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Dragonfly Farm Senior
Does 2 |
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updated
8/27/08
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
DOB
12/19/03 |
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LA
2007 VEEV 88, 2008 VVEV 87 |
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, 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
All-American Milking doe 2 years to under 3 (tied with Skylark)
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DOB
1/3/04 |
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(Photo
by Laura Whitlock) |
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, 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,
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, click here to
go to her page. |
DOB
3/3/04 |
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(Photo
by Declan; shown dry) |
Salutations
was named by her breeder after the erudite spider's greeting in
"Charlotte's Web", so we call her Charlotte. This is
an old, old pedigree--you don't see these names in the generations
of 2 and 4 very often these days. Her sire (who is also her great
grandsire), Leprechaun, a son of Z Ali Babba, was still settling
does just before his death at 14 years young, a tribute to longevity
indeed. For
more photos and information, click here
to go to her page.
Show
record: 1 x 1st, 1 x GCHJr, 1 x BOB Jr (shown once)
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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, 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,
click here to go to
her page.
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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 on 12/3/07. For more photos and information, 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, 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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DOB
4/10/04 |
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(Photo
by Lorene Toth.) |
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 here. For more photos and information, 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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DOB
5/8/04 |
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(Photo
by Ryan Williams) |
I know
that William did not want to sell this doe, as she was one of
the last left before his final herd dispersal. I have just started
to get to know her, and she is very laid back, sensible, and unassuming.
It's kind of striking because she looks just like her half sister
Pretzel, but could not be more different in personality! For more
photos and information, click here
to go to her page.
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DOB
5/16/04 |
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(Photo
by Declan Dean) |
We
really need to get newer pictures of this pretty doe, but she
freshened in February this year and we just never got her clipped!
She is milking very well, and is the first doe in our herd to
have earned her star on 305-day test. For more photos and information,
click here to go to her 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,
click here to go to her page. |
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Littermate sister
to our beautiful First Flight, we were lucky to get Declare back
in June of 2007. Unfortunately she missed being bred that year,
but we are really looking forward to her second freshening this
summer. She looks a lot different than in her baby picture, above!
She is a chocolate repartida (buckskin with no face stripe) similar
to Chiaroscuro, and now could be easily be mistaken for solid chocolate.
Updated photo in spring. For more phtos and information, click
here to go to her page. |
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(Photo by Dennis
Whitlock.) Harley is a nice little polled doe of pure Flat Rocks
breeding, who is apparently the spitting image of her granddam,
Holy Terror. She is not supposed to even be here, because both of
her parents are polled--obviously a big oops on my part, but she
turns out to be perfectly normal. So we seem to have dodged a bullet,
and you will certainly not see a pedigree like this one every day.
I usually refer to Harley, who stands 17 1/2 " tall, as my
toy goat--she is really very correct, just very tiny. I love her
udder, though I have to admit it is not very gravitationally challenged.
Bred to Hunk, delivered buck/doe
twins 4/29/08. For more pictures and information, click
here to go to her page. |
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(Photo by Lorene
Toth.)Deirdre 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. Placed a respectable 3rd in her class at the 2007
AGS National Show. Bred to Halifax; delivered twin does on 5/16/08.
For more pictures and information, click here
to go to her page. |
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Birgitte has
a particularly level rump on the move--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. For more pictures and information, click here
to go to her page. |
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