November 2011 ADGA released their 2nd Annual Superior Genetics Awards for Nigerian Dwarves. New SG goats for us this year are:
ARMCH/SG Twin Creeks PM Scarlet *M *D
SG Silveraurora JC Vanilla Bean 2*M 2*D, dam to SGCH Silveraurora TH XBean 3*M below.
ARMCH/SGGCH Sandy Hills Hollow KF Sayil 2*M 2*D
SG Rosasharns UMT Bella Roo 1*M 1*D (deceased)
ADGA released it's FIRST Superior Genetics Awards for Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats, December 2010.
Of the 41 goats honored with the title "SG", I am very proud to be the breeder of two of them:
SGCH Silverurora's TH Xbean 3*M 3*D AR
and
SG Silveraurora's SB Wahooroo 2*M 3*D AR
I have a full sister here to Xbean and also Wahoo's daughter, both in our junior herd, looking to the future.
Also - congratulations go out to Silveraurora SB Xplicit, LA - E90, owned by Julie Shere in Wisconsin who recently went Best of Breed/Best Udder in TWO ADGA rings!
2011 Appraisals went very well - all 10 ND's appraised scored from 87 to 90!
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2010 DHI production awards released in 2011 - congratulations go to:
QSF DTI Patience & Jobi Plum - tied for 4th place in the AGS Top Ten One Day Milk Test milk production!
2009 DHI production awards released in 2010 - congratulations go to:
Silveraurora CC Xpress - ADGA TOP TEN 2009 for Butterfat production!
Silveraurora JC Whispersweetly - ADGA TOP TEN 2009 for Protein production!
Silveraurora TH Xtreme Grace - AGS One Day Test High Protein Top Ten
Silveraurora CC Xcella - AGS One Day Test High Butterfat Top Ten
Also, we celebrate finishing yet another dual champion! Sandy Hills Hollow KF Sayil finished her dual championship in August, 2010, by going Best of Breed and went on to take
Best Senior Doe In Show at the ADGA Alaska State Fair show!
Sayil has been a wonderful doe with just the sweetest disposition, but she is also an incredible show girl. As the judge commented, at 7 years of age not only is she a well-put together doe but also didn't put a foot wrong the whole show.
It was a thrilling win!
A number of our girls owned by others were also winning in the show ring as well as awarded honors by ANDDA in the All American competition, which you can view on the ANDDA website!
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I've finally updated most of the Senior Doe webpage. Over the past few years we've reduced our numbers to better manage our herd as well as enjoy our girls. We've kept our best show and brood does as well as a few juniors. Hopefully we've gotten rid of 'fluffy' talk and just tell you what we see in each that makes them special to our herd. To provide milk but also have strength and stamina in almost artic conditions on local grass hays requires a strong doe, and we have no room for pretty show champions that are not able to convert average feed into good milk. ND's are GREAT component producers, and we are very happy with the protein and butterfat our girls contribute to cheese making for those who own does from us. You'll find milk and beauty in our girls as well as size and hardiness. Welcome to Silveraurora!
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AS ALWAYS, WHOLE HERD TESTED FOR CAE AND JOHNE'S JANUARY 2010 AND WHOLE HERD NEGATIVE. Never any CL detected in our goats nor on our property. We'll test for CL on our next whole herd test, but all of our goats or kids that have been sold to others who elected to test for CL before purchase have been negative for CL before leaving our herd.
Silveraurora is proud to announce the following awards we received for our 2005, 2006, and 2007 Top Ten One Day Test milk production - 2008 and 2009 will be added soon! But I can add that as of Fall 2010, 2 of our goat kids sold to other herds are now listed in the ADGA Top Ten for 2009 high protein/ high butterfat. Thanks go out to the breeders of our foundation animals that have made this possible.
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).
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! Plumb teats too. Patience has been a wonderful brood doe and passed on nice milk production genetics to her kids. She has the shorter old-style rump but bred to a long flatter-rumped buck produced kids that did well in the show ring. At 9 years old and after producing quads nearly every litter every year, she is still in excellent health and will be bred this winter.
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.
2010 Alaska State Fair ADGA Grand Champion Senior Doe at over 7 year of age and BEST IN SHOW!
DOB: 03/22/03
ADGA Linear 2007: FS 90
(dry for 2009)
2011:VEEE- FS 90 Permanent Score
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 - very nice
Dual Champion Sayil is my long-awaited doe 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 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-balanced - her ADGA appraisal and wins 'say enough'. We love our girl! Thank you Karma, our planning sure was good!
(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 and depth to her barrel, standing on excellent feet. She is one of our easiest to milk with large teats and orifaces. She also produces quads most of the time.
Bella is a great milker, giving us 5.2# on a one day test Summer 2007! She is polled. She gave us a striking boy sired by Sebastian in 2008 which we have retained. She is now a valued brood doe with a super personality she passes on to her kids too.
DOB: 01-29-05
LA 2011: VEEV FS 88
Dam: ARMCH Twin Creek's PM Scarlet AR *M
Sire:+*B Jobi Cloud +*S
Grand Champion Sr. Doe and Best In Show ND July, 2007 - her first show!! Rs Gr Ch the next day. Ok, so she's NOT an ugly doer!
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. A nice yearling I shouldn't have sold but we can't keep them all.
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 and a nice flat rump.
Her high milk was 3.8 pounds on test, 2007.
DOB: 02/03/05
ADGA Linear 2007: +EEV - VG
LA 2009: 88 VVEV - Very Good!
2011 - not in milk (hadn't kidded yet)
Sire:+*B 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. Another of our lovely brood does with nice kids on the ground. 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 3.9# high on test. . She is a smart goat, I have to give her credit. Never any trouble either.
DOB: 02-15-06
LA 2011 - +VEE - FS 88
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#9 Top Ten BF)
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 have retained one waiting in the wings, the other going to a show and milk home and having already won a Best of Breed championship leg as a first freshener and milking well over 4 pounds easily. Plum's 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. Her high test day milk has been 4.6 pounds, accomplished in 2010. She outproduces herself and we've kept a daughter and granddaughter in our herd for milk genetics. I just hate showing this doe because SHE hates showing, but her kids here are an improvement on attitude that goes along with their beautiful structure and great milk genetics.
DOB: 9-16-07
LA 2011: VEEV FS88
Dam: Tupence Ginger Snap *M *D
Sire: GCH/ARMCH +B Twin Creek's WB Sebastian Bach *S
Xrinker is just that - an adorable doe with the personality of her sweet dam and a twinkle in her eye like her sire. Her genetics are stellar; she's get an attitude on the milk stand but she will indeed milk if you don't tick her off. She's won a leg towards her championship at the Alaska State Fair ADGA/AGS show in 2008. She has matured beautifully with a nice productive udder and good structure with moderate height. She has the strong health of her dam too - making her a very desirable and appreciated doe that also produces friendly kids!
DOB: 8-25-2008
YS - VG, E, E - Excellent
LA 2011: +EEV FS87
Sire: Lost Valley TB Seminole *B
Dam: Tx Twincreeks Starfire 1*M
Lumi is a wonderful, well put together Chamoise doe with correct feet, level topline, and a very nice and very dairy overall appearance. She got lost on the herd past year
DOB: 8-29-2008
YS appraisal - VG
LA 2011: V+EE FS 88
1x Rs Gr Ch and Best Udder 1st show July 2011
Sire: Piddlin Acres PV Pokemon
Dam: MCH/GCH Tx Twincreeks WDF Sarafina 5*M 2*D
Another of our herd favorites, Sara sat out last year as we were only able to attend 1 show at the end of the show season. She too is a beautiful chamoise with such wonderful dairy character, level topline, and excellent feet and legs. She will do well in the show ring! At her first show July 2011, she went Reserve Grand Champion and took Best Udder.
DOB: 1-7-2008
YS - V,+,V - Very Good
LA 2011: hadn't kidded yet
Sire: Dual Champion Twincreeks WB Sebastian Bach +*B +*S
Dam: QSF DTI Patience *M *D
Multiple AGS Top Ten awards
Yada is a flashy doe with very good width and depth and a nice milkable udder, with a very nice uphill stance. She too has sat in the wings but holds good promise both in the milkpail and the show ring.
DOB: 7-07
LA 2011: +VEV FS 87
Dam: Jobi Plum
Sire: Jobi LA Thunder
Much like her dam, Love is a valued part of our breeding program. One of her buck kids will be leaving shortly to a herd in the lower-48 to improve milk production traits.