Shay and her herdmate were transported for me from the 2004 ADGA Nationals by an Oberhasli breeder. Apparently, the two kids ran around this nice lady's kitchen and were a great hit, prompting her to joke that she would have to get herself a couple of "mini-Obers" as well! Shay's grandsire, Creek Road Hudson, is a buck I have long admired who has produced multiple Best Udder winners in the Buttin'Heads herd, including Shay's dam. Shay's sire is a gorgeous buck whose dam, Pageantry, has a lovely mammary system.

In addition to her winning bottle baby personality, Shay probably has the smoothest, tightest front end assembly in the herd. Her udder is her strongest feature, however; in 2007, as a 3 year old second freshener, Shay scored a 93% in mammary in her AGS Classification, despite a slight asymmetry probably caused by subclinical mastitis during her first freshening. She also holds the record for the shortest stay on my For Sale Page--about 15 minutes...(what was I thinking??!) In 2009 at her first LA session, she received an E in mammary which I believe is well deserved.

Shay was the almost-bridesmaid at several shows in 2008, so that her record really does not reflect how well she did; she would have several 2nd-best-udder in show and reserve-RGCHs to her credit, if such things existed. However, I believe that she has improved with each freshening so far, and that her day will come. I plan to keep several more doe kids, if she is kind enough to produce them for me.

She received a very mysterious + in mammary for her freshening in 2012, but fortunately her much more sensible E in mammary from 2009 is a permanent score...if anything, her udder is better than ever this freshening, but she was only 3 weeks fresh on LA day, and was criticized for "too much" mammary behind the leg...at least partly a function of some residual edema from her recent kidding, I believe. I wish I had more does with "too much" mammary behind the leg. She did receive one of the highest scores in the herd for her shoulder assembly, a bugaboo of this year's appraiser which resulted in most of my does that had previously received V's in this category suddenly developing A rated front ends. Well, I guess you have to take context into account in these things. I certainly would agree that Shaise does have a beautiful front end, even for my herd, which has up until this point been consistently praised for strength in this area. And even with her demotion to a + mammary, she still earned an 88.

Show record: 2 x 1st, 1 x RGCH (October, 2012, Topsfield Fair, Bob Bartholomew, Jr.)

Kidding record: 2006, triplets, two bucks and a doe by Turner Ashby; 2007, triplets, two bucks and a doe by Hunk; 2008, twin does by Giacomo (see Floria Tosca); 2009, twin bucks by Lancelot, 2012, triplet bucks by Ranger

September, 2012

August, 2012

June, 2008

July, 2008

June, 2008 (Photos by Lorene Toth)

September, 2006 (photo by Declan Dean)