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Goats
For our latest announcements and pictures of kids
go to our
Info
page.
For animals for sale visit our Sales
page.
We have not been able to do much showing in 2008.
As most of you probably already know, getting "off the farm"
when you have livestock, especially dairy animals, is very difficult
and the combination of finding someone to cover chores/milking,
the distance to shows and climbing gasoline prices are
limiting factors in the number of shows we are able to attend
but it is fun to get to see how our animals do in the show ring
and to see our goat show acquaintances again too.
Show updates have been included on the individual doe pages.
2008 was our fourth year
that we were able to participate in in DHIA test however we had to drop
our testing mid-way though the year due to family circumstances that
reqiured us to be away from the farm and to have
our does on a once a day milking schedule.
We
once again were able to participate in Linear Appraisal in 2008.
Our appraisal was in late summer this year and were very pleased
with how our animals did. You can see the LA scores for individaul
aniamls on our
doe and buck pages. We feel that Linear Appraisal is a wonderful tool
to
see our herd's strengths and weaknesses and we feel that the best way
to see the overall picture of our herd is to post all our scores, the
good and not as good. We also feel that seeing the overall
picture of our herd and animals will help visitors to our web site get
a
better feel for how our lines mature also.
Nigerian
Dwarf
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Updated 8/10/2008
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