Junior does: We have retained two doelings for our herd from the spring of 2017. They are Francine's daughter, Freyja and Moon's daughter Mayfly.
Mayfly (May) is a second generation experimental mini-Nubian. She is 50% Nubian and 50% Nigerian Dwarf. Our hope is that next fall she will be bred to a lovely higher generation buck who will bring in some great breed character out of a lovely and well known herd. I have a deposit down on him now. :) I'm like a kid at Christmas waiting for him. April has been the best milker in my herd to date. She had a long steady lactation of 14 months as a first freshener. She freshened with twins (one stillborn) in 2015 and with triplet does in 2017. I hope May follows in her mother's footsteps and makes lots of lovely milk for us for many years to come.
Freyja is being registered as a first generation grade mini-Nubian. She is 50% Nigerian Dwarf and 50% Nubian, but because of a lack of papers for her dam, she is registered as 75% Nubian and 25% Nigerian Dwarf. Her dam is not registered, hence the grade status. However, future generations of Freyja's line will benefit from having Fran's lovely genetics. We tragically lost Fran a week ago, but she was a lovely, deep and long doe. She had strong legs, a lovely Roman nose, great medial suspensory ligament that I hope she passes on to her daughter and her future offspring, and the prettiest brown eyes ever. She also had a lovely top line with the nicest rump in my herd. She was a level headed working girl, and will be sorely missed.
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| Freyja, 5 months |
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| Mayfly, 4 months |
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| Freyja, 5 mo. |
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| Mayfly, 4 mo. |
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| Freyja, 4 mo. |
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| Mayfly, 4 mo. |
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| Mayfly, 2 mo. |
Senior does: I really need to spend some time seriously updating photos and information here. Please contact me via the contact button on the home page for more information.
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| April |
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| Moon |
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| April |
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| April |
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| April and Moon |
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| April and Moon |
Ugg, I'm such a bad goat poser and photographer. Bear with me. This is a really pretty girl, and such a milker! This is Moon, who is three this year. She freshened wtih triplets, one of which is Mayfly above. She is a lovely milking doe, and has certainly delivered this season, starting with giving us three pretty doe kids! She milks over 4 pounds a day of lovely rich milk, and I hope to milk her through this year. Her first freshening she milked for over 14 months before I decided I wanted a break and dried her off.
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| Moon, just over three years. Milked out. |
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Moon, milked out. Her udder is lopsided from nursing a single buck
her first freshening. He only nursed on the smaller side. I milked the larger.
It stretched out more from being allowed to get full twice a day. I hoped the other
side would catch up this season, but she nursed triplets so they kept her udder pretty
empty for the first two months. |
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Moon, 10 hours of milk, 4 months fresh. Milked 2 pounds
after taking this photo |
Bucks
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| Mr. Tumnis |
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| Mr. Tumnis |
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| Mr. Tumnis |
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