Castle Rock Farm Senior Does

TX Twin Creeks WDF Sunsprite
DOB 3/18/5 height 21 1/2"
2x RGCH Jr., 2x RCGH Sr, 1x GCHSr., 1x BOB
LA: VVVV 87

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.

CRF Castle Rock Mouzza *D
DOB 7/5/05
1xCH Dry Doe
LA: VVVV 88

Sire: Buttin'Heads Sharp No.2 Pencil
(Sugar Creek's Sharp Shooter *S x Buttin'Heads Polished Apple)
Dam: Shooting Star Feta
(Woodhaven Farms Buck Owens x Esperanza ZZ Sedona Snowstorm)

Mouzza is one of the few Pencil doe kids born into our herd, so we're happy to have her. Her second freshening udder has really nice shape, very good teat size, a strong medial, and very good capacity. When she runs to the milking room (and most days she's more than happy to try to get to that milking stand several times a morning), her plentiful side attachments are quite visible. She is very smoothly blended, has very nice length of body, is very level from thurl to thurl, and has a nice long, wide (6 inch!) rump. I'm so used to seeing her with her beard that it took me a few days to adjust to her "new" clean-shaven look.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
4.08	90	186	12	6.5	8	4.3

CRF Castle Rock Arroyo Lupine 3*D
DOB 4/13/7 height 21" at 3 years
2008 LA: VVVV 87
2010 LA: V+E+ 85

Sire: Rosasharn HB Mithrandir *S
(Rosasharn TF Honey Bear*S x ARMCH/GCH Rosasharn's TL Arwen 8*D 2*M E AR1809)
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')

Lupe was one of quads, and insisted on being a bottle baby from the beginning. Her first time out in the show ring as a senior doe reminded me of why I try to drag a few juniors to shows every year- this not-shown-as-a-junior acted like a four month old doe, hoping, leaping and spinning her way through the class. Sigh. She is showing improved dairy character over her dam, good angularity, refinement, and a nicely shaped udder. She is refined while still posessing strength, and has good depth and width. When we did one-day test at the National Show, Lupe was just barely over one month fresh, and came up just a half point short of getting her milking star- had she been in milk for nine additional days, she would have gotten it, but we were able to get her one day star as a second freshener.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
2.07	124	342	22	6.3	15	4.4

CRF Castle Rock Bayberry 2*D
DOB 6/27/7 height 21" at 3 years
3x RGCH, 1x BU 2010 LA: V+EE 88
Sire: Lost Valley KW Stetson +*S
(Gay-Mor's RA Kingwood +*S x Hill Country's Like A Phenomenon 2*D)
Dam: CRF Castle Rock Bay Laurel *D
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay +*S x Piddlin Acres Liebshen)
Bayberry has been a bit of a pleasant surprise. She is one of those does who was born late in my kidding season, which usually means that she could have turned into a spoiled bottle baby or a semi-feral dam raised kid. She fell into the dam-raised category, but much to my surprise, has completely changed personality since kidding, and has become a big lap goat. Under all of her baby hair was a very elegant, sharp dairy doe. I knew she had a well shaped mammary, with a strong foreudder, good rear udder height, and excellent texture, but was still pleasantly surprised when she earned an Excellent on mammary during linear appraisal. I probably haven't been giving this doe enough credit for all that she is, and will be trying to get her out into the show ring a bit more this year.
DHIA:

Age DIM #s Milk #s BF % BF #s Protein % Protein

2.08 106 321 19 5.9 13 4.1

Sarah Hawkins and Andy Pestana
7547 English Hills Road
Vacaville, CA 95688
707-448-4655
castlerocknigerians@yahoo.com