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In 2008 Paco became one of
the few ++*S bucks! Thanks to all of the owners of his progeny that
contributed to this accomplishment!!
Paco sired the first kids
born here. When Judy Veale offered him to me I jumped at the chance
to give him a home. Paco produces beautiful general appearance,
improved capacity and attachments, excellent feet and legs, and
sweet, gentle, milkable temperments. His offspring all have a characteristic
elegant, uphill profile with very high withers. He has two MCH daughters:
MCH Old Mountain
Farm Dubonnet, bred by Cheryle Moore-Smith, and our own MCH
Dragonfly Calliope *D E. A third daughter, the beautiful Fairlea
Ariel, has three GCH legs but only received two, because of
missing tattoos. Paco is also the sire of the stunning ARMCH
Rosasharn's Tiger L *S E (4xRGCH, 3xGCH Buck). Paco had three
daughters earn their stars in a one-day milk test in 2004; two of
them had scores that put them in the top ten of one-day test scores
for the breed that year. As a result, not only did Paco earn his
+S, but his famous sire, Raising Arizona, now has his second plus
as well. His daughter Fairlea
Troy was GCH Junior Doe under judge Jeff Klein at the ANDDA
Nigerian Dwarf Specialty at the 2005 AGS National Convention, and
Paco also won his fourth Best
Get of Sire award at the same show. After yet another Get of
Sire win at our last show of the 2005 season, we were pleased to
learn that Paco had won the 2005 Tom Thumb award, sponsored by Has
It All Farm, for the most Get of Sire wins in a show season. He
had yet another daughter, Fairlea Florence, win her junior leg at
that same show.
It is fairly plain at this
point that Paco is firing blanks, as it were, and barring a miracle,
there will be no more naturally sired tots about. We
do have some semen frozen and at some point in the future, he may
yet sire some more kids. For now, he lives with the does, and goes
around all day with a very satisfied expression on his face.
Show record: 10 x
1st, 3 x 2nd place Get of Sire, 2005 Tom Thumb Award Winner, 1 x
RJrCH Buck
extended
pedigree
photo courtesy
of Cheryle Moore-Smith
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Hunk
is a perfect gentleman, and has a certain aromatic savoir faire.
. .though he stays cleaner than any buck I have ever had--I don't
know how he does it. While he is no substitute for our favorite
but sadly infertile guy, Paco, he is both a Raising Arizona grandson,
and a Luck of the Draw son, which is very nice indeed--in fact,
he has four of the most illustrious names in the breed as his grandparents.
He has already proven that he can produce lovely
daughters, one of whom, Cloverdale's
IH Cafe Latte, owned by Diane Davis-George of Mini
Inspirations Farm, has already won an ADGA GCH and an AGS Best
Udder in show as a first freshener. And I know everyone always
says this, but--he really is much more level than he looks in this
photo! His kids here have universally had notable length of body,
neck and bone pattern, levelness of topline, tight shoulders and
elbows, and wide open escutcheons. We have retained his daughters
Merlin, Electra,
Sweetwater, and Celestial
as well as Best Junior Doe in Show winner Peregrine.
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Born
12/14/03; pictured 8/05. Giacomo represents a close linebreeding
on Twink's Pixie: he is by a grandson and out of a daughter. He
himself is lovely to look at and a joy to handle; he is the only
goat I have ever had who actually seems to enjoy being clipped
for shows, and happily struts his stuff once he gets in the ring.
His kids consistently inherit his long, uphill profile, beautiful
feet and legs, amazing width between the hocks, wide open escutcheons,
and nice hind end angulation--we have retained his daughters CH
Deirdre (1 x GCH Jr, 4 x RGCH Jr, 3 x GCH Sr), Intaglio,
Floria, Zezolla,
and a grandaughter, Merlin (1 x GCH Jr, 3 x BOB). His daughter
Fairlea
Tosca, out of MCH Fairlea Heidi *D, was also a junior champion
and has a leg in milk, and her littermate Fairlea
Hamlet *S classified E as a two year old. Giacomo won his
first MCH leg as a yearling over more than 30 other bucks, and
Best of Breed over a two-time Reserve National Champion. Thank
you, Kellye!
Giacomo
is a plus sire as of 2009--his daughters in our herd and elsewhere
are some of our best milkers.
Show
record: 12 x 1st place, 6 x Jr Ch Buck, 3 x GCH Buck, 3 x Best
of Breed, 6 x RGCH Buck
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(Left
photo by Declan Dean.) Rio is our oldest polled buck, and we are
very lucky to have him. His dam has a waiting list that she is
unlikely to ever completely fill, and his sire is the late, incomparable
Gem. He is a tiny fellow, but extremely well put together (check
out that escutcheon) with especially tight shoulders and elbows,
terrific skin and ribs, and strong feet with tight toes. It was
immediately evident that he would consistently improve feet and
legs, producing unusually short, strong, upright pasterns on long,
level elegant daughters. What we now know is that all of his daughters
to date have nearly identical beautifully shaped and attached
udders--in that respect, I would say he is our most consistent
buck.
We
have retained his daughters Harlequin,
Atalanta (Jr GCH at less
than 3 months), Danu, Gaia,
and Yuki, and we are also very impressed with Ocean
Spray Sea Breeze, bred by Lisa O'Connor and owned by Mandi
Babcock, and Fairlea
Christie (Rio x ARMCH Fairlea
Heidi *D E), bred and owned by Bonnie Chandler. I was so impressed
with Christie that I begged Bonnie to sell me her younger full
sister, coming soon.
Show
record: 1 x 1st place, 1 x GCH Buck, 1 x Sire and Son (with Fairlea
Fletcher Christian)
Reserve
All-American Buck, 2 years to under 3, 2006
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Dawnland Tabby's Halifax 'E' 90.0 |
| Sire
: Rosasharn Tom's Water Tabby *S (ARMCH Goodwood Tom Thumb+*S 'E'
x ARMCH Goodwood Water Lily 2*D) |
| Dam:
Stonewall's India Wilkes (Stonewall's
Raising Arizona ++S
x Stonewall's Dizzy Miss Lizzie) |
6/29/04 - 3/20/10
Halifax
scored an amazing 2.9 out of 3 in the Style/Upstandingness category
in his AGS Classification; one look at his photo and you can understand
why. He was a beautiful balance of elegance and power. To my knowledge
he never had a fresh daughter with anything but a lovely mammary
system, and most of his offspring have improved general appearance
and dairy character over their dams. Hal was a permanent champion
in both AGS and ADGA, having gone 3 times Best of Breed from
the AOP class over standard breed bucks, including a multiple
Best Buck in Show-winning Toggenburg. To date he has had 3 daughters
win Best Junior Doe in Show at large all breed shows.
Hal
was found dead in his pen on the morning of 3/20/10. Post mortem
examination showed that his heart failed quite suddenly, apparently
due to a cardiac toxicity. I am just devastated by his loss, and
can't bear to remove his picture from this page.
I am
mystified to learn that Halifax apparently measured overheight
at each of his LA sessions (two of which were before I owned him).
I can't figure that out, because he was shown as a mature buck
many times in AGS shows, (where each animal must WALK under the
wicket in order to enter the ring--no holding heads down or other
shenanigans) and never measured out. All of his wins in AGS have
associated official height measurements recorded, for a total
of 5 different measurements by 5 different judges, all within
the height limit. When he won his three legs in ADGA, in 2009,
two of the judges were willing to sign AGS win forms, thus I have
a record of their official measurements of his height (at 5 years
of age) as 23 3/8 inches (Lynn Fleming, 5/23/09) and 22 1/2 inches
(Lynn Benedict, 5/23/09) (notice the high variability of measurements on the same day). It is my position that, no matter what is
recorded in the ADGA Genetics database, Halifax was NOT an overheight
buck.
Show
record: In AGS: 1 x Jr CH Buck, 3 x RGCH Buck, 2 x GCH Buck (one
leg lost), 1 x Sire and Son (with sire Water Tabby); in ADGA,
3 x GCH buck, 3 x BOB (judges Pete Snyder, Lynn Fleming, and Lynn
Benedict, May, 2009)
Reserve
All-American Buck, 2 years to under 3, 2006 |
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(Photo
by D. Gotthardt.)The birth of this buck really was a miracle--his
14 year old sire was supposed to be sterile, and his elderly dam
had been retired from breeding. However, grandma and grampa had
other ideas. Both parents are a tribute to longevity in the breed.
I really like the elegance of this buck, though he does persist
in adopting the typical butt-tucked, stubborn buck position in
the show ring. One of Max's first daughters, Ocean
Spray Catch the Wave, earned her AR and milk star as a 2-year
old on her first freshening.
Show
Record : 1 x RGCH (ADGA, judge Pete Snyder, May 2009)
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This
beautiful buck is a gorgeous red, with a pedigree that anyone
would love. LT, full brother to our Appomattox, is tightly linebred
on Raising Arizona (his pedigree consists mainly of Arizona's
littermate sister and three of his sons), with all of his immediate
ancestors being outstanding individuals as well. LT's
littermate, Appomattox,
whom we also owned, recently passed away, but we have several
nice daughters from him. LT was the member of the litter
that Heather chose to retain, because of his stronger feet and
legs and more uphill profile with more levelness in the area of
the loin. LT is sweet and easy to handle. LT's
dam, Tiger's L'ily, is one of my favorite goats of all time.
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(Photo by Declan
Dean) This lovely polled is strong in several areas that our breed
really needs, particularly his wide, flat, level rump, tight shoulders
and elbows, nice rear angulation, great length of body, and general
openness. What's even more remarkable about him is his pedigree,
which largely consists of the great Flat Rocks Gem (75%)--pretty
near as close as we could get to having the grand old man standing
here himself. Tuan's dam, My Shadow (who is also the dam of our
Flat Rocks Penumbra) has the highest, most open escutcheon I have
ever personally seen on a goat.
Show
Record : 3 x GCH (May, 2010, Tom Considine, Ed Cavanaugh; May,
2011, Patricia Ricotta), 2 x RGCH
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Well,
I really did not need another buck, but I could not pass this
boy up. I have really wanted to bring in someone who embodies
the Stonewall's Midnight Cowboy/Goodwood Mindy cross, but I felt
that I was at my limit--so when my good friend Lorene Toth at
Sunnydale Farm asked
me where she should look for a great buck, I told her to buy what
I thought I had the willpower not to--something linebred on Stetson.
She contacted Sharon McCarty, and the result was twin bucklings--both
of whom ended up with Lorene. The fact that one of them is now
here is a gift beyond price. Rebel can trace his descent from
royal dam lines, being the son of a Reserve AGS National Champion
Stetson daughter (Suthrn, 2003; she was also 8 x BU and 8 x BOB)
and the grandson of a National Champion Stetson daughter(Bridget,
2004) Both Suthrn and Bridget have prodigious milk records as
well: in 2004 Suthrn milked 2.11 21 1/8 305 1057 67 6.3 45 4.3,
and Bridget milked 5.0 21 1/8 302 1049 73 7.0 43 4.6, for
an average of 3.5 lbs of milk per day over a 305 day lactation
for each. Those records earned them both spots on the AGS Top
Ten list for 305 day test that year--Suthrn in 5th place for milk,
6th for protein and 7th for butterfat, and Bridget in 6th place
for milk, and 4th for both protein and butterfat. And for icing
on the cake, yes, that is a big lovely moonspot in the middle
of his back. Thank you so much, Sharon McCarty, for breeding this
beautiful boy and his brother Southern Comfort, and words cannot
express my thanks to Lorene for offering me the "other brother"!!
Here
is a rear
view of Suthrn Bell from Caesar's Villa's winning breeders
trio entry at the 2004 AGS National Show.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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Panama
will be coming home later this fall as part of a package deal,
but I am very glad to be getting him back. He has a super pedigree
and I can't wait to see how he has grown out. His sister Chloris
is shaping up to be a beautiful doe and I expect to see the same
from Panama.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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(Bottom
photo by Declan Dean) When I decided to keep Dante here, I decided
in turn to sell this beautiful buckling, with the promise that
he would be sold back to me on request...I am deeply grateful
to Rebecca who graciously agreed to send him back home in the
wake of his sire's death. I have big, big plans for this guy this
season. To me he looks like he will be the spitting image of his
sire--even dirty, unclipped, and in rut he is lovely to look at.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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(Photo
courtesy of Kelly Bussey) I am very excited about our new herd
sire--he is very similar in breeding to our favorite Pacifica,
as well as some of the most successful herd sires in the breed
(see Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay, Rebel w/out a Cause, Fathom This,
and Brown Dirt Cowboy, among others, and for a real thrill, Google
their daughters...) They are all very very prepotent producers
of strong udder floors, high rear udders, and especially, that
near perfect teat placement that is still far too rare in the
breed--I am really looking forward to some beautiful udders .
Avatar has been bred to quite a few of my best does for 2011.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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DOB
3/1/10 |
extended
pedigree |
LA
not yet done |
Okay, this guy ought to be Halifax come again...but at least at first glance, he sure is not. In fact, he is a very unprepossessing little guy, though he is absolutely the most lovey boy in the buck pen. However, as they say, it's not how they look but what they do, so hopefully we will see what he can do this spring.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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(Photo courtesy of Addie and Joe Pepoli, Proctor Hill Farm) Solaris is co-owned with Proctor Hill Farm, and I feel very lucky to have him here. He represents the extreme in dairy character, with very lean thighs and an elegant profile. The udders behind him are very strong, and his pedigree includes one of my very favorite crosses in the Nigerian breed, Baywatch to Nonpareil. He will be bred to several of our nicest does this breeding season.
Show
Record : not yet shown |
DOB
5/29/10 |
extended
pedigree |
LA
2011 VVV; V |
I just
love this little guy, even though he doesn't like to help us photograph
him. More impressive in person than this picture shows...
Show
Record : 4 x 1st, 3 x Jr GCH, 1 x Jr RGCH
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DOB
6/3/10 |
extended
pedigree |
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Our most beautiful Hal son, I think.
Show
Record : 4 x 1st, 3 x Jr GCH, 1 x Jr RGCH |
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