GCH/ARMCH Algedi Farm S Honey Heart 1*M 5*D
DOB 2/23/5  height 21 1/2"
1 xRGCH Jr, 6xRGCH Sr, 7xGCH Sr, 2x BU, 2 x BOB
2008 LA: VVEV 88
2010 LA: VVEV 87

Sire: Kaapio Acre's KK Sultan *S
(MCH Rosasharn Tom's Keiki Kane x Gay-Mor's RA Nesselrode *D AR1689)
Dam: SGCH Rosasharn's UMT Tupelo Honey 4*D VVEE
(ARMCH Rosasharn's Under My Thumb +S x ARMCH Rosasharn's Buckwheat Honey 3*D 'E'(2007 AGS Nat'l Champion!))

Honey has lots of dairy character and is such a show ring queen- set her up and she won't move; put her in the back of our truck and she runs right into her crate, eager to get to the show.  I suppose it could have something to do with her knowing just how good she looks.  Honey is well put together- she's got wonderful feet and legs, and is long, sharp and has a great front end assembly. Her udder has very nice shape and texture, with exceptional side attachments, and very easy to milk orifices.  She had to go grand champion a few extra times in order to finish because her ears somehow kept reabsorbing her tattoos, but she finally got there, becoming a fourth generation finished champion on her maternal side.   

We've decided that at 11 years of age, it's time for Honey to retire. We try our best to let our does tell us when they are done having kids, and honey has started showing her age. We'd rather she have a nice retirement than to take a chance with another pregnancy, so she'll spend the rest of her days keeping an eye on things and keeping our LGD company.

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Sire: MCH-CH Pecan Hollow Willy's Dance Fever *S
(Rosasharn Tom's Bit-A-Willy *S x MCH Little Rascals Dance For Joy *D)
Dam: MCH-CH Goodwood Good Day Sunshine E (2006 AGS Nat'l Champion!)
(ARMCH Goodwood Kauri Tree ++*S x Goodwood Purple People Eater VG)

Sunsprite's dam is an example of long gevity in the Nigerian breed, having finished her MCH as a six year old. With the addition of Nigerians to the ADGA herd books, Sunshine came out of retirement and completed her championship as a nine year old, and to top that off, as a 10 year old, 12th freshening doe became the AGS National Champion Doe!  Sunsprite has lived up to my expectations, freshening with a well attached, soft udder with very milkable teats, and one of the stronger MSLs in our herd.  She is proportionally a very long doe, with a an exceptionally tight front end assembly and super sharp withers, good feet and legs, and she practically prances while on the move. She is the dam of GCH CRF Castle Rock Tuscan Sun and GCH Castle Rock Sun Sapphire.

Unfortunately, when we lost our website a few years ago, that meant all of the pictures that lived on that server and not one particular computer were lost. Somehow, the only picture we have of Sunsprite is this rear udder picture, which is better than nothing. Her daughter, Sun Sapphire looked very much like Sunsprite, but with improved udder capacity.

MCH/SGCH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D
DOB 10/15/5 height 19 3/4"
ADGA: 3xRGCH, 3xGCH, 3xBU, 3x BOB
AGS: 3x GCH,2xBU
NDGA: 2xGCH, 4xBU
Top 10 in 2008 on one day milk test!
LA: VVEV 87

Sire: PGCH The Promises Pay It Forward
(Twin Creeks WB Hero of the Day *S x JVJ Whispering Hope)
Dam: Copper Penny Misty Blue *D AR 1963
(Goodwood Loganberry x Copper Penny Sky Blue Glory)

I waited through several sets of triplet bucks to get Moon, and even then she was the only doe from a set of quads. I definitely think she was worth the wait! Moon is one of our smallest milkers, but that doesn't stop her from doing her best to keep up with Sky in the milk bucket.  On a one day test at the AGS National Show, she produced 4.1 lbs of milk- an incredible amount of milk for a doe that can't be much over 40 lbs. herself! At the time, she was under 17 inches tall, and managed to earn a spot on the Top 10 list, both for test points and for high milk for one day milk test! The next shortest doe was three inches taller than Moon, and it's too bad we weren't able to do another milk test in 2009 to see how she would have done.  She stands on a great set of feet with exceptionally strong pasturns, has good capacity both in body and udder, and carries a high wide udder that does not move when she walks. She has tight elbows, with exceptionally flat bone and good sweep to her ribs, along with very dairy skin. She is one of my favorites on the farm, being not only a great milker but also having an outstanding personality. 

Without our realizing it, in early 2010 Moon had somehow developed tooth rot in a molar, which caused the teeth on either side of it to start going necrotic as well. She never exhibited any signs of pain, or reluctance to eat while on the milk stand, but apparently the tooth pain kept her from eating enough and we lost Moon very suddenly to pregnancy toxemia just a few days before she was due. In 2012, she was awarded her SG (superior genetics) designation, and I'm very happy with the influence she continues to have on our herd, most notably through her son Harvest Moon, as well as daughters CH Castle Rock Moon River, and CRF Castle Rock Lunar Eclipse.

Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B+S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++B ++*S x CH-MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven VEEE 90)
Dam: SGCH-MCH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D
(PGCH The Promises Pay It Forward x Copper Penny Misty Blue *D AR 1963)

Luna is a very small, well put together doe, who would probably do better in the show ring if she were just a wee bit taller. It is somewhat frustrating that a doe from a breed that is supposed to be small has gotten comments like "she lacks the stature to move her further up the line", especially as she is very proportional and everything comes together in an eye pleasing way. She has very nice dairy character, sharpness, strong pasturns, good front end assembly and length of body. Her udder is held up with a snug MSL, has butter soft texture and very good teat placement, and her capacity continues to hold up very well as she is moving into the "aged doe" category. Luna left our herd as a kid, but I jumped at the chance to bring her back when it came up, and am so happy I did- she's a very affectionate doe (one might even call her agressively friendly since she will shove her head under your hand while you attempt to pet someone else), who makes me smile just about every day.

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The summer of 2017 was a brutally hot one in California, and we had some crazy swings in temperature- from reasonable summer heat to extremely hot with little overnight cooling. This heat triggered listeriosis in Luna, and after three weeks of intensive treatment, she pulled through, but I'm sure her prolonged struggle with it and slow recovery from the symptoms had something to do with her passing away just a couple of weeks after her 10th birthday.

Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir ++B +S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++B +*S x MCH-CH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven VEEE 90)
Dam: SG Castle Rock Annabelle
(Buttin'Heads Sharp No.2 Pencil x PGCH Twin Creeks WB Christabelle *D)

Roxanne is a very long necked, angular, and wide doe with good blending and a smoothly blended front end assembly with a flat topline.  Even though still small, she has a tremendous amount of width between her hocks on the move- a trait that runs pretty strongly on the maternal side of her family tree. While she is a long bodied doe, I would like to see a little more width of body when viewed from above. She has soft udder texture, good teat placement and size, a strong foreudder, and is very easy to hand milk. As a five year old, she started to really hitting her stride, winning quite a few champion challenges, and Best Udder awards with an udder that is high, wide, capacious, and well attatched, with a strong MSL, and well placed teats. She continued to do well as a six year old, racking up her 20th Best of Breed award and winning a Best Udder in Show against the big girls. As a seven year old, she made it clear that she was so over this showing thing, and we figured with 21 Best of Breed wins, she has earned the right to relax at home. Update: in 2019, Roxanne freshened for the 10th time and looked so good, I just had to see if she would be okay with showing again, and at two weeks fresh, she picked up two more BOB and best udder wins! Gotta love a doe who holds up that well over time!

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir ++B +S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++*S ++B x CH-MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven VEEE 90)
Dam: Castle Rock Money Penny 2*D
(Twin Creeks PD MoneyintheBank +S 'VG' x Ponders End SL Faerie Dust *D)

Penny Wise seems to have really come into her own as a milker. She's the oldest kid I've ever attempted to get on a bottle and has always been a little wild as a result. Now that she is being milked twice a day, she's completely friendly and will jump over other does in the milker stall in order to personally greet me at milking time! She cracks me up! She is a very, very dairy doe with sharpness, angularity, flat bone, wonderful spring of rib, super pliable dairy skin, and look at that stretchy elegant neck. She has a very capacious udder with a strong MSL, large well defined teats with open orifices, and good teat placement. On linear appraisals, she has earned strong scores in strength, dairyness, rump angle, rump width, rear udder height, and medial suspensory ligament. Her second and third freshenings have produced an incredibly capacious udder, and that combined with her uphill profile and dairy character led to three easy grand champion wins in a row- our second doe to win all three champion legs at one show. Unfortunately, she did not freshen in 2015, so we were unable to include her on milk test or linear apraisal.

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir ++B +S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay +*S ++B x CH-MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven VEEE 90)
Dam: SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91
(Lost Valley KW Stetson *S x Castle Rock SnowFluryCeanothus 2*D)

As a kid, Black Ice was a rather unassuming doe who spent most of her time just hanging out at the farm. Finally, I decided to take her to her first show, and oh! the! drama! just to get her to walk out of the field. I was having second thoughts about show time, and wouldn't you know it- she walked into the ring and acted like showing was her favorite thing in the world, and ended up going reserve. What a diva! She has wonderful capacity, udder texture, high rear udder, medial suspensory ligament, teat placement, a very smoothly blended foreudder, and area of udder attachment. Like most of the does in my Sara line, she milks down extremely well and easily with large teats and open orifices. She has increasing width and depth throughout, her front legs are well placed under her shoulders, with good brisket extension, though ideally, those shoulders would be a bit tighter. Black Ice also has one of the widest rumps in the herd, a trait she shares with her dam. After doing so well on Linear Appraisal as a seven year old, I decided to take her to a show for champion challenge, and wouldn't you know, she went and won a best udder of breed and then Best Doe in Show! Less than a month later, she traveled to the ADGA National Show and was first placed aged doe, and was the 2015 Total Performer for Nigerians, and in 2016, she won two more Best Doe in Show ribbons! She has really seemed to enjoy going to shows as an eight year old, though I suppose well timed potato chips and lots of extra scratches may have something to do with that.

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Cobalt *S
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S x MCH-SGCH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D)
Dam: TX Twin Creeks WDF Sunsprite
(MCH-CH Pecan Hollow Willy's Dance Fever *S x MCH-CH Goodwood Good Day Sunshine E)

Our first kid of the 2009 kidding season was this lovely polled blue eyed doe kid, and as I was drying her off, I said to Andy "this one is definitely mine!" I guess she heard me, because even though she was dam-raised she runs to me like a bottle baby. She's long and level on the move, has a very elegant neck, lots of space between the ribs, and has a socked on udder with large, easy to milk teats with very good texture. She went through a very awkward second freshening- notice her 2012 LA score was the same for her second freshening as for her first-- and I almost decided to sell her, but there was a part of me that thought I should just be patient and wait for the next freshening. Her third freshening has definitely rewarded my patience, with her udder being high, wide, well attached, and pretty much everything I was hoping for, and we are very happy to see that her score has in fact, gone up.

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Sire: Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce *S
(ARMCH Rosasharn's Tiger L ++*S E x ARMCH Rosasharn's UMT Sassafras 5*D E)
Dam: ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine 2*M 2*D
(Twin Creeks BW Rebel w/o a Cause *S x ARMCH/CH/PGCH Esperanza WS Sara *D'VG')

Boo is a member of our second set of sextuplets to be born on our farm, and another kid I decided to keep before she was even completely dry. She is very well put together with good angularity, length of body, width between the hocks, a wide level rump, with good depth and width of barrel. She didn't get to many shows until her third freshening (in 2013), but finished her championship quite handily in one weekend. Her udder is quite soft, capacious, high, and wide with a nice MSL, and large teats that express easily. She's more dairy than she looks with a very strong will to milk. She is not milking quite as much as we would have expected this year, however, producing quintuplets does seem to have an impact on how well a doe produces, so we won't hold it against her.

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Sire: Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce ++B *S
(ARMCH Rosasharn's Tiger L ++*S E x ARMCH Rosasharn's UMT Sassafras 5*D E)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Roxanne 1*M *D VEEE 91
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S x SG Castle Rock Annabelle)

Annika, as is typical of her dam line, was a bit of a "sleeper" doe- in spite of having a high score for dairyness, and one of our higher yearling first freshener appraisal scores, she was rather overlooked in the show ring. However, as a second and third freshener, she showed us a tremendous area of udder attachment and capacity, good teat placement, and a high, wide rear udder, which tended to carry her to the head of the line, and earned her several rosettes. In 2013, she freshened a few days after the Nigerian Specialty show at REDGA (which was frustrating as I had really wanted to show her there), but finished her permanent championship at her first show of the year. She is very clean over the rump, stretchy, smoothly blended, with plenty of depth and width, and is one of our milkiest does. If anyone could make me regret skipping 305 day milk testing in 2013, it would be this doe. I'd like to see her a bit tighter in the shoulders. Her daughters by Cleveland Sage, SGCH Castle Rock Angelika VEEE 90 and CH Castle Rock Annika, have inherited their dam's dairyness and productivity.

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Sire: Copper Penny ROF Calico Jack
(Twin Creeks FAX Ring of Fire x MCH Ponders End MB Nevis)
Dam: GCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Tuscan Sun 1*M *D VEEE 90
(Woodhaven Farms Latigo +S x TX Twin Creeks WDF Sunsprite)

Sunsilk is a long bodied doe with lots of depth of body and really nice general appearance with good blending and she shows a very nice amount of dairy character. She has a very nice front end assembly with straight front legs, and I appreciate the angularity on this doe. Her udder is well attached, with good teat placement and texture. Time and space constraints kept her out of the show ring until her second freshening as a three year old, where she promptly went out and won three grand champion ribbons and two Best of Breeds- more impressive to me is that this meant she beat herdmate GCH CRF Castle Rock Roxanne two times in champion challenge!

Before taking Sunsilk to the 2015 National Show, she had always been a very easy to settle doe- basically if she looked at a buck in the fall, she would settle and produce quads. Since that show, she failed to settle, even living with bucks for months at a time. I am stumped as to what happened at the show to make it so she never settled again, but after failing to produce kids in 2018, we decided to move her along to a pet home.

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Sire: Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B *S
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S x SGCH Algedi Farm H Purple Rain 4*M 4*D VVEE 90)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Snownamie 4*D VEEE 90
(Castle Rock Harvest Moon ++B *S x SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)

Flash never made it into the show ring as a junior because every time I went to pull her out of the pasture to get her ready for a show, she was in yet another funky/awkward growth stage, and ended up staying home. She is our ugly duckling of a kid who has turned into quite the swan! Her first show weekend was all it took to win her permanent championship. We had a Nigerian Specialty show just a week after she completed her permanent championship, and she was once more GCH, and part of our first place Dam and Daughter entry, and our first place Best Three Does entry, and she repeated all of those wins again in August at the Sonoma County Fair. In 2015, she started the year out rough, with a challenging delivery on a Friday the 13th, which lived up to its bad reputation, and suffering a few complications from that. After lots of care, she finally bounced back, and bounced back in a big way! After winning National Champion and National Best Udder, she went on to be part of our first place Best Three Females, and Best Dairy Herd entries. I love her general appearance, with that long lean neck, blending into her withers, and a great topline. Her front legs are set right under her shoulders, she has increasing depth and width of barrel, and her back legs are angular with good width between the hocks. Her udder is capacious and well attached, with soft texture, and large easy to milk teats. She is so feminine and elegant, but clearly also a powerful doe without being course.

Flash was killed by a coyote in February 2018 just a few days before she was due to kid for the first time since 2015. Of all the goats on our farm the coyote could have picked, it could have been literally anyone else and it would not have been as devastating. There are so many things to say, but that would be an essay that would take up way more than anyone wants to read here. There's a huge hole in our herd as we were counting on her genetics to help carry the herd forward, and to lose that opportunity so unexpectedly has me reeling a bit.

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon ++B *S
(Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce ++B +*S x MCH-SGCH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D )
Dam: GCH CRF Castle Rock Siren Song 3*M 3*D VEEE 90
(Dragonfly Odysseus x ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine 2*M 2*D)

Another daughter of Harvey with smoothness of blending, a level topline, and angularity. She has short strong pasterns and depth of heel, straight front legs, a wide, flat rump and good brisquet extension. During our 2012 Linear Appraisal, she got very strong scores in dairyness, rump angle, foreudder attachment, and rear udder height. She has very soft udder texture, and even though her teats could be larger, her orifices are very open, and she milks down really well. I would like to see her tighter in the toes and her teats placed a bit closer to her MSL. I can't believe how much udder capacity she has for such a little thing too. She's one of the friendliest of our friendly does, and usually has a much more pleasant expression on her face, but was not happy that even though she was standing still, I was not giving her constant wither scratches.

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Mr. Lincoln
(Woodhaven Farms Latigo +S x TX TwinCreeks WDF Sunsprite)
Dam: SGCH Algedi Farm H Purple Rain 4*M 4*D VVEE 90
(Rosasharn's UMT Hamachi *B x CH Rosasharn's TL Zenith 3*M 3*D EEVE)

Raspberry is a tightly put together doe, who is very upstanding at the withers, and has such upright pasturns that she looks like she is walking on tip toes. She combines many very strong features- a wide, flat rump, good spring of rib, strong general appearance, lots of width between the hocks, and angularity. She has a high rear udder held in place by a strong MSL with strong lateral and foreudder attachment, and our most recent appraiser said Raspberry had one of the best udders she had seen in the breed.

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Sire: Castle Rock Tanzanite *S
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S x SGCH Algedi Farm H Purple Rain 4*M 4*D VVEE 90)
Dam: GCH/ARMCH Castle Rock Sweet Heart 2*M 6*D
(Castle Rock Harvest Moon *S x GCH/ARMCH Algedi Farm S Honey Heart 1*M 5*D)

Sweet N Low looks a good deal like her paternal half sister Flash Flood. Sweet N Low is not quite as long as her sister, but other wise shows the same width and depth throughout. I appreciate her straight front legs, and the impressive depth of body and udder capacity she is showing us as a first freshener. Her udder is incredibly soft and pliable, which is always good when you have so much milk to get out of it. Sweet N Low currently resides with the good people at 3G Family Farm.

Sire: CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon *S
(Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce ++B +*S x MCH-SGCH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D )
Dam: SGCH CRF Castle Rock Penny Wise 1*M 3*D VVEE 90
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +B +S x Castle Rock Money Penny 2*D)

Lula is a very stretchy, elegant, dairy doe who stands on a strong set of feet and legs. She walks with lots of width between her hocks, has good spring of rib and her soft pliable skin makes it very easy to feel how widely spaced they are. Her udder is wide and capacious with a strong MSL, though her foreudder could be a bit more smoothly blended. I really like her general appearance and dairy character, and she has finished her championship against some very large, competitive classes of does.

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Sire: Castle Rock Cyclone
(BRB Dust In The Wind x SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: GCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Tuscan Sun 1*M *D VEEE 90
(Woodhaven Farm Latigo +S x TX Twin Creeks WDF Sunsprite)

Wildfire is a very dairy, upstanding doe, with tremendous length of body, an excellent shoulder assembly, nice angularity, and elegance. Her udder is well attached, soft, and pliable, with a strong MSL, and plumb teats. Ideally, she could use tighter toes and more depth of heel.

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Sire: Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B +*S
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir ++*B +S x SGCH Algedi Farm H Purple Rain 4*M 4*D VVEE 90)
Dam: SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 3*D VEEE 91
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++*B ++*S x Castle Rock SnowFlurryCeanothus 2*D AR 1988)

I really like Cleveland Sage, but when he was born with a brother, I decided to repeat the breeding in hopes that I would get a doe to retain, and (woot!) here she is. Clover is long bodied, and dairy, with elegance, femeninity, good brisket extension and angularity. Her udder is well attached with an exceptional amount of foreudder extension, a good MSL and teats that are large, plumb, and easy to milk.

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Sire: SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage ++*B *S
(Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B *S x SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: GCH CRF Castle Rock Moon River 2*M 3*D EEEE 91
(Rosasharn's TL Sitka Spruce ++B +*S x SGCH-MCH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 1*M 2*D'VG')

A gorgeous high headed, elegant, deep, wide, long bodied doe with striking blue eyes and lots of dairy character. Her udder is soft, with a strong MSL, very good teat size and placement, with good lateral and rear attachments. The judge who gave her her third leg commented that even though Moon Beam's udder was capacious, she moved around the ring like silk- she has plenty of width in the rear and doesn't have to throw her legs to walk around that udder. She stood second at the National Show to the doe who was the Reserve National Champion, and was one of four does to get pulled out for the Best Udder competition. Like her dam, Moon Beam is quite the ham, though unlike her dam, she mutters under her breath-- I think from trying to solve the mystery of how to fit herself into one of our pockets.

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir ++*B +S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++B ++*S x CH-MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven VEEE 90)
Dam: GCH CRF Castle Rock Snownamie 2*M 4*D VEEE 90
(CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon ++B *S x SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)

This little blue eyed beauty is long bodied, smoothly blended, angular, and so very dairy. I love her flatness of bone, spring of rib, brisket extension, and her high, snuggly attached udder. She's a slow to mature doe, and we'd like to see her fill out a bit more, but our Snownamie daughters have a habit of being well worth the wait. She's generally a quiet doe, though if someone she doesn't like is on the milkstand with her, she makes her displeasure very known. Due both to being slow to mature and to a truncated show schedule the last couple of years, Tsunamie has been in the show ring only as a junior doe.

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Sire: Castle Rock Chicago Peace ++*B
(Copper Penny ROF Calico Jack x GCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Tuscan Sun 1*M *D VEEE 90)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Ghost Pine EEEE 91 3*D
(Rosasharn's TL Sitka Spruce +*S x ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine 2*M 2*D)

Washoe combines really nice general appearance with good dairy character, flat bone, spring of rib, and overall correctness. I was very pleased with how she did on LA, espcially considering she was only two weeks fresh and had been missed when it came to getting the routine selenium supplementation all of our goats must have to look half way decent around here. She has a really nice escucheon arch, with a wide, well attached, easy to milk udder, with plumb teats. She also has excellent front legs, high pasturns, good width and depth of body, with an excellent back.

Sire: Castle Rock Graupel *B
(Castle Rock Cleveland Sage ++*B *S x SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: CH Castle Rock Raspberry Beret VEVE 91
(CRF Castle Rock Mr. Lincoln *S x SGCH Algedi Farm H Purple Rain 4*M 4*D VEEV 90)

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Sire: Castle Rock Black Oak
(Castle Rock Pound Foolish x GCH Castle Rock Sarafina 2*M EEEE 92)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Sun Sapphire 1*M
(CRF Castle Rock Cobalt *S x TX Twin Creeks WDF Sunsprite)

A very dairy little doe, Sunsplash is very much a blend of her dam and paternal granddam. When she and Sarafina end up on the milk stand next to each other, the resemblance is unmistakable. She's a very long, smoothly blended, stylish doe, though being a little on the small side, she hasn't gotten noticed in the show ring as much. She has a very nice udder, with large, well definted teats, a strong MSL, very strong foreudder attachment, and a high rear udder arch. Pictured here as a two year old first freshener.

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Picture courtesy of Curbstone Valley Farm

Sire: SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage +*B *S
(Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B *S x SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Snownamie 4*D VEEE 90
(Castle Rock Harvest Moon ++*S x SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)

Vortex is a doe with lots of dairy character- flatness of bone, thin dairy skin, depth of body, and a capacious, easy to milk udder. I like her width of muzzle, depth of body, brisket extension, udder capacity, strong MSL, and excellent texture. Keeping weight on her has been a little more challenging than it is for most of our herd (we usually have issues with over conditioning rather than under), which was true of our LA session in 2019, when the appraiser said it affected her general appearance, giving her a lower score than she probably would have gotten otherwise. Our temperatures have been a roller coaster this spring, so we didn't get to see what was going on under all that hair of hers until the day before our session. Oh well- if there's something we've proven over and over, we can get more condition on anyone- even ourselves! We brought her condition up in time for the National Show, where she was in first place for her class until the very last minute when she and the third place doe flipped places, and went on to be an important part of our first place wins in the group classes. She has a quiet rolling bleat and talks to me almost all of the time when I am within view, which is so very endearing.

Sire: SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage ++*B *S
(Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B*S x SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: GCH CRF Castle Rock Tesla 2*M 5*D VVEE 89
(Woodhaven Farms Latigo x SG-ARMCH Lost Valley TB Infinity 4*D)

Nice, smoothly blended doe with good brisket extension, a very good front end assembly, depth of body, and a wide rump with well placed thurls. She has a well attached mammary system, with excellent texture and plumb, easy to milk teats. Mahindra is very likely to be right behind or next to me any time I am in the same pasture she is, and is our self-assigned barnyard-project manager. Mahindra is almost always first or second in her class, and has gotten lots of compliments for her general appearance and udder shape and attachments.

Sire: SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage +*B *S
(Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B*S x SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: GCH CRF Castle Rock Siren Song 3*D VEEE 90
(Dragonfly Odysseus x ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine 2*D)

This is one of those does I decided to keep as soon as she hit the ground. She is very long bodied, with all sorts of dairy strength going on- width, depth, udder capacity, femininity, a long, wide rump and width between the hocks. At her first not-freezing-cold show as a first freshener, she easily finished her permanent championship. She can be a little bit of a ditz when it comes to the milk stand (you do this twice a day, seven days a week-- how can you possibly be confused about where your head goes?!? FYI, into the stancheon, just like all of those other times), but she tries to make up for it by being a heck of a milker, and super sweet. I am so happy to have another Siren daughter in the herd! During our 2019 LA session, I was especially happy with her Excellent scores in the structural categories of head, back, and rump, and a 45 in rear udder arch and MSL.

Sire: SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage ++*B *S
(Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B *S x SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: SGCH Castle Rock Annika 2*M
(Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce +B x GCH CRF Castle Rock Roxanne 1*M VEEE 91)

Nikita is a very nicely put together doe, and a repeat of the breeding that produced big sister SGCH Castle Rock Angelika VVEE 91. This is one of our end of the year bottle babies, who ended up a little on the standoffish side- she never comes up to say hi, but is completely calm and easty to handle when you get her. She shows us dairy character, nice depth and width of body, plenty of width between the hocks, and smoothness of blending. She freshened with a very capacious well attached udder that is butter soft and easy to milk.

Sire: Castle Rock Moonraker ++*B
(SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage +*B x GCH CRF Castle Rock Moon River 2*M EEEE 91)
Dam: SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91
(Lost Valley KW Stetson +B +*S x Castle Rock Snowfluryceanothus 2*D)

Someday, we will get a happy looking picture of Sugar Snow while she is in milk, but that day has not come to us yet, even though she has such a friendly, happy, in-your-face personality. Sugar excells in dairy strength, with depth of barrel from heart girth to flank, fullness in the crops, length of body, and one of those coveted E rumps. She has a good front end assembly with extension of brisket, nice placement of the front legs under the shoulder, and strength of feet and legs, though she can tend towards being shallow in the heel. She walks uphill and easily around a wide, well attatched udder with exceptional lateral attachments. Her escutcheon is high and wide, and her foreudder is smooth. She's a powerful doe who could use a little more elegance, but overall, she's a very nice doe, who is maturing as we expected.

Sire: Castle Rock Wild and Crazy Guy
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir ++B x SGCH Castle Rock Wildfire VEEE 90)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Ghost Pine EEEE 91 3*D
(Rosasharn's TL Sitka Spruce +*S x ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine 2*M 2*D)

Hazel is a quiet little doe who looks quite a bit like Easter Bonnet when both of them are unclipped. While she had a tendency to hang back as a junior, being in milk seems to have triggered an insatiable curiousity about everything, which may lend itself to her getting into trouble more than the rest of our milkers combined. She's a very balanced doe, with a pleasing profile, and reminds me a good deal of her dam's dam, Sky. Her udder has a pleasing shape, with a nice MSL, strong attachments, and decent capacity for a first freshening, though we're not thrilled the first freshening is at three years old. Keeping minerals in balance has gotten increasingly challenging over the years for some reason. Could be the years of drought affecting our water supply, could be where hay is coming from as more and more good hay fields are converted to nut orchards, could be feed and mineral companies changing their formulations, or could be something we haven't pinpointed yet. Anyway, we have a few does who are first freshening three year olds, who have freshened very nicely, but are definitely at a disadvantage against other three year olds in the show ring working on their second or third freshenings.

Sire: Castle Rock Triumph *B
(SG Fairlea Barnaby Rudge +*B x GCH AGS CRF Castle Rock Tesla 2*M)
Dam: Castle Rock Sunsplash
(Castle Rock Black Oak x GCH Castle Rock Sun Sapphire 1*M)

There are so many things I appreciate about this doe- she has wonderful dairy character, a wide rump from thurl to thurl, a really good front end, and a well attached udder that is high and wide when viewed from behind. While she is named Sun Maid, after a rose, her color makes me think more of the brand of raisins, which led me to calling her Raisin, which somehow morphed into Rey. Though she has done quite a bit of walking on her back legs and hopping around the show ring, if she manages to stay on all four feet, she shows off how lovely she is and winds up near or at the head of her class. Her second freshening udder is lovely, and she seems to have stretched out even more this year. According to Linear Appraisal, she has an excellent head, back, rump, and udder texture, and I can't argue with any of that. I'm very pleased with how she is maturing and her quiet, sweet personality.

We lost Sunmaid far too early, but have her son, Castle Rock Rainbow Sunblaze, to hopefully continue her legacy in the herd.

Sire: SG Castle Rock Cleveland Sage +*B *S
(Castle Rock Tanzanite +*B*S x SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)
Dam: GCH Castle Rock Snownamie 4*D VEEE 90
(Castle Rock Harvest Moon ++B *S x SGCH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 1*M 3*D VEEE 91)

Haily is one of my smallest milkers, but has a lovely, well attached udder with capacity we are hoping the rest of her grows into. She's definitely an example of needing to be patient and knowing that this set of genes takes a while to come into its own. She has very good body capacity, and an extremely high rear udder with a surprising amount of capacity for a doe this small, and she comes into the milk room every time with a very, very full udder. Despite her small stature, she's done fairly well at the few shows she's gone to, winning her class several times.