Castle Rock Farm Senior Does

CRF Castle Rock Bayberry 2*D AR2451
DOB 6/27/7 height 21" at 3 years
4x 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.
Bayberry is out on lease for most of 2011, so was not on the farm for this year's linear appraisal.
DHIA:

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

2.08 305 804 49 6.1 34 4.3

3.07 305 714 48 6.7 33 4.6

CRF Castle Rock Skyrocket Gilia
DOB 1/27/8
1x RGCH Jr., 1xGCH Jr.
2010 LA: A+VV 82
2011 LA: V+VV 86

Sire: Woodhaven Farms Latigo +S
(Woodhaven Farms TKO +S x Woodhaven Farms Shaula Parker)
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')

Lia certainly appears to take after her Aunt Cali- I can't believe how much they look alike. Lia has been little Ms. Personality from day one, so how could I not keep her? She's a very nicely balanced doe, with a level topline, a very nice set of straight legs, and smoothness of blending. She has a very strong foreudder, a high rear udder, and good udder depth, although not as strong of an MSL as her dam (admittedly, a high bar to judge by), and she could use more dairy character.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
2.02	257	394	25	6.5	17	4.3
3.00	308	688	50	7.3	32	4.7

CRF Castle Rock Honey Child 6*D AR2455
DOB 2/1/8
2 x RGCH Jr.
2011 LA: ++VV 84

Sire: Woodhaven Farms Latigo +S
(Woodhaven Farms TKO +S x Woodhaven Farms Shaula Parker)
Dam: ARMCH-CH Algedi Farm S Honey Heart 5*D
(Kaapio Acre's KK Sultan *S x CH Rosasharn's UMT Tupelo Honey 4*D)

Those of you from the South will probably recognize the correct pronunciation of this doe's name (Honey Chy-ile) with the appropriate silent "d". She is a stylish little doe who has done fairly well in limited showings. She is a very stretchy doe with a long elegant neck, a nice front end assembly, good angularity, and nice sweep and spring to her ribs. I am pleased with the area of attachment that her udder has, rear udder height, and soft texture, though I would like to see a more well defined MSL, better teat placement, and more arch to the escutcheon.

Honey Child had freshened just a week before linear appraisal, so because her ligaments were still soft from the hormones associated with kidding, our appraiser excused her from the session.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
2.04	227	525	35	6.7	25	4.8
3.00	148	384	24	6.3	17	4.4

CRF Castle Rock Roxanne *D AR2461
DOB 3/29/8 height 20 1/4" at 2 years
1 x RGCH, 1 x Best Udder
2010 LA: ++VV 86
2011 LA: V+VV 87

Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay +*S x MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven)
Dam: 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. She has soft udder texture, good teat placement and size, a strong foreudder, and is very easy to hand milk. Her maternal side tends to have exceptionally small first freshening udders, so I'm definitely looking forward to seeing future freshenings.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
1.11	317	457	30	6.6	21	4.6
2.10	306	596	43	7.2	29	4.9

CRF Castle Rock Brie 2*D AR2453
DOB 3/31/8 height 21" at 3 years
2010 LA: VV++ 85
2011 LA: V+VV 86

Sire: CRF Castle Rock Guy Noir +S
(Twin Creeks BW Montego Bay ++*S x MCH-PGCH Cloverdale YJ Blue Raven)
Dam: CRF Castle Rock Mouzza *D
(Buttin'Heads Sharp No.2 Pencil x Shooting Star Feta)

Brie's dam, Mouzza, is the niece of our doe Sara, whose bloodlines seem to combine very well with Montego Bay genetics. Brie looks like a rather unassuming doe, but her dam was a slow to mature doe who finally hit her stride as a three year old. On linear appraisal, she scored very strongly in dairyness, foreudder attachment, rear udder height, and excellent on udder texture. One of our friendliest, if you find yourself at our farm under a furry black and white attention-seeking-missile, there's a 50-50 chance that it is either our Border Collie or Brie.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
1.11	288	452	30	6.9	20	4.6
2.11	124	375	23	6.1	16	4.3

CRF Castle Rock Scarlet Flax 2*D AR2462
DOB 4/1/8 height 20 1/2" at 2 years
2010 LA:++VV 86

Sire: Fairlea Barnaby Rudge *S
(Rosasharns Julius *S x ARMCH Fairlea Gretchen 2*D E)
Dam: ARMCH/CH/PGCH Esperanza WS Sara *D'VG'
(MCH/PGCH Ponders End MTB Wall Street x Esperanza ZZ Sedona Snowstorm)

Scarlet seems to be built much like her dam, Sara. She has really flat bone, a tight front end assembly, strong pasturns, angularity and an exceptionally wide rump. I could wish for an extra couple of inches of lenth of body, but that didn't seem to hold Sara back, and I doubt it will hold back Scarlet either. She did hunch her neck down while we were taking pictures, so she does not look very well blended, but if someone is not trying to set her up, she is smoothly blended, and is very level while on the move. Scarlet had our strongest score on rear udder height on linear appraisal in 2010, and scored very well on dairyness, udder depth, and foreudder attachment.

DHIA:

Age	DIM	#s Milk	#s BF	% BF	#s Protein	% Protein
1.10	295	457	29	6.4	20	4.4
2.10	304	490	38	7.8	24	4.9

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