 ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine
2*M 2*DDOB 4/3/4 height 20" NDGA:2x GCH, 2x RGCH AGS: 3x GCH, 6x RGCH 11x Best Udder Top 10 in 2006 for Protein!! 2008 LA V+EV 86 2010 LA VVE+ 86
Sire: Twin Creeks BW Rebel w/o a Cause *S Sky has a high escutcheon, a nice front end assembly, is very full in the crops, has length from hips to pins, and good depth of barel. Even though she was dam-raised, she could easily be mistaken for a bottle baby, as she still tries to jump up in my lap- which at her current size is a bit uncomfortable. We are very pleased with her udder- so far, she has accumulated eleven best udder awards over some very tough competition! She has lots of attachment all around, a high rear udder and a smooth foreudder with a strong MSL and nice large plumb teats, and milks down to almost nothing. She has perfect milk stand manners and if, by some strange happenstance, another doe gets to be milked first, Sky will loudly let you know that this is NOT okay, and should not happen again in the near future (if ever).
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 ARMCH Lost Valley TB Infinity 4*D DOB 8/14/4 height 21" 3 x GCH, 1 xRGCH, 1x BU, 3 x BOB 2008 LA: VVEV 87 2010 LA: ++VV 86
Sire: MCH Lost Valley Tae-Bo *S
With both of Infinity's parents being
finished champions, we hoped that she would do as well in the show ring as
they did. We've finally gotten
official confirmation that she has
followed in her parents' footsteps, and is now a finished champion herself. Her background
is full of milkers, and she was able to earn her AR milking star as a first freshener. She has a lovely
udder, with great capacity and nice all around
attachments. She stands incredibly wide in the back with
nice angulation and has good brisket extension. We'd like
to see a little more flatness of bone in those shoulders, and a higher ear
set, but other than that, she's a very nice little
doe.
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Sire: Kaapio Acre's KK Sultan *S Honey has lots of dairy character and is such
a show ring queen- set her up and she won't move; put her in the back of
our truck and she runs right into her crate, eager to get to the
show. I suppose it could have something to do with her knowing just how good she looks. Honey is
well put
together- she's got wonderful feet and legs, and is
long, sharp and has a great front end assembly. Her udder has very
nice shape and texture, with exceptional side attachments, and very easy to milk
orifices. She had to go grand champion a few extra times in order to
finish because her ears somehow kept reabsorbing her tattoos, but she finally got there, becoming a fourth
generation finished champion on her maternal side.
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 CH-MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven VEEE 90DOB 4/3/5
2xGCH Jr., 1x Best Junior
Doe in Show, 5xGCH Sr., 8xRGCH Sr. (one restricted leg), 3x Best Udder
Sire: Promisland CP Yellowjacket
Raven's udder is all I was hoping for and
more. These udder pictures were taken less than two weeks
into her second freshening. She has a very wide and high
rear udder, a smothly blended fore, plumb teats, and excellent
texture. In addition, she walks on very strong feet and legs, has
great spring of rib, smooth blending, lots of femininity, and she levels
out on the move. This little doe isn't terribly people friendly, but she's
getting better all the time, and her kids have all been very friendly. She
has gotten so much better that we're convinced she would be a total lap
goat had she been handled as a kid.
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 SGCH-ARMCH AGS CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91DOB 6/13/6 height 21 1/8" at 6 years 1x Jr.RGCH, 5x GCH, 1x RGCH, 4x BOB, 3x Best Udder Top 10 in 2008 on one day milk test! 2008 LA: VVVE 89 2010 LA: VVEV 89 2011 LA: VEEE 90 2012 LA: VEEE 91 Sire: Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++*S ++*B Ali is the doe I always pull out for show and tell when someone asks what does a very dairy doe look and feel like. Her udder is high, very well attached, with the strongest MSL in our herd and near ideal teat placement. She is quite capacious, and easy to milk with those nicely sized plumb teats, and excellent texture. She has lots of dairy character, with that long lean neck, flat bone, soft pliable skin, proper sweep to her ribs, and angularity. On one day milk test as a first freshener, she produced 4.1lbs of milk to easily earn her milking star, and to earn a spot in the Top Ten one day test for high milk. As a third freshener, she produced quintuplets, which seemed to take a lot out of her, getting her off to a slow start in the milk bucket. At six years, she's still got a high, well attached udder that milks down to almost nothing, and an MSL that just won't quit.
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 SGCH Algedi Farm H Purple Rain 4*M 4*D VEEV 90DOB 3/04/07 height 21" at 3 years 3x GCH Top 10 in 2010 on one day milk test! Top 10 in 2011 on 305 day milk test for milk, protein, and butterfat! 2010 LA: VVEE 90 2011 LA: VEEV 90
Sire: Rosasharn's UMT Hamachi *B
Several years ago I had been in line to get a
doe kid out of Zenith, but there weren't enough doe kids to go around.
When Tamara offered me a chance to pick up this Zenith daughter (a repeat
of the breeding I had wanted a doe kid out of), even though I needed another
doe like I needed a hole in my head, I couldn't turn down the
opportunity. Rain freshened with a very nicely shaped udder- high and
wide, with a broad area of attachment, strong MSL, and super easy to milk
teats. At her first show as a first freshener, she was beat out for
Best of Breed by her six year old dam who is still going VERY
strong.
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 SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard
1*M 3*D VEEE 91DOB 4/13/7 height 21 1/2" at 3 years 4x GCH, 3x BOB, 3x BU 1x RGCH Top 10 in 2008 on one day milk test! Top 10 in 2010 on one day milk test! 2008 LA: VVVV 87 2010 LA: V+EV 88 2011 LA: VEEE 90 2012 LA: VEEE 91
Sire: Lost Valley KW Stetson +*S You know how they say that the camera loved Marilyn Monroe? As much as it loved her, it despises Blizzard- I cannot get a decent shot of this doe- certainly not one that shows off the 38 she scored in rear udder height. Take my word for it though, this is a doe who just keeps getting better with age. She is long and level with nice blending, a great front end assembly, a wide rump, lots of dairyness, and very good angularity. Her udder is well attached and has excellent texture and plumb teats, although I would like to see them a bit larger. She has matured into being one of our larger does with tremendous body capacity and width, though she retains her dairy character at the same time. She earned her milking star at a one day milk test at the AGS National Show where she produced over 4.2lbs- outstanding for a first freshening yearling, and good enough to earn her a spot on the Top 10 high milk for one day test in 2008!
In 2012, Blizzard proved that not only was she standing the test of time by scoring VEEE 91 at five years of age, but that she is passing on her good looks-- her daughters Black Ice (by Guy Noir) and Snownamie (by Harvest Moon) both scored 90 on Linear Appraisal, and finished their permanent championships in the same summer.
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 GCH CRF Castle Rock Tesla 1*M 5*D VVEE 90DOB 2/13/08 3xGCH, 1xRGCH, 2xBU 2010 LA: ++VV 86 2011 LA: VVVE 87 2012 LA: VVEE 90
Sire: Woodhaven Farms Latigo +S
Tesla (named after the electric sports car, not
the band) has been a favorite from the beginning. She is a long, elegant doe, with smoothness of blending, straight front legs, a wide rump and lots of dairy character. Her udder is high and wide with a tremendous area of udder attachment and excellent texture that milks down very well. She has this quiet sense
of dignity about her. She would never think to bleat loudly (for that
would be undignified) rather, she will quietly slip into your lap or
gently nibble at your shirt until you notice she is there. She is pictured here as a first freshener.
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 ARMCH-GCH CRF Castle Rock Tuscan Sun 1*M *D VEEE 90DOB 2/15/8 1x GCH Jr., 3x GCH Sr., 3x BU, 1x RGCH Sr., 3x BOB 2011 LA: VVVV 88 2012 LA: VEEE 90
Sire: Woodhaven Farms Latigo +S
Lots of dairy character, spring of rib,
angularity, with a very strong front end assembly, straight front legs, and one of the better rump angles in our herd. Every time she has been in the show ring, she has gotten complimented on her outstanding general appearance, upstandingness at the withers, and smoothness of blending. She has large milkable teats, wonderful capactiy and udder texture.
Tuscan still had her buns in the oven when we had our 2010 linear appraisal, so she was not able to participate that session.
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 GCH CRF Castle Rock Roxanne 1*M *D AR2461DOB 3/29/8 height 21" at 4 years 3xGCH, 4xRGCH, 2xBOB, 2xBest Udder 2010 LA: ++VV 86 2011 LA: V+VV 87 2012 LA: +VEV 87
Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S Roxanne is a very long necked, angular, and wide doe with good blending and a smoothly blended front end assembly with a flat topline. Even though still small, she has a tremendous amount of width between her hocks on the move- a trait that runs pretty strongly on the maternal side of her family tree. While she is a long bodied doe, I would like to see a little more width of body when viewed from above. She has soft udder texture, good teat placement and size, a strong foreudder, and is very easy to hand milk. As a third freshener, her udder has the width, height, and capacity we've been expecting to see from her.
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 SGCH CRF Castle Rock Penny Wise 1*M 3*D VVEE 90DOB 4/12/08 height 20" at 3 years 3xGCH, 6xBOB Top 10 in 2011 on 305 day milk test for milk, protein, and butterfat! 2010 LA: AVV+ 82 2011 LA: VVEE 88 2012 LA: VVEE 90
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 GCH-ARMCH(pend)CRF Castle Rock Black Ice 2*M 4*D VEEE 90DOB 4/17/08 height 21 3/4" 1xRGCH Jr., 3xGCH, 3xBOB, 4x Best Udder 2011 LA: V+EV 85 2012 LA: VEEE 90
Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S As a kid, Black Ice was a rather unassuming doe who spent most of her time just hanging out at the farm. Finally, I decided to take her to her first show, and oh! the! drama! just to get her to walk out of the field. I was having second thoughts about show time, and wouldn't you know it- she walked into the ring and acted like showing was her favorite thing in the world, and ended up going reserve. What a diva! As a second freshening four year old, she has wonderful capacity, udder texture, high rear udder, medial suspensory ligament, teat placement, a very smoothly blended foreudder, and area of udder attachment. Like most of the does in my Sara line, she milks down extremely well and easily with large teats and open orifices. She has increasing width and depth throughout, her front legs are well placed under her shoulders, with good brisket extension, though ideally, those shoulders would be a bit tighter. Black Ice also has one of the widest rumps in the herd, a trait she shares with her dam.
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 GCH CRF Castle Rock Siren Song 3*M 3*D VVVV 88DOB 3/19/09 height 20 3/4" 3xGCH, 2xRGCH, 1xRGCH Jr 2011 LA: V+VV 86 2012 LA: VVVV 88
Sire: Dragonfly Odyseuss *S
Siren, much like her sisters Lia and Lupe, spent much of her first outting as a junior in the show ring making strong attempts at bipedalism, and did this again as a first freshening two year old. Fortunately, she eventually got used to the show ring, and managed to walk on all four feet long enough to finish her championship. She has freshened with a very capacious udder that has excellent texture (like buttah!), a strong medial, high rear, smooth fore, plumb teats, and is socked on everywhere. She has improved dairy character over her dam, a nice front end assembly, and is deep in the heel with short, high pasturns. She is always determined to get her share of attention when out in the barn yard, and usually walks up and stops right in front of me with an expression of "Ta-da! I have arrived!" on her face.
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 CH CRF Castle Rock Moon River 3*D +EEE 88DOB 3/28/09 2xGCH, 2xRGCH, 2xGCH Jr., 1xRGCH Jr. 2011 LA: +VVV 86 2012 LA: +EEE 88
Sire: Rosasharn's TL Sitka Spruce *S
River, littermate sister of our buck, Harvest Moon, reminds me so much of her dam in both look and personality. She does show more angularity at this age than her dam did, but other wise, is very similar in build, being small, well put together, and having more dairy character than you would expect just from looking at her. She freshened with an udder that is living up to my hopes- high and wide in the rear, a very nice medial, plumb teats, lots of attachment, good capacity, and a smooth foreudder. During our 2012 Linear Appraisal, River scored a 40 in rear udder height, and scored very well in dairyness, foreudder attachment, and rear udder arch. River is also a bit of a ham, which I find endlessly endearing.
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 CH/ARMCH(pend)Castle Rock Sweet Heart 6*D AR2542DOB 2/06/10 height 21 3/4" 3xGCH, 4xRGCH 2011 LA: VV++ 83 2012 LA: +EVV 88
Sire: CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon *S
The beginning of the 2010 kidding season started out very buck-heavy, and I had decided that I'd have to sell Honey Heart's doe kid to fill some reservations. But the longer I looked at this doe, the more I came to realize that I couldn't let her go- she was just too nice to pass up. She's a long stretchy doe who is quite similar to her dam in length and width of body, softness of udder texture, smoothness of blending, and flatness of bone. She has a high, wide udder arch, good teat placement, and good overall area of udder attachment. She also has a flat wide rump and the high thurls we are trying to make more common in the Nigerian gene pool.
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 GCH/ARMCH(pend) Castle Rock Sarafina 2*M 2*D AR2533DOB 2/10/10 height 21 3/4" at 2 1/2 years 3xGCH, 5xRGCH, 3xBOB 2011 LA: VVV+ 85 2012 LA: VEVV 88
Sire: Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay +*S ++*B Sarafina embodies so much of what I am aiming for in my herd. In 2011, she and Annika tied for the highest "dairyness" score in our herd, and Sarafina topped that off with an E for udder texture. She's sharp and elegant with flat bone, wide spacing between the ribs, thin dairy skin, angularity, and one of the best (widest, flatest) rumps in our herd (she got an E on rump during Linear Appraisal). Sarafina has a very good rear udder arch, easily walks around her capacious udder on very sound rear legs. She is a quiet, dignified doe who seems to be the yang to her sister's yin.
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 CH Castle Rock Snownamie 4*D VEEE 90DOB 3/02/10 height 20" 3xGCH, 2xRGCH, 2xBOB, 1xBest Udder 2011 LA: VV++ 84 2012 LA: VEEE 90
Sire: CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon *S
Snownamie has been a favorite from the beginning, and I am quite happy with how she is maturing. She has good smoothness of blending, angularity, length of body, strong scores in dairyness and udder attachment, and an excellent head, though she could use a little more tightness in the shoulders. She is finally behaving herself a bit better in the show ring, allowing the judges to see how nice she looks. She has a very well balanced udder that is held high with a very strong foreudder, excellent udder texture, and teats that are a good size and easy to express. This blue eyed doe is one of our friendliest girls, and she prefers to follow us to the milk room, rather than run ahead as most of the other does do, wagging her tail all the way and looking quite pleased with herself for having some manners.
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