Leading Ladies
These does have earned their "lead roles" in the herd by performing well on the milk stand, in the show ring, and/or via linear appraisal, either themselves or through their offspring.
These does have earned their "lead roles" in the herd by performing well on the milk stand, in the show ring, and/or via linear appraisal, either themselves or through their offspring.
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GCH Pholia Farm HB Flicker 3*M AR VEVE 90 FS
DOB: 4/11/11 Official Ht: 20.75" Sire: GCH Piddlin Acres Hit the Bullseye +B EEE 90 Twin Creeks BW Peaceful Voyage ++*S VG 87.5 Piddlin Acres Fraulin Dam: SG Pholia Farm DB Honeycomb 2*M Pholia Farm OD Da Bomb *B Pholia Farm HJ Razzle 1*M Linear Appraisal: 2013: +V+V 84 2014: EVEV 90 2016: VEVE 90 ~ final score Show Record: 2x 1st, 3x 2nd, 1tx 3rd, 1tx Best Udder in Breed, 2013 Best Udder in Class, Yearling Milkers, NWODGA, 2012 Reserve Grand Champion, Mason Community Fair, 2012 3X Grand Champion all 3 rings! SWWDGA 2014 |
Flicker is my little white shadow - she follows me everywhere, even sneaking out of her pen to "help" me with chores. She's a visitor favorite, endearing herself immediately to everyone she meets - more than once someone has threatened to sneak her home in the trunk. While she has personality in spades, she's also well put-together and has some great milking bloodlines to boot. She's wonderfully angular, feminine and dairy, looking much like a tiny Saanen - and this little doe wants to milk like one, too. As a 3rd freshener, she produced 4-5 5lbs a day when milked twice a day. Milking once a day halfway through her lactation, she milked a steady quart daily as a 5th freshener.
Flicker has a fantastic udder. Very broad overall area of attachment, excellent fore and medial, great side and very good rear attachment, nice teats and placement, milks out well. She often won best udder in class even if she wasn't in first place, and won Best Udder in Breed over 37 entries as a 2 year old. As a 3yr old she blossomed - and in a big way! Her first show that year with over 40 milking does entered, she easily won Grand Champion in all 3 rings. Later that summer she appraised Excellent on linear appraisal, as well as her final score at five.
Her sire has both his permanent champion title and Superior Genetics designation. He has produced two permanent champion does to date, one of which (Pholia Farm HB Angelica) has already earned a Superior Genetics designation. Her dam, Pholia Farm DB Honeycomb, has a wonderfully attached and productive udder, and did well on the milking string for Pholia Farm, a Grade A creamery. Honeycomb has her milking star and Superior Genetics as well.
Flicker has a fantastic udder. Very broad overall area of attachment, excellent fore and medial, great side and very good rear attachment, nice teats and placement, milks out well. She often won best udder in class even if she wasn't in first place, and won Best Udder in Breed over 37 entries as a 2 year old. As a 3yr old she blossomed - and in a big way! Her first show that year with over 40 milking does entered, she easily won Grand Champion in all 3 rings. Later that summer she appraised Excellent on linear appraisal, as well as her final score at five.
Her sire has both his permanent champion title and Superior Genetics designation. He has produced two permanent champion does to date, one of which (Pholia Farm HB Angelica) has already earned a Superior Genetics designation. Her dam, Pholia Farm DB Honeycomb, has a wonderfully attached and productive udder, and did well on the milking string for Pholia Farm, a Grade A creamery. Honeycomb has her milking star and Superior Genetics as well.
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GCH Sans Gene K Zydeco 3*M EEEV 90 Sire: Poppy Patch HB Evel Knievel +B VEE 90 CH Honey Goat Domingo Algedi Farm MB Honeymoon Bay ++*B Dam: Caprinos TMM Lucienne EEEV 90 Caprinos RI Night Jasmine 1*M EEEE 91 Sugar Creek MI Tell Me More +B VEE 89 Show Record: 2013: 1 tx 1st place, 2 tx 2nd place 2014: 2tx 2nd, 3tx 1st, 1tx Reserve Grand Champion 2015: 4tx 1st, 1tx 2nd 2tx Grand Champion SWWDGA 1tx Grand Champion, Best Udder in Breed, Best of Breed, NWODGA DHIR/Milk Records: Yes |
Zydeco turned out to be a truly lovely girl. She has her mother's refinement, clean long bone pattern, strong feet and legs, and long stretchy neck. From her sire, K, she was gifted with greater width and spring of rib, and a bit more levelness hip to pins. Like both sire and dam, she has great depth and length of body and a nice, strong brisket. My favorite thing about Zydeco though, is her sweet, loving, and slightly-mischievous personality.
Zydeco's udder is high and snug with plumb teats, great height and width of rear attachment, and a smoothly blended foreudder. She has fantastic orifices - milk just streams out, and can milk 5+ lb a day, and typically milking around 4+lbs during peak lactation and levels off to around a quart a day later .
Zydeco has been a formidable competitor in the show ring. She won her first 2 legs over 50 senior does - a couple of which stood in the top 10 at nationals later that year. She finished at the next show in the first ring. In the next ring we showed her milked out since she was now finished - and she took first place and best udder in her class of over 15+ does, under judge Jennifer Bice.
Zydeco's udder is high and snug with plumb teats, great height and width of rear attachment, and a smoothly blended foreudder. She has fantastic orifices - milk just streams out, and can milk 5+ lb a day, and typically milking around 4+lbs during peak lactation and levels off to around a quart a day later .
Zydeco has been a formidable competitor in the show ring. She won her first 2 legs over 50 senior does - a couple of which stood in the top 10 at nationals later that year. She finished at the next show in the first ring. In the next ring we showed her milked out since she was now finished - and she took first place and best udder in her class of over 15+ does, under judge Jennifer Bice.
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Sans Gene GT Hermione 2*M EEEV 90 FS
DOB: 6/2/2011 Official Ht: 21" a Sire: Caprinos TMM Renegade +B VEE 89 Sugar Creek MI Tell Me More +B VEE 89 Poppy Patch FM Calamity Jane 1*M VEEV 90 Dam: Caprinos RI Night Jasmine 1*M AR EEEE 91 Pholia Farm KM Riot *+B V+E 87 Goodnight Tahoma Violet +VE+ 84 Show Record: 2016: 1tx RGCH, the only show we went to this year 2013: 1x 1st, 2x 3rd, 2 year old milkers 2012: Junior Champion, Mason Area Fair 7/24/2012 3rd out of 23 and 4th out 24, NWODGA show, 6/2/2012 (though not wins, placings to be proud of!) 2011: Reserve Jr. Champion, RVDGA show, 2011 (AOP; non-sanctioned) Milking Records/DHIR Test: yes |
Hermione, always a beautiful kid, grew up to be a gorgeous doe. She has all of her mother's good traits; great depth and width of body, lovely general appearance, straight legs, good feet. Her sire also gifted her with improvement in length and sharpness over the withers, buttery-soft udder texture and longer teats. Hermione hasTHE kind of rump we are looking for: wide and level from hips to pins and thurl to thurl. Her final score on linear appraisal was EEEV 90 - "Excellent", with an Excellent for rump structure! Better yet, she passes on that lovely rump onto her kids. Hermione is a strong milker, who seems to just get better each year.
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Caprinos TMM Lucienne 2*M AR VVE+ 2016; EEEV 90 2014
DOB: 10/4/10 Official Ht: 21" Sugar Creek MI Tell Me More ++*B VG 89 / *S Ex 90 MCH ++B Gay-Mor Domino's Mantis +S Ex90 MCH Twin Creeks WE Talk About Me 1*M, EEEE91 Caprinos RI Night Jasmine 1*M AR EEEE 91 Pholia Farm KM Riot *+B Goodnight Tahoma Violet +VE+ LA scores: 2013: VEVV 86 2014: EEEV 90 2016: VVE+ 85 (not quite herself, not much milk) Show Record: 1x 1st, 2013 Reserve Junior Champion, RVDGA show 2011 (AOP, non-sanctioned) |
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Sans Gene DE Delta Blues 4*M VVEE 89
aka "Zipper" (out on lease 2017-18) Sire: Sans Gene GT Doppler Effect *B VEE 88 Caprinos TMM Renegade +B VEE 89 GCH Caprinos RI Night Jasmine 1*M EEEE 91 Dam: GCH Sans Gene K Zydeco 3*M EEEV 90 Poppy Patch HB Evel Knievel +B VEE 90 Caprinos TMM Lucienne 2*M VVE+ |
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Sans Gene GT Serenity +VEV 86 FS
Sire: Caprinos TMM Renegade +B VEE 89 Sugar Creek MT Tell Me More +*B V89 Poppy Patch Calamity Jane E90 Dam: GCH Caprinos RI Night Jasmine 1*M EEEE 90 Pholia Farm KM Riot +B Goodnight Tahoma Violet +VE+ 84 |
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Sans Gene Princess Buttercup 5*M 83 (+V++)2yr 4mo
Sire: Caprinos TMM Renegade +B VEE 89 Sugar Creek MT Tell Me More ++*B V89 Poppy Patch FM Calamity Jane EEEV 90 Dam: Sans Gene K Firefly 4*M VVVE 88 Poppy Patch HB Evel Knievel +B VEE 90 GCH Pholia Farm HB Flicker 3*M VEVE 90 Princess pictured at right with 12 hours of milk, shortly before she rejoined our herd. I am beyond pleased to have the opportunity to bring this powerhouse milker doe back home. She peaked just shy of 6lbs on her last lactation. Princess is an eye catching doe, with her regal bearing and bright calico coat. She has nice depth at the elbow and point of rib, but she isn't quite wide enough for her very capacious mammary. So although her attachments are actually quite good, there isn't quite enough room for it under her, so it gets pushed forward on her body. Fortunately, she is able to walk around it reasonable well, and we are careful during peak lactation to not let her get too full. Our herd runs to wide and strong, so we are confident her offspring will have that extra bit of width needed for royal-sized mammaries. |
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Sans Gene K Firefly 4*M VVVE 88
Sire: Poppy Patch HB Evel Knievel +B VEE 90 CH Honey Goat Domingo Algedi Farm MB Honeymoon Bay ++*B Dam: GCH Pholia Farm HB Flicker 3*M VVEE 90 GCH Piddlin Acres Hit the Bullseye EEE 90 SG Pholia Farm DB Honeycomb 2*M V+E+ 86 Show Record: 2013: Junior Reserve Grand Champion Clark County Fair 3rd, NWODGA dry yearlings 2014: 2 tx 2nd Firefly, or Fly as we call her, is a tiny, fiesty, little lovebug. Nothing about her personality is pint-sized though - she makes sure you WILL notice her, in the most charming way imaginable. Her udder is snugly attached with an incredible foreudder, and tremendous capacity. Fly milked so hard on her 2nd freshening it was challenging to keep her weight up - Fly doesn't do anything halfway! Her last lactation, after serious surgery (noted below), Fly milked 4+ pounds a day ...and continued to hold at 3+ lbs... milked once a day. We nearly lost Fly in a horrific kidding in 2016. Fly pulled through, but we lost the kids and any hope of ever breeding Fly again. She is perhaps my best milker, and I am grateful to have her son and her two daughters in the herd. A much beloved member of the family, she will remain here, as Chief Officer Supervising All Farm Activities Which Might Involve Food. |