Storm's Daughter's - Part 2

This could be titled - "The UDDER view" haha! Anyway. In dairy goats, it kind of becomes all about the udder at a certain point....with a buck - seems to be one thing we goat folks look at. What does the buck's dam and sister's udders look like? What about his daughters. And while this is only 3 daughter's of Storm, I can honestly say - what it looks like only tells half the story - you need to have more of a hands on approach!
NONE of Storm's daughters have the same udder (at least not the way it looks. None of them even have very big udders. But I can see that they could easily have them with subsequent freshenings. One thing I can say about their udders is that each one is an improvement somewhere from their dams udders. This and the top picture are CBF CS SG Ammi. Her udder is softer than her Granddam - Willow. She has the same small teats but as far as milking her goes she is waaaay easy. Her udder is so soft. I milked her dam for a very short time - Dixie and from what I recall - it is easier than hers as well. She has good MSL and Lateral attachments - I'd love to see bigger teats and better foreudder extension.

Hope is one of my favorites. She has the good Foreudder attachement, is snuggly attached and fills out that escutcheon very well. She also has a very soft udder and wonderfully plumb teats. But they stick out to the side some. I kind of hope that when that udder fills out next year that it will push the teats down a bit.
Stars. This udder doesn't look big and for her size - it really isn't but I can tell that there is a lot of capacity there - if she had triplets or more - watch out world. There is plenty of room for expansion - her teats are nearly ideal in placement, has good foreudder extension but could use some lateral. Her escutcheon is a bit on the narrow side but most certainly she is an improvement on her dam and granddam!Like all of Storm's kids so far that I've milked it is butter soft and milk just flows out of her.
I am so excited to see what next years' kiddings with these girls are like. I think it will be even more exciting than this years for me. Not to mention I will get to see an Intrigue daughter freshen as well. It is so much fun to see what your breeding program is doing.

Storm's Daughters

For two years I have been waiting for this year - I have 3 of Piddlin Acres H Calm the Storm's daughters in Milk here at CBF Nigerians. I really was hoping to have this last year but it just didn't happen! I freshened Stars (out of CFB Ent's Twinkle Lil' Star 2*D)

and Hope (out of Nizhoni's DW Tirzah) and just was blessed to get CBF CS SG Ammi (Out of CBF Ent's Whistlin' Dixie) back from the Ruiz's.
Ammi is the only 2nd FReshener but one thing I am really noticing about Storm's girls is that they are consistant. They aren't huge milkers (though I don't usually expect First Fresheners to be huge milkers) but they are very level so far and have very little fluctuation in their milk amounts from day to day.
and I really like what Storm as done in other areas as well. His daughters are typically long, have level toplines,have good strong legs and feet - very straight.They are also very dairy - having good bone structure and ribbing. I am excited to see how the girls do with another freshening and some maturity but so far - I'm not at all unhappy by what I'm seeing. Even though Storm has moved on to work in someone else's herd (Nizhoni's) I am sure glad he was here for two years and that his wonderful genetics have worked so well for my herd!

2011 Kids are Here!

CBF CS Paint Th'Sky With Stars kidded around 6 am on sunday February 20th 2011 with Beautiful buck/doe twins out of Ironwoodranch A Good Intrigue *S/*B

They are both very nice looking kids (yes, I am biased!) with what appears to be good conformation and dairy character. I was debating whether or not to keep a doeling from this kidding until I saw her and the answer is YES! I have to keep one of Intrigue's kids this year and I think this little darlin' is it.
Brother, The one in back with the big white splash is a buckskin blue eyes and lots of white is very nice. I cannot wait to see what Stars' udder/attachments and his conformation are like to be able to decide if this boy might be buck quality or not.
Doeling, whose name is CBF AGI Wish Upon A Star is a tiny little chocolate buckskin with white splashes on both sides mixed with spots.
Both kids remind me a lot of what Stars' sire Piddlin' Acres H Calm the Storm throws but they have their sire's head, and outstandingly sweet personalities and we hope much more!!!! Only time will tell. This is a great start to our kidding season here at CBF. We are looking forward to 3 more sets of kids in the next month so check back often.

We will also post updated pics of the kids as they grow and mature as well as dam's udders and updates regarding their milk tests as we will be starting our testing for 305 in ADGA/AGS next month. The First show of the year is March 26th and we will be showing: CBF CS Paint Th'Sky With Stars, CBF CS Hope Diamond, Nizhoni's DW Tirzah and Hippity Hooves GD Lucky Stars. Tirzah will be Classified by Tim Flickinger at the show as well as she is the only doe who qualifies for the classification. We will be trying to get shaved pics of all the does and their full udder shots at this show as well.

IF you would like to talk to us regarding one of our breedings, please feel free to contact me at NMgoatgal@gmail.com

2 Weeks and counting!

we are approximately 2 weeks away from the first babies of the year. Never before in my life have I been this excited about our babies. It's funny, I am always excited about our babies but it seems that these little ones really are special to me for MANY reasons. About 5 years ago, after doing a ton of research and knowing what bloodlines I wanted I bought Nizhoni's Joie de Vivre *M/*D. as a 2 month old kid. Joie really is our foundation doe.

I like her so much, I ended up with her 1/2 sister a few years back - Nizhoni's DW Tirzah who will be 3 this coming year. Joie had a rough birth her second year - 1 doe/2 bucks and the doe came breech - all I could see was a tail and butt! I pulled her and fell in love. That was CBF Ent's Twinkle Lil' Star - I kept the only two girls I got that year - Twinkle and her 1/2 sister Dixie. The following year my daughter was newly diagnosed with cancer and I was faced with some rough decisions. I knew I could not milk that many girls so I parted with Twinkle and Dixie even though I did not want to and kept one of TWinkle's twin does: CBF CS Paint Th'Sky with Stars. After we sold her, Twinkle went on to earn her milking star in AGS. Twinkle also milked over 18 months as a First Freshener. Last year, Stars did not end up getting bred and it has been a rough process. NOW she is finally bred, and with our newest buck's First kids of the year.
Ironwoodranch A Good Intrigue *S/*B came to us last year after a LOT more research and searching for just the buck! WE had settled on another pair from Texas but through some very disappointing circumstances (for the breeder and for me) that fell through. But we found Intrigue. Intrigue's dam Pecan is probably Ironwood's best all around doe. She does well in the showring, milks well and has scored well in her Linear Appraisals. As a result of the Ironwood ranch's hard work, Pecan was honored with the Superior Genetics title along with her herdmate Minnie. this is the first group of Nigerians to have earned the title through ADGA. We got Intrigue last year and I am sure glad I did - Pecan's kids this year have been sold since before she got bred. I would have had no chance!!!! I have high hopes for Intrigue and Stars' kids and for Intrigue and STars. WE are looking to earn milking stars though 305 day testing (hoping that Stars will be our first 3*D in AGS) I would really like a doe kid to continue the line. But if she doesn't have one for me we will re-breed her to Intrigue again.

I am also very excited to see Stars' udder as she is the first of my Storm kids to freshen here at CBF. Hope is the 2nd. Other of his kids have freshened, just not here for me. Sooooo, these kids kind of are our 3rd generation of homebred kids who can carry on the torch for CBF Nigerians.

It has been a long hard road for us over the past few years but God has blessed us abundantly through the trials as well.

Daredevil, Stars and other musings from the Hobby Farm

So over the last few weeks I've been trying to decide if my Stars was pregnant. The consensus is, that she is not - she's due June 22 and there is NO UDDER.

I wanted to go take her back to Jazzy Blues but my time right now is pretty limited. Then, I started getting pictures of the udders of Joie's 2009 set of babies. And the kids from Joie's buck kid CBF TD Daredevil) from last year - out of Tapdance who is now passed on.
My desire was to breed Tirzah to Tapdance this year but after finding out he had passed away......and after seeing Daredevil's kids.......and after discovering that Stars wasn't bred.....I took Stars to visit Daredevil. So NOW I hope I will be seeing some Stars/Daredevil kids in October.

This is a close linebreeding on Joie who was my Supermilker so I am really looking forward to these kids. A little side note here: Stars' dam, Twinkle Lil' Star has now been in milk over 400 days.....she was just bred so we will look forward to seeing her second freshening shortly before

Stars kids if she gets bred soon.

Winter at CBF

Occasionally, we are treated to the rare delight of SNOW here in the desert. This year we were all hoping for the proverbial White Christmas. It snowed before Christmas but was gone by Christmas. Yesterday, we actually saw white.
It was a pretty wet snow so we saw more puddles than the white stuff on the ground but we were willing to take what we could get! At one point the ground really was white. *you can barely see the white on the trampoline*
And yes, even a little white on the ground. Of course the goats think the evil white stuff would melt them! Other news of the day - Stars came home - we think bred to MCH Flying Goat Jazzy Blues *S/*B. I used to own this little guy and have come to kick myself a few times for passing him on due to his rather obnoxious habit of singing to the girls ALL NIGHT LONG (which is really obnoxious when you only have a 1/2 acre) But i have to give a GREAT BIG HUGE THANK YOU to Prairie Wood Ranch & Lora Kniffin for graciously giving me a free breeding for passing on this phenomenal buck to them! Jazzy Paternal Grand Dam is the awesome PrairieWood Player *D/*M who was Number one doe about two years ago on the Top 10 list for One Day milk tests. Jazzy and Stars share a Grand Sire: MCH Lost Valley Orion*B/*S so we are looking forward to some excellent milk/show babies sporting the beautiful black and white coat and blue eyes of their parents. Also: MORE new news regarding the new buck from Arizona - Ironwood Ranch said that it is highly probably that Ironwood SJ Pecan would be in the Top 10 for Milkers on 305 day test for 2009. KUDOS to Ironwood and Pecan for their achievements . I"m HONORED to be getting my new herdsire Ironwoodranch A Good Intrigue *S/*B from you all! Thank you!

*upcoming events to look forward to - Nizhoni's Joie de Vivre *M/*D is due to kid in about 2 weeks.

More Shaved doe pics.

Here is Chocolate Truffle - One of the twin girls out of CBF Ent's Twinkle Lil' Star and Piddlin Acres H. Calm the Storm - this doe is LOVELY. I am having second thoughts about selling her now that she's shaved. Her stance isn't as lovely as it could be since she didn't want to cooperate.

She is nice and wide, appears to have great body capacity and is usually easy to handle. Of course so is her sister who is already staying here at CBFNigerians.


This is CBF Paint th'Sky With Stars. She is Truffle's sister and is one of the most elegant does we've produced here.

She seems to have about every good trait her sister has as well as being a tad longer. I think Truffles may have a bit more body capacity though. I sure had a tough time deciding between the two - now my hubby is saying - "don't, just keep them both and then decide after they freshen" He's not helping me keep my numbers down here - GO ahead give me an excuse to keep more goats!!!

Okay - I couldn't help but get more pictures of this doe - She is just so pretty and well built!!! She makes me smile.