AGFs Johnson, Germany, and Jones (right to left) plan their lesson for tomorrow’s class on goat assessment. We started our unit at the very beginning. Our six students helped us define multiple parts of the goat’s skeletal anatomy so that we could easily communicate what to be looking at or feeling when assessing an animal. After no more than 30 minutes in the classroom, we led our students out of the classroom and our wonderful herd of goats! We demonstrated how to calmly approach a goat, how to perform a physical assessment, determine BCS and methods of record-keeping which would allow them to observe changes that occur over time. They then were given goats and spent the next 2 hours doing their own assessments, some happily finding that their goats were solid 3’s while others realized that we had purposefully bought some 1’s and 2’s in order to demonstrate the differences. Don’t worry, we told them, after three weeks with us they wil...