NEWS NEWS NEWS!!!
We are quite proud one of our junior does that we sold to the Fair Skies Herd this summer, Silveraurora TH Xbean, not only took the Nigerian Dwarf Grand Champion Junior Doe over 20 other does but went on to take Best Junior Doe in Show at the Alaska State Fair under Judge Daniel Consadine! Way to go Heather and Beanie! Beanie is a Vanilla daughter, found on our Senior doe page below. And in the other show ring, Silveraurora SB Xtinker won ND Grand Champion Junior Doe under Judge Rusty Repp!
Those are just a few of our herd wins this year as a number of Grand and Reserve wins went to others who own and care so well for our goats. Thank you to all of you who have done so well!
AS ALWAYS, WHOLE HERD TESTED FOR CAE AND JOHNE'S APRIL 2008 AND WHOLE HERD NEGATIVE. Never any CL detected in our goats nor on our property.
We've had a wonderful 2008 show season with many 1st's and a number of champion awards to goats we either own or have bred. Thank you to all of our goat owners out there, we really do appreciate you!
Silveraurora is proud to announce the following awards we received for our 2005, 2006, and 2007 Top Ten One Day Test milk production!! WOW!
QSF DTI Patience*D*M AR(both registries)
2005 AND 2006 #2 High Score
2005 #2 High Milk - 6.6 pounds!!
2006 - BREED LEADER tied for 1st - 6.8 pounds!
ARMCH Twin Creek's PM Scarlet*D*M AR(both registries)
2005 #6 High Score
2006 #6 High Milk
2005 #7 High Milk
2005 #8 High Butterfat
QSF DTI Faith*D*M AR (both registries)
2005 #9 High Score
2006 #6 tie High Milk
2005 #10 High Milk
2005 #11 (4 way tie) High Protein
Rosasharn's UMT Bella Roo 3*D AR
2006 #3 High Score
2006 #3 High Milk - 6.1 pounds!!
Gay-Mor Mick's Poison Locket*D*M AR (both registries)
2005 #7 High Butterfat
2006 #10 High Score
2006 #9 High Protein
Herzinger's Bella Luna *D (AR pending both registries)
2005 #4 High Butterfat
2007 #5 High Score
We also went home with the Lowest Somatic Cell Count on 305 day test in 2005 with a 1.0 Linear Format, the honor going to
ARMCH Twin Creek's PM Scarlet*D*M AR (AGS & ADGA).
WAHOO! The girls did GOOD!!
Our does have been selected for milk production genetics as well as show conformation. They are all dual registered with both AGS and ADGA. We practice 'biosecurity' with our herd and test for CAE, Johne's, TB, Brucellosis, and Blue Tongue with all tests being negative every year. We choose bucks who posses and throw the structure and mammary systems that we wish to achieve for success both in the show ring as well as the milk pail. We appreciate greatly the help that our mentors provide, and do hope that it shows in the Nigerians we have purchased as well as the kids we produce. We are on DHIA milk test with both AGS and ADGA as our girls freshen and strive to put dairy stars and their AR's on them as soon as possible. Sorry, the photos aren't all as new as they should be, but check back often for new pictures, especially in the spring when we are able to clip again!
Our milk records for the last 2 years reflect that, at least for part of the year, we have only milked once a day due to farm expansions on our 120 acre farm. Ask us about our consistent milk producers - many of our once a day milkers easily milk 10 months or more. Not everyone wants to produce kids every year but they do want good milkers, so longevity and desire to continue to milk many months after freshening may be just the answer for some. Our milkers produce their volume on good quality grains with minerals and vitamins added. They are also fed local Timothy/Brome mixed hay. Dairy Alfalfa is shipped from the lower-48 and fed only for several months in relation to their gestation, not as a sole hay source. We do take pride that our girls produce well on feed available to most people regardless of location and feel that the particular genetics we are working with are hardy, strong, and easy keepers, traits some people value greatly. Oh, and they're beautiful too!
2005 High Milk Test, 2-20-05, 5.0#'s!!
2004 AGS Grand Champion Senior Doe, Alaska State Fair
2005 ADGA/AGS 2 x Grand Champion Senior Doe
2 x Best Udder
DOB 03/04/01 19 3/4"
ADGA Linear 2007: VVEE Excellent!
Sire:Twin Creeks Phantom Menace *S
(Twin Creeks PD Megabuck X MCH Twin Creeks BH Phantom Bride *D 'E')
Dam: Piddlin Acres Whistlin Dixie 'VG'
(Inavale Valentino X MCH/PGCH Piddlin Acres Revelee 'E')
RED/BRN CHAMOISEE W/BLACK.
2005 test results:
DHIA 3.0-302-813-52-35
2004 test results:
DHIA 2.04-157-546#milk -29#bf
2003/2004 Milk test results:
DHIA 1.11- 305 - 597# milk - 40# butterfat
Scarlet brings to our herd a pedigree and overall bloom that we were looking for. Her high withers, excellent width, wonderful strong front construction, nice bone and great length all add up to a fantastic package, let alone a calm doe and affectionate personality which she passes on to her kids. Her second-freshening udder was quite nice with good medial, blending smoothly, easy to milk with large orafices, and capacious. She is a consistant and easy milker, and an extremely healthy doe. Her slick shiny summer coat is evidence that giving milk for a full lactation takes nothing away from this girl at all!
Scarlet was bred to Jobi Cloud*S, a lovely mammary buck from a TopTen milk-production herd and her daughter Vanilla Bean, remains in our herd and has qualified for her dairy star AND AR on her first freshening!! Scarlet was bred to Jobi Thunder*S for May 2007 kidding, but no pregnancies resulted. She had a terribly rough kidding in 2006 resulting in torn tissues and has not gotten pregnant since...we have our hopes still but the future will tell if our beautiful girl has kids again for us!
If Scarlet does get bred, we will be retaining all doelings.
DOB: 08-11-01 21 3/8"
Official milk test and one day test, February, 2005 - 6.6#'s, breaking the all time high! This girl's udder is AWESOME!
2006 update - she outdid herself! 6.8#'s on a one day test, Patience ties for 1st place on One Day Test!
Photo above is at 12 hours of milk, 36 days fresh!
2004 DHIA: 2.09 - 179-689-40
ME: 1067
2005 DHIA: 3.06 - 290-1016-66-44
ME: 1037
2006 - we've gone down to milking once a day (because of other farm obligations) so don't expect any high numbers this year, but in 163 days she's already milked 733 pounds at 6% average butterfat - wow!
2004 AGS Best Udder in Show, Alaska State Fair. 2005 Rs Ch Alaska State Fair AGS!
Sire: Artist's Eye Dressed To Impress
(Ponders End The Full Monty x Ponders End CR Chardonnay)
Dam: Piddlin Acres Twilight
(MCH Piddlin Acres Neon Deion x Piddlin Acres Midnight Star 'E')
Just look at that udder - sucked up high and wide with great attachments, medial, floor, and easy to milk teat size! WOW!! Almost identical twins with her sister Faith, Chamoisee in the front half, white in the rear half with tan markings on the hocks. She easily met the requirements for her AR as a first freshener. Nice, smooth foreudder and great medial, and very well attached! Her teats also hang down straight when she is in full lactation, unlike the show photo when she was nearly dried up. Nice level topline and width, we'd like to see just a bit more blending from shoulders into neck. Photo in full haircoat, not clipped . Strong bone with correct legs and feet, excellent overall capacity with nice spring of rib and depth. She produces kids that are even more dairy in appearance. She and her sister freshened with live quads in 2005, and again in 2006. 2007 gave us twin doelings; 2008 quads again.
We chuckled when the linear appraiser had to evaluate her with an almost dry udder - certainly not his fault he didn't see her udder beauty! When we were done we shared photos and his mouth dropped open...but that's not uncommon when it comes to our dear lady Patience. Thus her udder appraisel was pretty poor....we're looking forward to our next LA session in 2009. We have retained a beautiful doe born in 2008 that we now have as well as a son for future use. Patience has been bred to Xoohoo for December kidding.
DOB: 06/07/98 19" 1 x RsGCH
High milk test date 03/19/06 - 4.6 pounds!
2006 DHIA: 7:06 - 161-447-28-19 (milking once a day this summer because of other farm obligations, and still milking as of 09-03-06!)
2005 DHIA: 6.09 - 248-587-36-26
2004 DHIA: 5.08 - 224-538-28
2004 & 2005 1st Place 5 yrs & Older AGS Class, Alaska State Fair.
Sire: Tupence Journeyman 'VG'
(MCH Goodwood Mr Moonlight x Inavale Kelsey)
Dam: Tupence Pecan Sandy 2 x GCH
(Goodwood Dark Daddy x Brush Creek Shaker)
Ginger is one of our special does who has outstanding foundation bloodlines. The photo above is the pits... we DID take lots of nice photos at our AGS show but alas, the photographer's film failed and we have no photos! AUGH! She is FAR nicer than the photo above shows, but that doesn't really matter - what does is that her daughters are gorgeous! She has very nice large teats and orifaces, excellent capacity and is easy to milk, has strong legs and feet, up on her pasterns even at 10+ years of age, and correct structure with very good overall width and depth. Ginger arrived as an 'older doe' and she wasn't milked full time before, but what a cooperative angel she is. And each year she still INCREASED in milk weight! Her temperment speaks volumes for the quality of this doe. She is affectionately called "Auntie Ginger" since she will take care of any kids left in her charge, including happily feeding them. She likes to have you sit with her for a while and will quietly talk to you the whole time too. Actually a petite doe in height, her kids so far have had excellent dairy-like qualities and are also 'more dairy'' than she. Her 2006 buckling took Grand Champion Junior Buck at the Alaska State Fair at only 6 months of age.
She gave birth to a beautiful doeling sired by Sebastian Sept 16th 2007 which we have retained. Ginger's daughters from 2006 and 2007 are winning big in the show ring with mutliple first places and show legs. Her latest progeny win is her 2007 daughter, "Stinker", who took Grand Champion ND Junior Doe over 18 other juniors in the classes. Not bad! Waiting from 2006 has done well in the classes including 1st's. Ginger has been as asset to our breedin program. At more than 10 years of age now, we hope to have her kid in spring of 2009 for us.
DOB 4-21-02 Ht: 20 3/8" HES: 89.65 EXCELLENT!
ADGA Linear 2007: VEE+ (stale udder)
Sire: MCH Rosasharn's Under My Thumb+*S, 'E'
(ARMCH Goodwood Tom Thumb +*S 'E'; '97 & '00 AGS National Best of Breed Buck
x ARMCH Goodwood Water Lilly*D, 'E'; '00 AGS National Best of Breed and Best Udder)
Dam: ARMCH Rosasharn Bella's Bonnie Too 2*D 'VG'
(Rosasharn's Kamehameha 'VG' x ARMCH Rosasharn's Baby Bella*D, 'E')
Show record: 1 x Jr. Grand Champion, 1x Rs Gr Ch Sr
High test day 3-19-06 - 6.1#'s!!!!!!
2004: 2.00-210-542-32(5.9)-23(4.2)
2005: 2.11-260-663-50-30
2006: 3.10-169-686-43-31 as of 9-3-06, being milked once a day to other farm obligations this time!
Bella Rooooooo was a welcomed addition to our herd! And what an incredible udder - high, wide, and well-attached. She's produced 6.1 pounds at a one day test in 2006! WOW! An awesome milker with a wonderful udder and a wonderful mother.
She kidded with live quads in 2005, triplets in 2006, and again in 2007. We have retained her fabulous daughter Wahoo, sired by our Sebastian, 2007 Alaska State Fair Best in Show goat all breeds. Roo gave birth to triplets 12/24/07, but we tragically lost her 5 days later due to post kidding problems. This is a huge loss, one that's going to take us a long time to get over. We will miss our Roo terribly, she was special. We retained her son by Sebastian and he is the sire of a group of our best does due December 2008 and we expect some very dairy and excellent milk producers from these kiddings, as well as show quality of course.
DOB: 3-10-1998
21 1/2" @ 3 years
Show Record: 2 X 2nd, 1 X 3rd.
HES 88.0 (88 88 88 88)
First test day 2002: 5.5 pounds!! Wow!
Barn high test day 2006: 5.6 pounds
2001 Milk Record: 2.06-197-423-30(7.1%)-20(4.7%)
SIRE: Jobi Chase*S
ss: Gay-Mor Berry's Jetstream ++*S
sd: Jobi Patches 2*D AR 1490
DAM: Gay-Mor's Dandy Kolumbine
ds: High Acre Halftone's Jim Dandy
dd: Gay-Mor Al's Heather 2*D AR1442
Chance is a flashy black and white pinto. She has very nice milkable and plumb teats, a smooth fore udder and very good capacity. She is extremely long, level topline and very dairy in style with thin dairy skin. She has a well-attached udder with well placed large teats, even now at 10 years old! It is soft and very easy to milk! Chancey is bred to Xoohoo fro December kidding.
2004 Alaska State Fair AGS Grand Champion Junior Doe.
2005 Alaska State Fair ADGA/AGS Grand Champion Senior Doe.
2006 Alaska State Fair ADGA/AGS Grand Champion Senior Doe.
DOB: 03/22/03
ADGA Linear 2007: VVEE - Excellent!
Sire: Lost Pines KW Foxglove*S
(Gay-Mor's RA Kingwood++*S x MCH Goodwood Fox*D)
Dam: Piddlin Acres Charity2*D 'E'
(#9 Top-Ten One Day Milk Test award for 2004!!)
(Jobi Toledo+*S 'VG' x MCH Piddlin Acres Diamond Deb 'E')
First one day milk test at 26 days in milk - 4.3 pounds!!!!! WOW!!!! And that was as a FIRST FRESHENER! Udder photo above taken during her first lactation. Time to put up a new one tho, it's even better with successive lactations of course!
Sayil is my long-awaited doeling out of an absolutely great doe, Charity, who has now passed away. Charity is a full sister to Piddlin Acres Alley Oops, 1999 #4 top ten milk producer and #10 in 2000. Charity herself took 9th place in the Top Ten one day tests for 2004. Sayil is a gorgeous doe who moves level on the walk, has high tight shoulders, flat from thurl to thurl and stands up on nice feet - and also has a very endearing personality. Her dam was an outstandingly productive milker. Her pedigree not only reflects excellent structure but high production in the milk pail too. We don't do a major clip for our big show in the fall up here simply because it's too late in the season and too close to winter. We did do a nice trimming but she's still a bit fuzzy in her show photo!
Sayil is a powerful doe without sacrificing dairyness. Deep and wide, well, her ADGA appraisal says it all. She has been bred to Xoohoo for December kidding.
(naturally polled)
2004 - Alaska State Fair Class Champion.
2006 - Ak State Fair, 2nd in her class!
2007 - Alaska State Fair. 1st place in her class!
DOB: 03/12/2003
ADGA Linear 2007: +EEV
Sire: QSF Party Chex
(Piddlin Acres Checkmate x Piddlin Acres Gold Whisper)
Dam : Piddlin Acres Calico Moon (naturally polled)
(Little Rascals Mufasa VG x MCH Piddlin Acres Neon Moon*D, 3 X Best Udder in Show)
Bella is a beautiful doe with excellent overall width, gorgeous topline, nice spring to her ribs and depth to her barrel, standing on excellent feet. She could use a tad tighter shoulders, but her kids are always an improvement! Her dam had a capacious, lovely udder with very nice sized teats, soooo easy to milk with large orifaces, she's my easiest doe to hand milk. I just really love this young girl, she is built just beautifully! Very nice hip to pins and thurl to thurl, we'd like to see just a bit more angulation to her rear legs but they are nice and square.
Bella is a great milker, giving us 5.2# on a one day test Summer 2007! She is polled. Bella was bred to Sebastian for Late January/early February kidding.
DOB: 01-29-05
Dam: ARMCH Twin Creek's PM Scarlet AR *M
Sire: Jobi Cloud*S
Grand Champion Sr. Doe and Best In Show ND July, 2007 - her first show!! Rs Gr Ch the next day.
NEWS! Vanilla's 2007 doeling went Grand Champion Junior Doe out of a class of 19 and then went on to take Best Junior In Show under Judge Daniel Considine at the Alaska State Fair 2008!
Vanilla is a lovely sweet natured girl that has been a pleasure to milk! A soft pliable udder, she's eager to get onto the milkstand. She walks with a lovely flat topline and tight shoulders on upright feet, great hips to pins and thurl to thurl, we could ask for more lateral attachments even tho her udder is nice and high and has one of the best foreudders in our herd. So, we'll put up with her lack of great laterals and breed her to strong lateral bucks!
Her high milk was 3.8 pounds on test for 2007, and produced more than that in 2008. She has been bred to Xoohoo for December freshening. We'll be looking for the next champion-potential daughter from this kidding!
DOB: 05/16/04
ADGA Linear 2007: +VE+ (stale udder) Very good!
Grand Champion Senior Doe Alaska State Fair AGS Show 2007!
Best Udder Alaska State Fair AGS Show 2007!
Dam: QSF DTI Patience*D AR
Sire: Jobi Tuxedo *S
Dotty is our broad and deep girl. She is a little powerhouse, we can't hide that. But she moves like a graceful swan,has an incredible udder, strong medial, and placed high in the escutcheon. I don't leave much milk in my girls for the show ring, and didn't realize I wasn't leaving enough until the judge for the 1st show, who had placed her 2nd in her class, got to see her later that night and placed her Grand Champion Sr Doe with the comment - amazing what a few hours more of milk has done for this doe! Her photo here is about 10 hours of milk at best, so not a 'show filled udder', and not even shaved (bad mom I am!). In 2007 she gave birth to triplet doelings and milked 3.8 pounds on test at 87 days into her lactation! Her mother Patience of course was tied for Number 1 on one day test in 2006, the first to break the all-time record having milked 6.8 pounds in one day! So we expect Dotty to improve with age, much like her dam has done for us, and that's exactly what she's doing too. We retained a gorgeous daughter of hers from her January freshening. Dotty is turning into a beautiful doe as she ages and her upcoming litter due December 2008 is an exciting one. bred to Xoohoo.
DOB: 02/03/05
ADGA Linear 2007: +EEV - VG
Sire: Jobi Cloud*S
Dam: QSF DTI Faith*D AR (Patience's full sister)
Violet is simply gorgeous. And she's a kick in the butt. A wild child as a doeling, it seemed to take forever to get this doe's attitude towards me to change, but it most certainly has and she looks for my attention now. I went to look for show photos of her and there's none to be found but I found a photo of her moving around in the senior doe pen so this will have to do for now. She has a very strong medial, plumb teats, and a very nice foreudder, but lacks some in lateral attachements.What she lacks in laterals she more than makes up for in the milk pail...and milks and milks and milks! She's an easy milker, with a 2nd freshening high on 3.9# on test. We expect her to keep increasing much like her mother did for us too. She is a smart goat, I have to give her credit. Never any trouble either. Her udder after her 2nd freshening is gorgeous, huge, plump teats, well attached. She is currently in milk and doing well, we're hoping for a nice spring 2009 kidding for her.
DOB: 3/30/05
Sire: Rosasharn's TL Unregrettable
SS: ARMCH Rosasharn's Tiger L ++*B ++*S
SD: ARMCH Rosasharn's Uni 2*M 2*D -
breed leader for milk production 2 years in a row!
Dam: Rosasharn's UMT Honey Bee 4*M 4*D AR
DS: Rosasharn's Under My Thumb +*B +*S
DD: ARMCH Rosasharn's Buckwheat Honey 3*M 3*D
2007 AGS National Champion Senior Doe and 2006 #2 breed leader for milk production!
What a stellar pedigree for milk production and show accomplishments! This girl's structure is everything we'd hoped for and then some. Bee Bee isn't the flashiest doe in the herd, in fact she's fairly plain-jane until you stand there and really look at her. Her udder is high and wide and deep with a strong medial and the best laterals in the herd, very nice large long teats that easy to milk, and an udder that milks down to nothing. She easily qualified for her dairy stars and AR's in both registries as a first freshener with more than 47 pounds of BF, being milked only once a day and STILL produced 617 pounds in 264 days...... AWESOME first freshener! She gave us beautiful twin doelings in 2-9-07 and once again 12-31-07. We retained a doeling from this breeding to Jobi Cloud. BeeBee was bred to Xoohoo for a linebreeding on Rosasharn genetics, specifically Under My Thumb who provided great contributions for milk production, and is due December 2008.
DOB: 2-11-06
2007 Alaska State Fair Best In Show!! WOW!
Dam: Rosasharn's UMT Bella Roo 3*D *M AR
Sire: +*B MCH/CH Twin Creek's WB Sebastian Bach*S
Wahoo carries 'look at me' genes from both sides of the family no doubt - this doe LOVES attention! She's a character and a half. She's also very lovely, a long and level topline, straight feet, smoothly blended, a strong brisket, and feminine. I am very proud of this girl, as a first freshener she easily attained her dairy star doing a one day test and milking 3.2#! Wahoo is a wonderful goat in a wonderful package that is still maturing, we're pleased to be her breeder. Her full brother has been retained as a herd sire. Wahoo is presently in milk and will be bred for spring 2009 kidding.
DOB: 2-11-05
Sire: ARMCH Rosasharn's Tiger L ++*B ++*S (a Raising Arizona son)
Dam: Stonewall's Baby 'Uddercup *D AR
DS: Brush Creek Shilo
DD: Goodwood Rosa Parks*D, the first doe in AGS to ever receive her dairy star, way back in 1988!!
Squeeks, as she's affectionately known here, is a wonderful little tiny doe. She is here for the party...oh wait, that's here for the genetics! Her genetics are awesome "old" genes, going back to committee registered animals. Even our poor ADGA appraiser just didn't know what to think about our little girl...but how VERY useful she will be to clean up any overheight tendencies that may be lurking in a herd! Her mother was once a breed leader for milk production too. She tho is defying the word on the street that Tiger's daughter's are tall - this girl remains a small petitie doe, the smallest in my herd. I expected Squeeks to grow up slowly, and she has. She is loved by everyone that comes to visit or wherever she goes as a breed representative in public - people all love her, including us! I've always liked her kid photo above, so it's there. She has always squeeked instead of yelling when it's time to be milked or to eat, so the name has stuck. Our little girl produced fabulous twins for us in February of 2007, we have retained her beautiful black and white pinto daughter sired by Sebastian. Because we have her daughter and her granddaughter and are limiting our numbers, Squeeks is available. She has been bred to Xoohoo for late December freshening.
