NEWS NEWS NEWS!!!
Summer of 2009 brought another thrill - at the first show of the season in May, all of the ND's that took Grand or Reserve Grand wins in Junior and Senior Does as well as Bucks were Silveraurora-bred and belong to other herds. Thank you for showing these boys and girls to their best!
More news for 2009.....we finishd our Linear Appraisals and had 15 adults appraised, of which 10 were Very Goods! We also had some very nice resultson our Youngstock appraisals too.
In the June 2009 show, I am happy to report that Fair Skies won Grand Champion Senior doe with a first freshener bought as a kid from Silveraurora! Way to go!
We are quite pleased that one of our junior does that we sold to the Fair Skies Herd last 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 in 2008 as a number of Grand and Reserve wins went to others who own and care so well for our goats, and they did so AGAIN in 2009. Thank you to all of you who have done so well!
AS ALWAYS, WHOLE HERD TESTED FOR CAE AND JOHNE'S EARLY SPRING 2009 AND WHOLE HERD NEGATIVE. Never any CL detected in our goats nor on our property.
We've had a wonderful 2008 and 2009 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 -
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. We also participate in ADGA Linear Appraisals when they are held in Alaska (usually every other year). Sorry, the photos aren't all as new as they should be, but check back often for new pictures, some coming in late July 2009!
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 we prodcue here on the farm. 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 passed on to her kids. Her second-freshening udder was quite nice with good medial, blending smoothly, easy to milk with large orafices, and capacious, and it improved with her third freshening.
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!! Her granddaughters are winning in the show ring and doing very well in the milk pail too. Scarlet is retired as she has been unable to conceive after a very difficult delivery.
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 tho. She's produced outstanding doe kids for us who've done very well in the show ring and milk pail too. She is our matriarch and still gave us a beautiful buck kid in 2009 at 11 years of age, a testiment to her good health and longevity.
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 11 years old, she still thinks she's boss! Chance was bred to Cloud and is due July 2009 with a single.
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.
(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. She gave us a striking single boy sired by Sebastian in 2008 which we have retaind. Bella was bred to Cloud for July 2009 kidding. A doe kid will be retained, and she looks to be carrying quads!
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. We're looking forward to her next lactation as we needed to dry off some does early this year and she was in that group. Of course now I kick myslf for that because she's an easy milker and I wish I had that milk! Ha!
DOB: 02/03/05
ADGA Linear 2007: +EEV - VG
LA 2009: 88 VVEV - Very Good!
Sire: Jobi Cloud*S
Dam: QSF DTI Faith*D AR (Patience's full sister)
Violet is simply gorgeous to me. 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 barn high of 4.5#. 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. She gave us triplets spring of 2009 and I have retained a doe kid.
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. Plans are to breed her to our udder buck, Jobi LA Thunder who recently LA'd as an 88. We've been waiting for Thunder's kids to freshen and boy, did HE add capacity and put on the laterals - yowzer! With BB's nice laterals already, this will be the breeding to watch for a buck kid.
DOB: 2-11-06
LA 2009: 88 VEEV Very Good!
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 dairy. She is a larger doe but when you put your hands on her, her dairy character and body is outstanding. 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#! She is presently in milk from a spring 2009 kidding. Lucky us (not), she decided she only wanted her triplets to feed on one side preferably, and yuck, does it show. We'll dry her off and breed her this winter again and this time, I'm pulling those kids! So much for her 2009 show season.....sigh....
DOB: 02-15-06
Sire: Jobi Jet*S
SS: Gay-Mor Berry's Jetstream++*S
SD: Jobi Aida 4*D AR
(ADGA Top Ten 2006 #4milk/ 2005 #8; 2006 #3BF; 2006 #4protein)
Dam: Jobi Cherry 2*M AR
(ADGA#9BF)
DS: Goodwood KW Roy Rogers+*S
DD: Twin Creeks BH Homemade Vanilla*S AR
Plum is a refined doe with very nice structure, but a crabby doe when she doesn't want to do something. She's one of those that hunches her back and refuses to move when she doesn't like what you're asking. She kidded with twin doelings in July 2007, bred to Jobi Thunder, of which we retained one, the other giong to a show and milk home and having already won a Best of Breed championship leg as a first freshener! Her first day on milk test yielded 3.1# with an udder sucked tight and very high into the escutcheon and very good lateral attachments as well as medial. She has great milking bloodlines and is very feminine. She was not kept in milk her first freshing but instead we dried her off and bred her for late spring 2008 kidding. She freshened with very nice twins 2009. Now if we can get her attitude on the milkstand sqaured away.....done!