NWCA - CGA Fleece Competition

                                                   September 21, 2025

                                                     Greenwich, NY

The joint CGA/NWCA Fleece Competition for 2025 will be held at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Greenwich, NY, on Sunday, September 21st, in conjunction with the annual CGA Goat Show.    

Fleeces will be evaluated on each of the elements that have been identified in the North American Cashmere Goat standard, which include fiber diameter, style, differentiation, length, uniformity (consistency), yield, and the total down weight of the fleece.  Participants will receive a scorecard with a detailed record of the evaluation, and goats whose scores meet the North American Cashmere Goat standard for fleece quality will become eligible for registration in the CGA Cashmere Goat Registry.

Pam Marshall will serve as judge.

To enter a fleece in the competition, please complete the entry form found here.    

Please complete an entry form for every fleece to be entered, keeping track of the number of goats entered as you proceed.   Please enclose a check (made out to the CGA) for the total due with your fleece entries.

The fee for each entry in the goat show or fleece competition is $10.  (Part of the fee covers the postage for returned fleeces.)    If you are participating in the goat show, your $10 fee for entry in the show covers your inclusion in the fleece judging.

If you wish to submit a fleece for assessment without entering it into the competition, select that option on the form and the fee is only $5. 

Here are the rules for selecting and preparing the fleeces:

1.       Fleeces should be clean and free of noticeable vegetable matter.

2.       Fleeces should be from the 2025 harvest.

3.       Fleeces should not be dehaired or washed.

4.       Fleeces may be combed or shorn.

5.       The entire fleece should be included, not just a sample.

6.       The complete fleece should be submitted in a one or two gallon Ziploc bag.  If the fleece is too large to fit into one bag (congratulations!), two bags can be used, with explanatory notes enclosed in both.   Please don’t write anything on the bag itself.

7.       Inside each bag, enclose an index card with the following information:

a.       Owner Name  and email address

b.       Goat’s Herd code and name

c.       Goat’s sex and year of birth

8.       Unless you will be present in Greenwich to collect the fleeces after the show, please enclose a second card in the box with your name and address so that we will have a handy mailing label when we mail the fleece back to you after the competition.

9.       Please limit competition entries to 3 per sex/year of birth.

Fleeces for competition and/or assessment should be mailed to 

Cody Sargen  450 North Creek Rd. Greenfield Center, NY 12833

All fleeces must be received by September 18th (including fleeces for goats entered in the show), so we recommend mailing fleeces by September 11th. 

If you enter the competition or submit a fleece for assessment and the goat is judged to be qualified for the registry, you will be able to enter them into the database. Unless the goat is already on the database, first use the Add New Goat as Registry Candidate function on https://www.cashmeregoatassociation.info to enter data on the goat’s date of birth, color, pedigree, etc.   Then choose the "Enter Evaluation for registry" function to enter data from the scorecard.  PLEASE BE SURE TO UPLOAD A SCAN OF THE SCORECARD with the entry.     (See https://cashmeregoatassociation.org/post/_docs/Registration_Process2020.pdf  for details on the steps one takes to register a goat.)