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Dragonfly Farm Reference
Does |
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updated
1/22/12
These
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DOB
1/3/04 |
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LA:
2009 VEEE 90 |
1/3/04
--6/6/11
(Left photo
by Lorene Toth) Chiaroscuro was without question one of the most
beautiful and correct Nigerian Dwarf does I have ever seen. I
nicknamed her "Chiara the Invisible" for her completely
mysterious poor showing in the show ring in 2009, as she has failed
to even earn first in her class in 4 shows and counting (yes,
the above photos are from 2009, as is the likewise non-winning
dairy herd --click the rear view for a link to the photo.)Like
Party, Chiara had a little trouble reconciling herself to being
a dairy goat, but she was more than worth the trouble. Her second
freshening udder was so much better than her first that I consider
her a cautionary tale about making decisions about a first freshener
too hastily. Her udder is very capacious, and when full, it absolutely
does not move, and the rear view is just beautiful, even when
the doe is at a dead run. I know this for sure because early in
her milking career, she demonstrated it to me each day at milking
time. Eventually, she seemed to have decided it was part of the
routine, as she made me make exactly 3 circuits of the pen before
stopping dead and waiting for me. I think by the end, we were
partners, and we were certainly very fond of each other. She leaves
behind here only her gorgeous son by Halifax, Hallelujah,
but that promises to be a significant legacy. As always, thanks
Kellye, for breeding such beauties and for sending them my way;
I am sorry I could not save her. For more photos and information,
click here to go to her page.
Show
record: 4 x 1st (out of 5 times shown as a junior doe); 1 x GCHJr,
2 x BOB Jr, 1 x GCH Sr doe (did not receive the leg because the
ADGA office had reversed her tattoos; apparently this is not grounds
for restoring the leg, despite the fact that the tattoos on the
show report match those known to appear on the correct registration
papers, and everyone agrees that they do)
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4/3/02 -- 7/17/11
We lost
our beloved Rosie to heart failure after we thought we had pulled
her through severe pneumonia. For more pictures and information,
click here to go to
her page.
Show
record: 1 x GCH Jr. doe |
DOB
5/24/08 |
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LA
2010 ++V+ 82 |
5/24/08 -- 4/11/11
Named
for the Roman goddess of fire and the hearth...and thank goodness
she did not remain a virgin. Vesta had the trademark stretch and
style we always see in Kestrel's kids, plus the very tight shoulders
and elbows that Hal reliably produced. When Judge Barb Norcross
named her Best Junior Doe in Show in New Boston, 2009, she remarked
that Vesta strolled around the ring like a runway model. She was
always well aware of how beautiful she was. Vesta's
first udder was pretty much all I could have hoped for, and I
had expected her to be spectacular when she was mature. Alas,
it was not to be. She had a nearly perfect rear udder--height,
width, and the smooth blending into the escutcheon that is all
too rare in Nigerians. The photo above right says it all on that
score. For more photos and information, click here
to go to her page.
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(Photo by Declan
Dean.)I don't know what got into me, it's not like I don't have
enough goats, but I just could not resist this breeding and her
fellow traveller, Apogee. I just love what Algedi Farm is doing
with their bloodlines, and I am thrilled to have this beautiful
lady here. Thanks so much to Tamara and Kalee for letting me have
her! Her name is in the honey theme--medovina is a type of honey
wine, and she is sweet indeed. Sadly (very, very sadly) Medovina turns out to be a freemartin. Sigh. I will be using her nephew Solaris to bat clean up this kidding season (2011-2012) so hopefully her bloodlines will be represented here despite her infirmity.
Show
record: (shown once) 1 x 1st, 1 X GCH Jr Doe (HOMDGA Spring show,
May, 2010, judge Tom Considine) |
Dragonfly
FC First Flight |
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Pictured August,
2006. Flight was named by the daughter of a friend, who soloed
in a sailplane for the first time just after Flight came to live
with them. Flight was very eye-catching, and did very well in
the show ring as a kid. She was the spitting
image of her dam at the same age. Bred to Hunk; delivered
buck doe twins 7/28/06.
As a yearling first freshener, she won her class 7 in a row, and
was only beaten once, by her herdmate Thalia. She was recently
the sensation of an ADGA show we attended--the onlookers were
very taken with our little miniature "deer" and were
very complimentary of her udder. In a recent unofficial classification
she earned an excellent rating for her dairy character and mammary
system and an high VG overall. We lost Flight to listeria, and
we really miss her--she was as sweet as she was beautiful.
Show
Record: 1st x 8, 1 x GCH Jr Doe
2006
ANDDA All-American Milking doe under 2 years
extended
pedigree
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Littermate sister
to our lost beautiful First
Flight, we were lucky to get Declare back in June of 2007. She
looks a lot different than she did in her baby pictures--believe
it or not, she's a chocolate buckskin, but could easily be mistaken
for a solid chocolate goat. I have found out the hard way that you
can not change this doe's routine one iota, or she stops eating.
She remains one of our harder keepers, and is nicknamed "The
Whippet", because there is not a spare ounce of fat on her.
Despite her low LA score, she is actually very graceful and well
put together, and I believe maturity will reveal the potential that
I see in her. For more photos and information, click here
to go to her page.
Declare
is For Sale, $500.00--Sale pending |
(Photos by
Jim McGonagle.) I really love this doe. She is out of Calli, my
best goat friend, and more than that, she has that special spark
and charisma that her dam had from the first day. I even forgive
her for being roaned--on her it looks good. We have retained her
2006 daughter by Hunk, Merlin.
Bred to Lancelot; delivered quads,
2 does and 2 bucks, 5/31/07. She lacks in the area of strength
of medial suspensory ligament, and was sold as a family milker
and brood doe to Cindy Bachand. Thanks, Cindy!
Show
Record: 5 x 1st, 1 x GCH Jr Doe (ADGA), 1 x GCH Jr Doe (AGS)
extended
pedigree
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(Photo by Lorene
Toth.)This doe is a tight linebreeding on Twink's Pixie, and in
particular, her very well known grandson, Bay Watch. Very striking
and always near the top of her class. The usual nice width in
the rear that we see from both Giacomo and Chiara, very long body,
very level, very very outspoken. Yes, those big ear protectors
in the milk room are there just for her. Well, for me, when clipping
her. Oh, I do hope she is bred this year. For
more photos and information, click here
to go to her page.
Show
record: 3 x 1st, 1 x RGH Jr Doe (2008, Robert Spitzer)
Died
after kidding, 6/8/10, probably of a ruptured uterus.
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12/ 14/03 |
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Erin's sire,
Leprechaun, was still siring kids at 14 years old (see our own
Ceili, who is exceptional),
and we love our other Leprechaun daughter, Salutations.
Erin's dam, Sunshine, finished her MCH (with her 4th leg) at 9
years old and 9 months fresh. Sadly, Sunshine died shortly
after that, so this doe is even more valuable. For more pictures
and information, click here
to go to her page.
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Chloe
is our favorite Funny Cide daughter from 2004, and the first kid
we kept out of Clio. If she has her dam's capacity and productivity,
and her paternal granddam's attachments, she should be a milking
powerhouse. Now if I could only stop mixing up her name with her
mother's. Chloe now lives with and is co-owned with Karen Elliot
of Black Duck Farm--thanks, Karen!!
extended
pedigree
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Photographed 8/29/05.
As often happens in an outcross, our breedings to Maestro have produced
two distinct types of kids. The first type is very long boned, stretchy,
and elegant, and the second type has great width and depth. Artemis
does not have the elegance we usually look for in our keepers (actually,
she is built kind of like a truck), but is a good example of the
second type, and we are interested in how she will turn out. (For
another example, see Calypso.)
Art was consistently in the top third of her class as a junior.
Bred to Flat Rocks Diamond Rio; delivered
twin does 5/20/06.
Sold because she is not really the style we are looking for, and
her udder did not really make up for that shortcoming--her daughter
by Rio will stay here for now.
extended
pedigree |
| DOB 3/15/02 |
20 7/8"
at 17 months |
HES 70.35
Promising |
Sweet,
elegant Zoe was my son Declan's first goat, and when he decided
that she could move on to another farm so he could keep a doe
kid next year, I found it very hard to part with her. She has
faults, but when you have one of her lovely teats in each hand,
you just don't care. Bred to Rio;
kidded 1/9/06 with buck/doe
twins. Zoe is now herd queen at Black
Duck Farm--thanks, Karen!!
extended
pedigree
Declan
and Zoe, September, 2002
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Amazing
width of escutcheon and between the hocks on this one.
She is an interesting Twink's Pixie/Surprise cross, and all of
the udders in her immediate pedigree are super--here is Virginia's.
Sold--thanks, Shelburne Farm!
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Named for her
strong resemblance to her lovely dam. For
more pictures and information, click here
to go to her page. Sold; thanks, Beth!!
extended
pedigree
Show
record: 1 x 1st, 1 x GCH Jr Doe (2008, Robert Spitzer)
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