Farm Listing Posting free Classified Ads Adding Industry Resource Links Posting Events on the Calendar Participating in Forum Discussions 2017 CMGA Annual General Meeting & Breeder Education Day CMGA joins Livestock Alliance Partnership 2015 CMGA Show Results Congratulations to all those who participated in 2015 CMGA sanctioned shows! There were a total of 367 goats shown in Quebec, Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the 2016 Annual General Meeting and Producer Education day. Thanks to the speakers and everyone who helped make it a great success. If you were unable to attend please find our annual report here. Greater efficiencies and increased collaboration in store for the goat industry

GHIP performance data results The Goat Herd Improvement Program (GHIP) is a herd performance data program being offered by the Canadian Meat Goat Association in cooperation with Kentucky State University (KySU). Attention all youth show enthusiasts! The CMGA is excited to announce a brand new program for all youth across the nation proudly showing their meat goats at CMGA sanctioned shows and junior shows! The 2016 goat supply summary from Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada. 2016 Members Directory available online 2016 Members Directory is now available on our "Members" page in pdf format for download. 2016 CMGA Board of Directors Current Board of Directors of the Canadian Meat Goat Association The Canadian Meat Goat Association has developed two new brochures. Buyers and Sellers:  WRITE IT DOWN! The Canadian Meat Goat Association is incorporated under the Animal Pedigree Act, which is Federal Law. According to the Act, the seller of a registered animal must provide registration papers transferred into the new owner’s name within six months of the date of sale.

This is the law and will be enforced by the RCMP. Don’t miss this excellent industry publication! Published quarterly, the Canadian Meat Goat Journal is an excellent resource for producers, providing educational and informative articles, management tips, advertising space with national exposure, show results and industry news.drive m7 hoodie The CMGA undertakes program initiatives that are geared to be helpful to producers in improving and marketing their animals and thereby growing the meat goat industry in Canada.mhs hoodies Have you got kids and kids?sons of anarchy clothes dublin Feel free to download our CMGA Youth Activity Books with information, games and activities to help children learn all about goats.baby vest extenders wholesale

If you couldn’t make it out were unable to attend please find our annual report here.ADOPT - a rescued animal Makes an unusual gift for friends & family DONATE - Please help feed and care for our rescued Please consider a monthly donation of around £3 VOLUNTEER & JOB VACANCIES Holidays by the sea at Hillside Hillside Animal Sanctuary was founded in 1995 to help and campaign for animals in need' and most importantly, to bring public awareness to the millions of animals suffering every day in the intensive factory farming industry. Although at Hillside we have given sanctuary to 1600 horses, ponies and donkeys, most of our residents have been rescued Prison Term for slaughterman exposed in Hillside Farm Animal Investigation Please click here for Open Day information CLICK HERE TO VIEW PROGRAMME . . . If you would like a free copy of the above programme, on DVD or Video, please request here... To see the RSPCA's response when we report severe animal suffering on their 'monitored' Freedom Food farms, please watch 'Ducks in Despair' (below)

or click here to read our report Click here to read about further farm animal investigations WE REPORTED FOOT AND MOUTH FARM TWO MONTHS BEFORE DISEASE WAS DETECTED in 2001 . . . Burnside Farm at Heddon-on-the Wall was the subject of a Hillside investigation just two months before the first British case of F&M was detected there. We had received information that there were rotting carcasses amongst live pigs, piglets being eaten alive by other pigs, and sickly-looking pigs indicating the possibility of a disease being present. The Waugh brothers, who ran the farm, had previously been evicted from a pig farm by a local council where pictorial evidence also revealed pigs living in absolute squalor. On arrival at Burnside we could see what we now know may have been the contaminated swill which was being fed to the pigs. We reported our concerns to the appropriate authorities expecting them to fully investigate. The farm was inspected 22nd Dec 2000 by Trading Standards and MAFF.

At the time these government officials claimed they could find no prosecutable offences and simply 'advised' the Waughs to clean up. However, soon after this farm was confirmed to be the source of the F&M outbreak, Mr Waugh was convicted of several charges, including causing unnecessary suffering to animals. Hillside's investigation team have video evidence to prove that time and time again all species of farm animals are routinely left to suffer injury, illness and disease without any care or veterinary treatment. Can we really be surprised that such a serious disease was overlooked when finding sick animals in the intensive factory farming industry is so commonplace? During Christmas, the village where I live, was resounding with the sound of cows bellowing out for their calves. People went about their business seemingly oblivious to the dreadful mental torture those animals were going through. Even Christmas Day churchgoers, in full earshot of the desperate calling, just turned the other cheek.

If it had been a human mother who had been so ruthlessly separated from her baby and been in such distress the whole village would have turned out, trying to help. The cows’ offspring had been deliberately taken away, leaving them suffering the same anguish that any human mother would. I find it hard to believe that people can be so callous to another living creature. The cows that I could only listen to and sympathise with over Christmas were in this state in order to supply humans with beef. Dairy cows suffer the same horrific mental torture when their calves are taken away, and often killed, so that humans can drink the milk intended for their offspring. Wendy Valentine Click to listen Sir David Attenborough, who has become a patron of the Optimum Population Trust, the leading think tank in the UK concerned with the impact of population growth on the environment, said: “I’ve seen wildlife under mounting human pressure all over the world and it’s not just from human economy or technology - behind every threat is the frightening explosion in human numbers.