We caught up with Madison Goecke, exhibitor of the Reserve Grand Champion Market Goat at the 2022 Kentucky State Fair! Learn a little more about Madison below!
Age: 21
Hometown: Augusta, Kentucky
School: Oklahoma State University
Future Plans:
I plan to attend vet school in the Fall of 2023. I want to come home and be a practicing Food Animal Veterinarian.
How many years have you been showing? Do you show any other species?
I have been showing since I could remember, so basically my whole life! Throughout my show career, I have shown pigs, cattle, and goats!
Other hobbies besides showing livestock?
I am on the 2022 OSU Livestock Judging Team, and I enjoy just hanging out with family and friends!
Best stock show memory:
My favorite stock show memory will always be having the privilege of winning Grand and Reserve Market Goats at the 2018 Kentucky State Fair. To this day, I am still the only one who has ever two-holed one of the market shows at our state fair!
Tell us about your recent champion:
My goat is named Skills, and he was bred by Miller Boer Goats in Thorntown, Indiana. He is out of Rafiki, so we kicked it a little old school with him! He was a goofball who we always feared would hurt himself because he loved to jump and play in his pen, but would stop for a head pet and animal crackers!
What is one word that describes the feelings you had stepping foot into the Grand Drive?
Grateful.
I am grateful to have grown up in an industry that has given me so much. This was my last time showing as a junior exhibitor, so it was a bittersweet moment.
Favorite Livestock Show:
Kentucky State Fair
I love national shows, but there’s nothing like the green shavings in the middle of August!
THIS OR THAT
Washing or Clipping
Washing
Halter Breaking or Training to Brace
Halter Breaking
Banners or Buckles
Banners
Cleaning Pens or Changing/Cleaning Water Buckets
Changing/Cleaning Water Buckets
