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Stonewall's
Apocalypse Now +*S |
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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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Piddlin
Acres SC Maestro 'E' 90.0 |
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Thank
you Cheryle Moore-Smith for this picture of Maestro; you have no
idea how patient she had to be to get this! I think he is a good
looking guy, but he is typically not very interested in displaying
that for either judges OR photographers.
Maestro arrived
in November, 2002 from Texas; it promptly snowed 8 inches. He was
shocked. He recovered enough to produce nine sets of beautiful kids
last spring. He now has three daughters with their Junior GCH legs,
two more with RGCH Jr, and multiple daughters, including Dragonfly
M Skylark E (90.4), that have GCH legs in milk. He has been
very consistent in producing very long bodies, improved toplines,
strong briskets, and outstanding feet and legs. His daughter out
of Far N Best Suzuki *D VG, Piddlin
Acres Shanghai Noon, won RGCH Jr. doe at the 2003 AGS National
pre-show, and needs only one more leg to finish her MCH. Maestro
has improved foreudder extension and height and width of rear udder
in his first daughters to freshen here.
extended
pedigree
Show record: 6 x 1st, 5
x RGCh Buck
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PromisedLand
Incredible Hunk *S |
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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! Hunk is oversized (24") but he did receive an excellent
score in an unofficial classification session. 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, Celestial,
and Echo.
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MCH
Twin Creeks BW Giacomo Puccini *S 'E' 90.4 |
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12/14/03 |
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23
1/4" at 2 years |
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 Deirdre
(1 x GCH Jr, 4 x RGCH Jr), and Intaglio,
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 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!
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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Flat
Rocks Diamond Rio 'E' 90.2 |
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| Dam:
Flat Rocks Holy Terror (Flat Rocks Ziggy x Willow Creek Holy Smoke) |
| DOB
3/19/04 |
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21"
at 2 years |
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)--just
what we need. He has already proven to greatly improve feet and
legs and his kids are gorgeous, very level and wide in the rear;
check out his daughters Harlequin,
Atalanta (Jr GCH at less
than 3 months), Danu, and
Gaia, as well as Ocean
Spray Sea Breeze, bred by Lisa O'Connor.
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 |
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: Rosasharn Tom's Water Tabby *S (ARMCH Goodwood Tom Thumb+*S'E'
x ARMCH Goodwood Water Lily 2*D) |
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| DOB
6/29/04 |
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21
1/8 at 3 years |
LA
2007 VEE 88 |
Thank you,
Cheryle, for the opportunity to own this stunning boy. 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 will have a very full dance card this season. Watch for
lots of kids this spring.
Show
record: 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)
Reserve
All-American Buck, 2 years to under 3, 2006
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(Photo
by Bonnie Chandler.)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--and his sweet face, but
he was very grumpy in this photo, so he does not show that off
at all!
Show
Record :
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Flat
Rocks Pirate Treasure |
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Chocolate buckskin, lots
of white. Photo soon! |
Well,
we love Rio so much that when the opportunity came to buy a second
polled Gem son, I could not say no. It was even harder to resist
given that the gorgeous dam of this buck is littermate sister
of Buried Treasure, the sire of our beautiful Here For The Party.
Pirate's breeder, Sunni, has this to say about him: "This
boy is a really stunning buck. He's very correct, has perfect
feet and legs, lots of dairy character. He also represents an
extrememly successful cross for us, that of two of our Surprise
sons, Flash and Gem. This cross has consistantly produced our
top udders. I really can't say enough about this buck. He really
has it all, genetics, structure, and personality." This guy
may even tempt us to start showing bucks again.
Show
Record :
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Dragonfly
TA Lancelot du Lac |
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(Photo
by Declan, 9/07) Well, we made the horrible mistake of never keeping
a son of Apocalypse Now, and we do not intend to repeat that error.
This son of Turner Ashby has a lot of presence and is a love besides.
Although he is an outcross, we hope it is a synergistic combination,
and we will be crossing him back to both our Flat Rocks and Raising
Arizona bred girls as soon as he is up to it. We have retained
a beautiful daughter out
of our lovely Pacifica. As a yearling, he already shows a very
strong resemblance to his sire,
who held up well into his later years, classifying E and receiving
a GCH leg at the age of 8.
Show
Record : 5 x 1st, 1 x RGCH Jr Buck
Reserve
All-American Junior Buck, 2006
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Doe-Sy-Doe's
TA Appomattox |
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I am
so thrilled to have this beautiful buck here--many thanks to Heather
Marciello for parting with him! He is a gorgeous deep red, with
a pedigree that anyone would love. What a great new arrival for
Christmas. He is tightly linebred on Raising Arizona (his pedigree
consists mainly of three different sons of Arizona and his sister),
with all of his immediate ancestors being outstanding individuals
as well--I just could not ask for more.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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(Photo
courtesy of Karen Elliot) Loki is our back-up Turner Ashby son--he
has a lot of presence, almost pure old Stonewall breeding, and
as his co-owner says, a very swishy striped beard! His dam earned
her E classification score and her first GCh Senior doe award
as a 2 year old 2nd freshener, and several more awards as a 3rd
freshener. His littermate sister won GCH and RGCH junior doe as
a yearling. Loki is co-owned and currently residing with my good
friend Karen Elliot at Black
Duck Farm, and should have quite a few rugrats running around
by spring of 2008.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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Caesar's
Villa BB Rebel Yell *S |
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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"!!
Show
Record : not yet shown
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(Photo
courtesy of Rosasharn Farm) I have been wanting to bring some
of Paco through his son Tiger L, back into the herd, and so in
the fall of 2007 I bred Calliope to the lovely Rosasharn TL U'gene.
I was so impresed with the kids from that breeding that I could
not resist when Anne offered me this full brother. Not flashy,
but beautiful to me all the same. Thanks to Anne and Margiana
for this opportunity!! His dam, ARMCH R. Uni 3*D E (LA 90 EEEV)
held the number one spot on the AGS Top Ten list for Nigerian
milk production from 2003-2006, and still holds the record for
the highest lifetime production. His female full siblings (Unagi,
Ulani, and Utopia (at Rosasharn Farm)), and Ukelele (at Little
Tot's Estate) are beautiful and accomplished in the show ring
and the milk parlor. He has almost more credentials than I can
list. Can't wait to meet him.
Show
Record : not yet shown
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