Guernsey goat owners and enthusiasts will meet later this week to support the island’s unique breed of ruminant.
The Royal Golden Guernsey Goat Breed Society is inviting anyone who owns, wants to own, or is “simply passionate about helping preserve this special breed” to its AGM on Friday.
A spokesperson said said the RGGGS “needs your support to help safeguard both the breed and the society here on our island”.
The meeting – at the Border Developments offices in St Sampson‘s – will take place at 19:30 on Friday 27 February.
Parking is available at Aladdin’s Cave with permission.
Royal glow up
As if being a ‘golden’ goat wasn’t fancy enough, Guernsey’s national breed got a regal glow up in 2024, when King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the bailiwick.
The first symposium for the newly-renamed Royal Guernsey Golden Goat, last October, highlighted the challenges facing the breed as well as the opportunities for it to “thrive”.
The “highly-Instagrammable” goats – which are bred as far away as the west coast of America – have an “incredible character”, Seatle-based breeder Sarah Owens told Express in October.
However everyone involved had a “part to play” if the breed was to survive, according to Sir Richard Cripwell, Guernsey’s Lieutenant-Governor.
“What happens next depends on our collective will to turn plans into action,” he added.