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Dragonfly Farm Senior
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updated
6/10/09
Our herd
is free of CAE, Johnes, CL, TB, and brucellosis. |
Click on the goat's name to go to
her page; click on the thumbnail photo to see a larger version
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DOB
12/19/03 |
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LA 2007
VEEV 88
2008
VVEV 87
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The longer
I have this doe here, the more I love her. She is very sensitive,
and has to try harder than those with calm personalities to be
a good goat, but she really does try. She was sold to me
because she was such a beast in the show ring at her first show
that her breeder put her on the sale page in disgust--but she
apparently had no intention of being shown the door again, because
she always behaved perfectly for us, though it took some convincing
to get her to walk with her head up. It helps that she is very
fond of horse cookies. She has been everything we have asked her
to be--great mom, beautiful show doe, happy milker. Thanks are
due to my good friend Sunni for not only letting me have this
paragon, but for not being mad that she has turned around so well!
For more photos and information, including udder shots, click
here to go to her page.
Show
record: 10
x 1st, 4 x GCH Sr., 4 x RGCH Sr., 4 x BOB, 5 x Best Udder
ANDDA Reserve All-American Milking doe 2 years to under 3 (tied
with Skylark, behind Pacifica)
ANDDA All-American
Milking doe 3 years to under 4
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DOB
1/3/04 |
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(Photo
by Kieran Dean) |
Like Party,
Chiara has a little trouble reconciling herself to being a dairy
goat, but we think she is more than worth the trouble. Her second
freshening udder is 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 she demonstrates
it to me every day at milking time. As always, thanks Kellye,
for breeding such beauties and for sending them my way! For
more photos and information, including udder shots,
click here to go to her page.
Show
record: 4 x 1st (out of 5 times shown); 1 x GCHJr, 2 x BOB Jr
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I have always
particularly liked this doe's dam, Treasure
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another udder shot) who was RGCH on 5 occasions, and twice
GCH. Sadly Treasure was lost to cancer recently. Andi is an absolute
love, and a beauty as well. With that mark on her muzzle, she looks
like she belongs in a "Got milk?" ad. That's appropriate,
as she is a pleasure to milk with terrific teats.Thanks again, Kellye!
For more pictures and information,
including udder shots,
click here to go to her page.
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DOB
3/13/04 |
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LA
2007 VEEV 88, 2008 VVEV 89
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A few years back, when I asked
Sunni to choose for me the doe kid she would keep if she had room
for just one more, Penumbra was the one. She epitomizes the best
of Flat Rocks; our 2007 linear appraiser, Elizabeth Henning, agreed
that she is one of our most promising young does. In addition, she
has a personality almost too big for her body, and a level of creativity
that rivals that of the Meg/Calliope line. She believes we should
all live in interesting times, and works to make it so.
For more photos and information, including udder shots,
click here to go to her page.
Show record: 1 x 1st,
1 x GCHJr, 1 x BOB Jr Doe
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3/16/04
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(Photo
by Declan) |
This doe is
very quiet and unassuming, until it comes time to make her way
to the milk stand--then watch out; she is unstoppable. Obviously
a dairy goat in her soul! For more photos and information,
including udder shots, click here
to go to her page.
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(Thanks,
Michael Covey, for helping me get this picture!) For her cheerful
and sunny personality, this doe is one of my favorites. She is so
much fun to interact with and to milk that she ended up not getting
bred for the show season in 2007, because her heats are very subtle
unless she is penned near the bucks. The winter days just kept going
by and I didn't want to stop milking her and move her to where she
would show that she was in season--before I knew it, it was
spring and she had stopped cycling. Fortunately Rio caught her on
one of his clean-up visits this summer, and she kidded with beautiful
buck doe twins in December. I just can't seem to avoid this situation
with this doe; she will be dry in 2009. For more
photos and information, including udder shots, click here
to go to her page.
Show
record: 2 x 1st
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DOB
4/6/04 |
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LA
2007 VEVV 88, 2008 V+EV 87 |
(Photo
by Dennis Whitlock.) |
Typical electric personality
from the Meg line.This doe in my favorite bright chamoisee is easily
the loudest forlorn maiden during her heat cycle that I have ever
heard...and like her mother before her, nothing can stop her from
making her way to the buck pen, either. Well, she knows where it
is, and never wanders anywhere else, so we let her have her way,
but it can be hard to wait until November to get her bred!
For more photos and information, including udder shots, click here
to go to her page.
Show record: 8 x 1st,
1 x GCH Sr. doe, 2 x RGCH Sr. doe (received a leg for one)
2006 ANDDA All-American
Milking doe 2 years to under 3 (tied with Party)
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(Thanks, Michael, for
this one too!) When
asked recently which living goat I would take home if I could have
absolutely anyone, I chose Pacifica's dam, Nonpareil. I am so happy
to have her lookalike daughter, Sweetwater,
back. For more photos and information, including
udder shots, click here
to go to her page.
Show record: 2 x 1st,
1 x RGCH
2006 ANDDA All-American
Milking doe 2 years to under 3
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Snowflake
came here along with most of her herdmates when Heather decided
to cut her herd waaay back in 2008. I feel very very fortunate to
be the first one to whom she offered these outstanding goats, and
I can't wait to see them freshen here. Thank you so much, Heather!
Show record:
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DOB
5/16/04 |
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(Photo
by Declan Dean) |
We really need
to get body shots of this pretty doe in milk, but she freshens
early each year and we just never seem to get her clipped! She
milks very well, and was the first doe in our herd to have earned
her star on 305-day test. For more photos and information,
including udder shots, click here
to go to her page.
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I absolutely
love this doe, and I feel so lucky to have her here. Sunni, Ella's
breeder, has retained her full sister Ever After, and considers
her one of her best--and we can see why. Ella's dam is closely
linebred on Surprise: she is both a Surprise daughter and granddaughter.
Ella represents a cross of the Surprise line with a Kingwood descendant,
which has proven very successful in the past. She is very elegant
and level on the move, with great legs and feet and a sweet, cheerful
disposition to boot. Ella's udder is a carbon copy of her beautiful
sister's; for more photos and information, click here
to go to Ella's page.
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She was aptly
named when she arrived, but has become more friendly. The Wild one's
littermate brother, Firecracker, is an absolutely stunning herd
sire at Agape Oaks.
Wild freshened with a single
buckling under mysterious circumstances; she claims immaculate
conception, but we have heard that one before. First freshening
udder shown below. Wild is still very petite, about 19 inches tall,
but was milking about 3 pounds per day. For more pictures
and information,
including udder shots,
click here to go to her page. |
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Dam: Chisholm Trail Mystique (Chisholm Trail Tacoma x Chisholm Trail
Elantra) |
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Tiger came here
from the October Hill herd, along with her gorgeous daughter by
Rosasharn's TL Cauldron *S, Kali. Thank you so much, Peggy, for
thinking of us! |
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Scarlet came here along
with most of her herdmates when Heather decided to cut her herd
waaay back in 2008. I feel very very fortunate to be the first one
to whom she offered these outstanding goats, and I can't wait to
see them freshen here. Thank you so much, Heather.
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Another of the lovely
Doe-Sy-Does, as we have taken to calling them.Thank you so much,
Heather! Bunny 's udder is gorgeous, much like that of her beautiful
late granddam, Suncatcher.
She is milking very
well for such a small doe. For more pictures and information,
including udder shots,
click here to go to her
page.
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Dierdre is pure
Twin Creeks breeding, closely linebred on Twink's Pixie and Weisbaden,
and is an improvement over her dam, Summer
Blonde, in the area of feet and legs, teats, and medial
suspensory ligament, while retaining Summer's nice qualities
in other areas, including her sweet and quiet personality--all of
which reflects well on her sire, Giacomo. A powerful little doe,
she still receives lots of positive comments from judges on her
sharpness and dairy character, which are more evident to the hands
than to the eye. Dierdre would be 2/3 of the way to her ADGA CH
if she had been registered with them as a junior doe. For
more pictures and information,
including udder shots,
click here to go to her page. |
Our
February surprise! I really liked this doe as a kid, and so did
the judges, but for the longest time the they always liked one
other kid just a little more. That's okay with us. She looks just
as nice standing in the pasture as walking in the show ring. She
has a naturally level topline and beautiful neck blending into
her shoulders. Leprechaun's get are known for their slow developement,
and as Ceili is Leprechaun in spades, we think she is right on
track. Ceili kidded for the first time with triplet does and a
beautiful udder; couldn't really ask for more than that. For
more pictures and information, click here
to go to her page.
Show
record: 3 x 1st, 6 x 2nd, 1 x GCH JrDoe, 1 x RGCH Jr Doe (ADGA)
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Dam: Flat Rocks Sea Siren (Twin Creeks BW Riptide x Flat Rocks Charismatic) |
This
doe is put together so well, I just love her. Answers to JoJo
(loudly). For more photos and information, click here
to go to her page.
Show
record: 1 x 1st
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(Photo by Declan Dean)
Birgitte has a particularly level topline, a quality we have been
seeking. Along with a sweet temperment and a lot of substance, she
has one of our favorite pedigrees of the kids from 2006, including
AGS National Champions Waterlilly and Eclipse, and ANDDA Specialty
BOB winner and close Eclipse relative Heidi, as well as our favorite
old man Paco in multiple places. Freshened for the second time with
a lovely udder; this photo taken almost dry.
For more pictures and information,
including udder shots,
click here to go to her page.
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(Photo
by Declan.)
Danu is still a farm favorite. For more photos and information,
click here to go to her page.
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(Photos
by Lorene Toth) Pandora, like all of our Calliope daughters, is
very personable, and has that patented sparkle. She's my first
goat to learn how to shake hands on command. For more pictures
and information, click here
to go to her page. Sale pending.
Show
record: 1 x 1st
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