Sire: CRF Castle Rock Cobalt *S
(CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +S x MCH-CH 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. Upon clipping her baby coat off, I've been pleasantly surprised at how many traits from her paternal granddam she seems to have, especially those short high pasterns, and square front feet.

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Sire: Dragonfly Odyseuss *S
(Rosasharns TL 'Ugene *S x ARMCH Dragonfly Calliope *D E)
Dam: ARMCH Castle Rock Sky Lupine 2*D
(Twin Creeks Rebel W/O A Cause *S x ARMCH/CH/PGCH Esperanza WS Sara *D)

Siren, much like her sisters Lia and Lupe, spent much of her first outting as a junior in the show ring making strong attempts at bipedalism, and did this again as a first freshening two year old. Fortunately, she is getting more used to the show ring, and has managed to win a couple of milking legs. She has freshened with a very capacious udder that has excellent texture (like buttah!), a strong medial, high rear, smooth fore, and plumb teats. She has improved dairy character over her dam, a nice front end assembly, and is deep in the heel with short, high pasturns.

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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: SGCH-ARMCH CRF Castle Rock Alum Root 3*D VEEE 90
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++*S ++B x Castle Rock SnowFlurryCeanothus 2*D AR 1988)

I'm very excited to finally have a freshened daughter of Alum Root in the herd, and that she has some of her dam's best traits. Cora has a very snuggly attached udder with wonderful soft texture, large milkable teats, and a strong MSL- it looks much better in three dimensions than in this rear udder shot. She's very long bodied and elegant, though even with her regular twice a day journey to the milk room, she hasn't gotten any better at being led, so showing her should be interesting.

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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: CH-MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven
(PromisedLand CP Yellow Jacket *S x Pecan Hollow Bonnie Blue'VG')

Finally, a doe kid from Raven! A slow to mature doe, Maggie is still on the small side, but with a big personality- she knows what is expected and "helps" those does who aren't with the program. She walks uphill with sharp withers, straight front legs, and lots of width between the hocks. Her udder is well attached, with a very strong foreudder, good laterals and excellent texture. Her escutcheon is high and wide, allowing plenty of room for her udder to expand in subsequent lactations.

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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 Lost Valley TB Infinity 4*D
(MCH Lost Valley Tae-Bo *S x MCH Lost Valley Mercedes 3*D)

Sire: CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon *S
(Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce *S x MCH-CH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D )
Dam: ARMCH-CH Algedi Farm S Honey Heart 5*D
(Kaapio Acre's KK Sultan *S x SGCH Rosasharn's UMT Tupelo Honey 4*D VVEE)

The beginning of the 2010 kidding season started out very buck-heavy, and I had decided that I'd have to sell Honey Heart's doe kid to fill some reservations. But the longer I looked at this doe, the more I came to realize that I couldn't let her go- she was just too nice to pass up. She's a long stretchy doe who is quite similar to her dam in length of body, softness of udder texture, and flatness of bone. She also has a flat wide rump and the high thurls we are trying to make more common in the Nigerian gene pool.

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Sire: Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay +*S ++*B
(MCH Twin Creeks BH Bay Watch ++*S 'E' x MCH Gay-Mor's JJU Nonpareil 3*D 'E')
Dam: ARMCH/CH/PGCH Esperanza WS Sara *D'VG'
(MCH/PGCH Ponders End MTB Wall Street x Esperanza ZZ Sedona Snowstorm)

Saranade looks quite similar to her dam, and has a personality that has earned her the nickname "Princess"- she knows she's special and takes full advantage of this at every opportunity. She has quite a bit of dairy character, with good sweep to her ribs, a wide rump, flatness of bone, and a tight front end assembly.

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Sire: Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay +*S ++*B
(MCH Twin Creeks BH Bay Watch ++*S 'E' x MCH Gay-Mor's JJU Nonpareil 3*D 'E')
Dam: ARMCH/CH/PGCH Esperanza WS Sara *D'VG'
(MCH/PGCH Ponders End MTB Wall Street x Esperanza ZZ Sedona Snowstorm)

Sarafina reminds me so much of her big sister, MCH CRF Castle Rock Lullaby who resides in the Sly Farms herd. She and Annika tied for the highest "dairyness" score in our herd, and she topped that off with an E for udder texture. She's sharp with flat bone, wide spacing between the ribs. thin dairy skin, angularity, and one of the best (widest, flatest) rumps in our herd. She is a quiet, dignified doe who seems to be the yang to her sister's yin.

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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*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, width between the hocks, a wide level rump with good depth and width of barrel. Her udder is quite soft, with a nice medial, and well placed teats that express easily.

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Sire: CRF Castle Rock Harvest Moon *S
(Rosasharn TL Sitka Spruce *S x MCH-CH Castle Rock Once Ina Blue Moon 2*D )
Dam: CH CRF Castle Rock Blizzard 3*D VEEE 90
(Lost Valley KW Stetson +*S x Castle Rock Snowfluryceanothus 2*D)

Snownami is showing quite a bit of promise with smoothness of blending, length of body, strong scores in dairyness and udder attachment, an excellent head and udder texture. She is not, however, good at standing still for pictures or in the show ring, which is why she looks much steeper in the rump than she is in person. Further freshenings should bring us more depth of barrel and udder capacity which is all I would like to change about her at this point. This blue eyed doe is one of our friendliest girls, and she prefers to follow us to the milk room, rather than run ahead as most of the other does do, wagging her tail all the way and looking quite pleased with herself for having some manners.

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Sire: Dragonfly Odyseuss *S
(Rosasharns TL 'Ugene *S x ARMCH Dragonfly Calliope *D E)
Dam: CH CRF Castle Rock Tesla 5*D
(Woodhaven Farms Latigo x ARMCH Lost Valley TB Infinity 4*D)

Bug is smoothly blended, with thin dairy skin, good udder texture, a strong foreudder, and a very intense desire to be the object of your attention at all times. I'd like to see more udder capacity and I'm hoping to see more length of body as she matures.

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