DOB: 24 March 2009.
Registered American Togg buck. Freddie sure did his job for us! Ten kids born this spring to four of our does. He is throwing some beautiful kids and we're excited to see how they do at the fair this year. Pictured with his breeder, Emily Rife.
DOB: 7 April 2008.
Registered American Togg Doe. I brought Tabu home with me after attending my first Goat Show in Columbia City May 15th. Was fun to watch her dam win her age class (5 and over), then win Breed, then win Best in Show! Tabu freshened for the first time this spring. Thank you to Bill & Barb Tucker.
Jezabelle and Haley on right: Grand Champ Jr. Swiss Doe. Ju-Ju and Abby on Left: Rsv. Champ Jr. Swiss Doe - 2009 St. Joseph County 4H Fair. Twin sisters.
Rsv. Grand Champion Jr. Dairy Doe 2009 St. Joseph County 4H Fair
DOB: 17 March 2009.
50% Tog, 25% Alpine, 25% Nubian
Haley was thrilled to show Jezabelle at the fair last year. She is in with Freddie right now - hoping for a late summer kidding.
Rsv. Champion Jr. Swiss Doe 2009 St. Joseph County 4H Fair
DOB: 17 March 2009.
50% Tog, 25% Alpine, 25% Nubian
Abby with Ju-Ju Bean. She threw a beautiful doe, Toot's, this late February. Ju-Ju has a beautifully arched escutcheon and very good rear udder attachment; just a slight pocket in the fore udder attachment that may smooth out with another freshening.
DOB: 23 February 2010.
Our first kid born this year, and a surprise at that. We had kept (or tried) Ju-Ju and Jezabelle separate from Fred, as we were going to wait another year to breed them. Well, Ju-Ju kept escaping and we'd find her in with Fred. It never occured to me (dah) that she could possibly have gotten bred! So, we were surprised one night at chore time, to find Ju-Ju with a kid next to her! She's a beautiful doe.
DOB: 17 March 2010.
We are esctatic that we finally have kids out of Nellie. And three does at that!
Grand Champion Dairy Doe - 2008 St. Joseph County 4H Fair
DOB: 15 Jan 2005.
50% Tog, 50% Nubian
Nellie was one of our first goats. Our daughter Abby wanted to show goats in mini-4H so we purchased Nellie (and Money) from our friend Chad Zahner (Crazy Chad's Goat Farm, Wakarusa, IN). Nellie is the self-proclaimed Queen-Bee of the herd.
We are so happy that Nellie finally had her first live set of babies on March 17th - triplet does!
Rsv. Champion Sr. Swiss Doe - 2009 St. Joseph County 4H Fair
50% Alpine, 50% Nubian
Katie is the sweetheart of the group. She can tie her ears back behind her head, although she looks pretty ornery when she does it!
Katie is a herdsman's dream - twins each spring, by herself, never any problems, dutiful mom, and produces better then herself.
DOB: Dec 2007.
Izzy for short. Izzy had a rough time of it last spring - she had to have a c-section to remove a dead kid. She recovered splendidly, and we are hoping things go better for her next time. Fred is still running with her, hopefully she will catch.
Rsv. Champion Mother/Daughter Boer Goat (with Roma) - 2008 St. Joseph County 4H Fair
Rsv. Champion Sr. Boer Doe - 2007 St. Joseph County 4h Fair
Percentage Doe DOB: 30 Jun 2005. If Nellie ever decides to step down from her position as Head Goat, Cinnamon will be right there
to take her place. Cinnamon is a very nice goat - deep and long. She raised triplets this last
spring (2009). She has a beautiful single doe kid this spring.
DOB: 6 April 2008.
Percentage doe, 75%
Roma is Cinnamon's daughter. She too is a nice Boer doe, out of a 100% Boer buck. Roma followed in her mom's footsteps, and gave us a set of triplets this March - 2 bucks and 1 doe.
Rsv. Grand Champion Market Goat - 2005 St. Joseph County 4-H Fair
BoerX wether.
Money. Big Money. Money was the He was originally purchased to be a mini 4-H goat for Abby, but as he developed, it was obvious that he had greater aspirations. Haley ended up showing him in the Market class (Abby wasn't old enough). He is a big baby and is quite content to live out his days with the girls, eating hay, lots of hay!
3/4 Nubian, 1/4 Alpine
DOB: Mar 2007.
Skipper is Abby's cart goat. He is a smart little guy and has done very well at the fair for Abby: Rsv. Champion Harness Goat (2007) and Champion in 2008 and 2009. Katie is his mother.
We are now members of ADGA with the herd name GBF Goats. I've started the process to get our goats recorded so that we can work on producing Registered American Togs. Mudd Creek Goats Fred, a Registered American Togg, joined us late last summer and he has thrown some beautiful kids for us this Spring.
Fred did a great job with our does:
... JuJu - single doe (Toots) born Feb 23rd.
... Roma - triplets; 2 bucks and 1 doe born March 7th.
... Katie - twin bucks born March 11th.
... Cinnamon - single doe born March 14th.
... Nellie - triplet does born March 17th.
Chester (top), Urchin (bottom left), and Jasper (bottom right), 2007.
Grand Champion - Sylvester, 2006.
Rsv. Grand Champion - Money, 2005.
St. Joseph County 4-H Goat Club. There are a lot of very nice families involved with this club. If you have kids (both kinds!), live in the St. Joseph County area and are not involved with 4-H yet, you should get involved with this great group of people.