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I just received our current DHI does sheets. I am quite pleased with this year's lactations. Most does are close to their complete lactation. It was interesting to see some differences in lactation curves and total production without the stress of showing and traveling. Current lactations: 2+Lactations: Abbey 5-10 312 3220 4.22% 136 2.83% 91IP Mint 5-00 265 2761 2.9% 80 3.37% 93 Lights 4-01 249 3060 3.3% 101 2.88% 88 IP Carrot 2-00 283 3248 3.08% 100 2.9% 94 IP Pepper 1-11 309 3580 2.93% 105 3.46 124 IP 1st Lactation: Vogue 1-11 303 2782 4.92% 137 3.06% 85 IP Tualatin 2-00 291 2846 3.41% 97 3.13% 89 IP Hazie 1-10 290 1814 3.20% 58 3.31% 60 Birdie 1-00 297 2200 4.14% 91 2.91% 64 IP Fennel 1-00 247 1472 3.33% 49 3.33% 49

💚💚 Voguey💚💚 Goat-San En Vogue Voguey is a most interesting creature. I immensely enjoy just watching her in the barn. She is elegant like a deer and her personality matches. She's not a huge human fan, and tends to have more flight than fight in her. So refreshing for a Lamancha! 😂 Current lactation 1-11 278 2635 5.01% 132 3.00% 79 Vogue is bred to Goat-San BP Jack Herer

💚💚 Abbey💚💚 GCH Goat-San Abbey Road 5-01 EX90 VVEE After going to Every. Single. Show. For 5 years Abbey has been enjoying the slow life of 2020. She didn't even have to get clipped for a photo. Her shag is so long it gets caught in the inflations 😂. Abbey is a special girl and a great no muss, no fuss dairy goat. Current lactation 5-10 287 3065 4.18% 128 2.81% 86 Abbey is bred to Argonne's Good Bye Earl.

Catching up on hoof trimming this weekend. Here's how I do it! This doe hadn't been trimmed since July so I was able to be pretty aggressive.

Breeding season is complete barring any recycles. Here's how things shook out. Bucks Goat-San Fenugreek - https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=E002110130 Argonne's Good Bye Earl - https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002095857 Goat-San Viareggio - https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002134211 Goat-San Creme de la Creme - https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002134209 Goat-San BP Jack Herer- https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002134207 GCH Goat-San Abbey Road x Earl GCH Goat-San Chocolate Mint x *B Kastdemur's Louis Vuitton ( https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002088270 ) GCH Goat-San Northern Lights x Earl Goat-San Carrot Cake x *B Kastdemur's Vicco ( https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001851532 ) Goat-San Pepper Mint x Viareggio Goat-San Tangerine Haze x Creme Goat-San En Vogue x Jack Herer Goat-San Tualatin x Earl Goat-San Blackbird x Viareggio Goat-San Fennel x Creme Goat-San Khaos x Earl Goat-San Rogue River x Jack Goat-San Lady Madonna (Abbey x Fenugreek) x Jack Goat-San Zkittlez (Porcelina x Beowulf) x Goat-San My Excellence Ford Goat-San Tarragon (Mint x Ford) x Creme Goat-San Stayton (Tualatin x M*L Scotch on the Rocks) x Fenugreek Goat-San Estacada (Tualatin x Scotch) x Earl Goat-San Creme Brulee (Carrot x Bachelor) x Fenugreek Goat-San 5 Spice (All Spice x Ford) x Moonshine-Ridge CB Beowulf ( https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001854779 ) Goat-San Tumeric (All Spice x Ford) x Earl

GCH Goat-San Northern Lights 3-03 EX92 Pictured in 2020 as a 4y.o. 4th freshener. 1st/1U 2019 National Show 2019 National Show Reserve Best Udder 💚💚💚🔥🔥🔥💚💚💚 RU pic in comments.

💚"The Goddess and her mongrel hoard 💚 For a smile in these stressful confusing time

Sr. Herdsire seeks new girlfriends Mint*Leaf Scotch on the Rocks. Single black and tan young stud seeks like minded partners. Strong and stout. Likes long tall does. Adores testing all fencing for soundness. Excellent climber. Has children from previous relationships. Paternal brother to 2016 Lamancha Miss America. PM for more details. Located in Ukiah CA. Delivery within 3 hours possible. https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001928404

#manchamonday Last week we featured our cutest yearling milker. Today we feature our most sassy yearling milker. Meet: Goat-San Fennel Fennel is a super stylish doe like her mama with a really well attached mammary. She developed a precocious udder as a kid, and has some abnormal tissue in her medial cleft and rear udder. We are working to see if we can get it to resolve as we see great potential for her. Until we see some improvement and how she freshens as a second freshener no kids will be available from her. But enjoy the view! https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002046230

Two Year Old Tuesday! We finally have had a chance to ,get all FIVE of our two year olds #AllDressedUpwithNowheretoGo. And had a chance to spend some quality time thinking about strengths, weaknesses, reasons to stay, reasons to go, and I STILL can't find a place that I want to give. In reality I shouldn't keep all five for my own sanity. But because I'm so stuck... I want to hear from you!! Give us your thoughts about the does! Positives, negatives.... And maybe a final ranking 1-5. Be honest. You can't hurt my feelings. I know all their good and bad. Intimately. 😅 And if one catches your fancy and you feel like you just have to have her I'm open to serious negotiations. All of these does are available and none of these does are available 😂🤷🤦. Convince me! Information on each doe is under their photo. Let's have some fun! #feelingfun, #youcanthurtmyfeelings

Meet our cutest yearling milker! Goat-San Blackbird https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L002028371 Birdie is another Beowulf daughter with an impressive mammary system. She is immature, but that is something we don't mind in our younger does. We are excited to see her mature!

For Mancha Monday we are featuring our two daughters from our Senior Herd Sire *B Goat-San Mount Bachelor. The Bachelor daughters are feminine and elegant, but immature. Rear udders in comments. Goat-San Pepper Mint - 2yo, 2nd lactation https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001954388 Pepper has matured a lot from a yearling. But still has lots of room to grow. We love her strong front end, beautiful globular udder shape and high wide rear. A big improvement in production over her mother her last test was 14lbs. Goat-San En Vogue - 2yo 1st lactation https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001954387 Vogue has been a favorite of mine since she was born. She's been through lots of akward growing stages and is still very very immature. She has been on and off the sale list this year several times. But there is something that intrigues me about her. She is long like a giraffe, has a sound well attached udder, and it's milking steady around 10 lbs. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

It has been a quiet spring and early summer here at Goat-San. With no shows to attend I have been focusing on farm improvements and enjoying and enriching the lives of our two legged children. To be quite honest it's been refreshing and enjoyable to be home more, not so exhausted from weekends of showing and I certainly don't mind not having to clip clip clip! That being said I am SLOWLY starting to clip up some of the does and get pictures to document their 2020 lactations. The first doe we are documenting is Goat-San Carrot Cake https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001954386 Carrot is a second freshening 2 year old. Last year she was 2nd/1U yearling at the National Show and we are quite pleased with how she has matured with a second freshening. She is not the biggest longest doe, but she is very well balanced being correct, dairy, deep and with tremendous area of udder attachment. She's working hard this year with her first two tests being 14.1 and 13.9. Carrot's 2020 buck is available! Msg if you are interested. Here is his planned pedigree.https://www.adgagenetics.org/PlannedPedigreePrint.aspx?SireNum=L001875177&DamNum=L001954386

Two FF two year olds looking for greener pastures. PM for the nitty gritty details, but please read the entire post, it answers most questions. SERIOUS inquiries only. Preference given to homes using performance programs. I reserve the right to refuse a sale if it's not what I feel is the right fit. Located in Ukiah CA. Buyer to arrange transport. I can deliver South on 101 to Sonoma and Marin County and East to I5 around Williams. First, these are very good goats that I wish I could keep, but I have six two year olds, so something has to give. That being said these are the 4th, and 6th best ones in my opinion, so they certainly come with flaws. Velletri is the lowest goat in the pecking order and could use a small herd setting. Tualatin is a boss goat. Below are descriptions of each doe and pictures. Milk volume and body condition are based on my herd management and are not guaranteed once established in a new herd. Goat-San Velletri (Cham) https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001954393 - Velletri has a beautiful udder. It is very globular with a strong medial, a high wide rear and beautiful texture. She is very correct in her front end has a beautiful rump and good legs. She is dairy and milking about 12 pounds per day. She is the lowest in the pecking order and gets beat up a lot. her weaknesses are that she is smallish, and slight in her bone and has the immature body style. She has a slight roach to her loin, but when "shown" with a collar it is less prominent. She also can be a little soft on her rear pasterns. Goat-San Tualatin (dark sundgau) https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001954389 - Tua is a very large framed long bodied impressive doe. She has lovely general appearance. She is dairy and capacious. She is milking between 11-12 pounds a day. Her weakness is her udder. While well attached and capacious she could be slightly higher in the rear and longer in the fore. She also has differences in the length of the fore between sides.

I was moved to tears to find this in my mailbox yesterday. Such a wonderful special gift. I'm glad that my story of Porcelina touched so many and I'm so thankful for the compassionate goat friends in my life. Thank you Laura Boswell!

This is not a sad post or a post about loss. In this time of uncertainty and in a world changed, this is a post of perseverance, dedication and love. GCH Goat-San Porcelina EX93 2013-2020 Porcelina's story started at my in-laws place in Santa Rosa. It was the first year we had moved away from Redwood Hill Farm to start our own farming adventure. She was born in the first kid crop. She was a very non descript baby, and I only kept her because I lost her dam in the Fall of 2013 after a pretty nice yearling debut. Porcelina kidded as a yearling and was awkward and gawky but had a lovely shape to a capacious mammary. I was fortunate to have my appraiser mentor score my goats that year and he commented about her being one to watch out for in a few years…I was skeptical, but filed his comment away in my brain. As a two year old she really developed more body and you could start to really see the potential. Still I wasn't totally convinced and as a way to help fund my trip to the 2015 Nationals I put her up for sale. I'll never forget or live down when Kristie Millson said "ok I'll take her"... And I promptly burst into tears and couldn't do it, feeling totally mortified. The next three years were the true emergence of the butterfly from the cocoon. Each year there was dramatic improvement and my favorite thing was through it all she never wavered in her will to milk and good dairy temperament. I don't want to talk about her accolades because they were just cherries on top of being able to just watch her in my barn every day. But there were plenty. What I really want to talk about is the last 2 years… In the spring of 2019 with about 3 weeks to go in her pregnancy she came up lame one day. By the time she was near kidding she it was very apparent that she had injured her stifle/cruciate ligament. She was very lame and could hardly put any weight on her rear leg. Having seen this same injury before I knew immediately her show career was over, but that she had a chance to be sound enough to breed again. I dried her off and she spent the summer healing. It appeared that everything was looking good in the fall. She had a slight limp still, but was active and climbing up and down the pasture hill and frolicking about. I knew there was some risk, but felt confident breeding her as my other doe with the same injury had bred and kidded fine. All was well until the end of her third month of gestation, all of a sudden one day she was lame on both her rear again and had nerve issues with one of her front legs. I think she must have gotten slammed or something. She couldn't stand up without help and even standing was a challenge. I felt hopeless and awful and immediately started to think I needed to euthanize her. The only thing that stopped me was that she was carrying a healthy pregnancy. I had only euthanized one other doe carrying a healthy pregnancy before and when I laid my hand on that doe as she slipped away and felt the kicks of the kids as they fought to live, it was the most awful sick feeling ever. One that I never want to feel again. So I made the decision to nurse Porcelina along as long as I could and as long as she could hold onto her pregnancy. In the beginning she could stand with assistance, so twice daily I would help her get up and shuffle around. The nerve issues with her front leg resolved for a while which helped. But she really could only just stand for a little bit then go back down. I had a commitment that required me to be gone for 4 full days when she was about 4 months along. I was nervous and feeling sick about it. I am so thankful for Alaina Morse and Teri Crowhurst for nursing her those days while I was gone. Goat friends are the best and understand the love and nurturing it takes. Just after I returned she started to get heavy in her pregnancy and she could no longer stand at all. Twice a day I would move her to a clean dry spot. I brought her extra treats and she had a buffet of goodies and hay in front of her all the time. I would sit with her and love on her. For 4 full weeks together we grew her babies with determination and grit. She put all the energy she had left into it. I knew I was asking a lot of her, but she never wavered in her lifted spirit and focus on what she needed to do. I deviated from my normal "no special treatment" management style and allowed myself to fret and fuss and spend way to much valuable time attending to her and giving her support and love. With all the atrophy to her pelvis and hind end I knew she probably couldn't kid normally. I scheduled a terminal c section for 147 days. On 3/19 my dad and I loaded her into the trailer and off we went to Davis. After 2 months of vigilance and dedication from both of us. I got to hold her and we removed 2 perfect kids. A buck and a doe just as ordered and so special. Then with so much love and gratitude we helped her to pass into the next life. She was a one of a kind cross eyed (yes, literally 😆) queen. She was the best goat I've ever bred. She accomplished everything I asked of her and while I'm sad I only had 7 years with her I'll look back at all of them with love and a smile on my face.

2020 marks 14 years since the inception of Goat-San Dairy Goats. We start the new decade feeling thankful for all the memories, while looking forward to what lies ahead. To start the New Year we wanted to highlight some of our highest achievements. In the past 14 years we have been lucky to attend 6 National Shows and enjoy some sweet sucesses. 2007 - Animals Exhibited 1 GCH Kastdemur's Love Me Dew - 1st Sr. Yearling - Junior National Champion 2009 - Animals Exhibited 4 GCH Companeros Cassius Mon Amie - 1st RG Yearling Milker SGCH Blue Unicorn Ice Z Velour - 2nd Four Year Old 2010 - Animals Exhibited 1 GCH Kastdemur's Love Me Dew - 2nd Four Year Old 2012 - Animals Exhibited 2 GCH Goat-San All Spice - 1st RG Milking Yearling SGCH Goat-San Molalla - 2nd Two Year Old. 2015 - Animals Exhibited - 14 SGCH Goat-San Venice - 1st 3 Year Old - National Champion and Best Udder GCH Goat-San All Spice - 1st RG 4 Year Old - National Champion and Best Udder Goat-San Blue River - 1st Junior Kid - Reserve Junior National Champion. GCH Goat-San Oregano - 1st RG 2 Year Old GCH Goat-San Because of Karen 2nd 3 Year Old +B Autumn Acres My Excellence - Premier Sire 2019 - Animals Exhibited 10 GCH Goat-San Northern Lights - 1st 3 Year Old - Reserve Best Udder GCH Goat-San All Spice - 2nd RG Aged Doe, Total Performer, High lifetime Milk and Fat Goat-San Khaos - 1st Intermediate Kid Goat-San Carrot Cake - 2nd/1st Udder Yearling Milker Reserve Premier Breeder 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

"And that's the way the cookie crumbles". We are done breeding and while we always have a plan, nothing ever ends up exactly as we thought it would. We have waited until all the does are bred to announce our kidding schedule. Does with a * are confirmed bred, does with a ** will only have doe kids available. Thank you for checking out Goat-San! Here are the bucks we used. Goat-San My Excellence Ford https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001744753 Goat-San Mount Bachelor https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001875177 Moonshine-Ridge CB Beowulf https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001854779 Mint*Leaf Scotch on the Rocks https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=L001928404 Starlet Lace Hue Lagoon https://www.adgagenetics.org/PedigreePrint.aspx?RegNumber=E002010882 Goat-San Fenugreek https://www.adgagenetics.org/PlannedPedigreePrint.aspx?SireNum=L001916232&DamNum=E001567957 Breeding list: All does carry the Goat-San herd name GCH All Spice x Ford* SGCH Venice x Scotch* GCH Porcelina x Beowulf* **GCH Abbey Road x Fenugreek* GCH Chocolate Mint x Ford* GCH Northern Lights x Scotch Carrot Cake x Bachelor* Pepper Mint x Beowulf* Tangerine Haze x Ford* Tualatin x Scotch* En Vogue x Scotch* Velletri x Ford* **Blackbird x Fenugreek* **Coffee Cake x Lagoon* **Khimera x Lagoon* **Fennel x Lagoon **Purple Haze x Lagoon **Rogue River x Lagoon

Age progression.