Dam: MK Elidah DC (MK Queen Ester x Piddlin Acres Deb's Chocolate)

Sire: Velvet Acres Scandal (Piddlin Acres Chitty Bang Bang x Piddlin Acres Suzuki's Samuri)

D.O.B.  5/13/02

One word sums up this solid black doe - WOW!  She's one of those does that doesn't necessarily catch your eye at first, but once you start looking closely at her, it's hard to find a flaw.  She has nice length of body, super wide ribs, great skin, and just overall wonderful dairy character.  And then there's her mammary system...although still a bit immature, this udder is incredibly attached everywhere with nice long teats that have huge orifices - a dream for milking!  Her rear udder is high, wide and tight.  Her foreudder has nice extension although there is a small shelf present. 

Polly has started this kidding season off by presenting us with a single buckling on Dec. 20, 08.  Of course, it's totally freezing here and we're in between two awful snowstorms.  We're going to let Polly raise her little boy, as we don't have any other babies his age that could keep him warm. 

Dam: MK Elpaal VAS

Sire: Piddlin Acres Suzuki's Sidekick

D.O.B. 2-11-05

Shadow is just that - a shadow of her dam, Polly.  Shadow is a very elegant little girl, and would do well in the show ring if her attitude would improve a little ~.  Shadow kidded with quads - 2 bucks, 2 does, all gorgeous.  Her udder is tightly attached with great texture and nice big, easily-milked teats.  She's really milking well, milking nearly 4 lbs/day - she's a keeper!

As a yearling, Shadow miraculously survived a horrible bout of Entero.  Her body temperature was too cold to even register on the thermometer.  This poor little girl was the sickest I've ever seen in a goat, and still survived the ordeal.  However, that is not to say that there isn't residual damage.  Clostridium will emit neurotoxins, and although she's healthy and happy now, she still has some trouble with coordinating her front legs.  It's probably too noticeable for the show ring, but since she's such a beautiful doe, she can just stay home and be an outstanding brood doe.

Irish Whisper NK Working Girl

Dam: Velvet Acres Centerfold (Inavale Cherokee Maiden x Flat Rocks Flash)

Sire: Gay-Mor's Lucky Northrup King (Twin Creek's Luck of the Draw x Gay-Mor's Krysanthemum)

D.O.B. 5-4-03

Show Record: GCH Sr. x 1 (ADGA leg)

"Wee Gee" has got to be the sweetest dam-raised kid I've ever seen!  She was so incredibly shy at first, and has now blossomed into a very, very sweet little thing.  Aside from her adorable personality, she's an extremely correct doe, and pretty true to the style of kid that King is throwing.    WeeGee has a beautifully attached udder with super soft skin and nicely placed teats.  Her downfall is that she doesn't have a whole lot of capacity.  She kidded this year with a single doe, and that may be part of the problem. 

At Wee Gee's first show (ever), she garnered GCH Sr. doe - and with hardly milk!  She was very, very stressed, and literally didn't eat or drink a thing the whole time we were at the show.  But, luckily the judge could see beyond her lack of milk, and saw what beautiful mammary attachments she has, as well as beautiful conformation.  Udder picture is of Wee Gee's littermate sister, "Bunny".

Irish Whisper Calendar Girl

Dam: Irish Whisper Workin' Girl

Sire: Velvet Acres Flash JackDaniels

D.O.B. 3- -06

Callie is structurally very correct, and has quite a bit of depth of body.   We feel that she has tremendous potential in the mammary department, given who her parents are.  Their dam, Workin' Girl, has an incredible mammary system that is just loaded with attachment, and their sire, J.D., has been throwing beautiful udders.  

Callie's first freshening udder was super tiny but looked to be well attached.  We're going to give Callie another year to see what she can do.   Update:  Callie freshened with a single kid, and has gain some capacity.  She still needs more capacity to be competitive, so hopefully she'll kid with more than just one baby next time!

Tootsie, as an adult; Tootsie as a baby...

Dam: Sugar Creek Red Sky at Night

Sire: Caesar's Villa STS Gun Slinger

D.O.B. 4-28-05

Well, Tootsie.  She's just a bit spoiled, and certainly much larger than her kid photo above.  Tootsie is a very big improvement over her dam in many areas - overall udder attachment and especially in the front end assembly.  But, like her dam, she is quite the easy-keeper.  Her udder is tightly attached with beautiful texture and nice, plumb teats.  I'd like to see her teats a bit larger, but I'm spoiled by the large teats of the other does.  She's still quite easy to milk, and can't forget what a character she is!  We're retaining her little doe, "Circus Freak" who is linebred on Gun Slinger.

Dam: Irish Whisper JM Peekaboo *D

Sire: Irish Whisper JS Sweet Success

D.O.B. 11-21-03

Well, Patticake has some issues....  She was a single kid born to Peek-a-boo and was still somehow so twisted up that neither goat barely survived the kidding.  Patticake incurred a broken rear leg during the whole ordeal, and although it was immediately splinted by the vet - and is now fully healed - she refuses to use it while walking.  She'll use it to scratch her ears and to occasionally balance herself, but that's it.  She's got some psychological issues concerning the whole leg.  Plus, she lived in the house with me over the winter so she's now got some serious issues being a goat.  Poor little thing.... :o(   But, I just love this little doe - if it wasn't for that rear leg, she'd be one of my top show prospects.  She's got tremendous length and depth of body, and just oozes dairy character.  Plus, her mom made Top Ten as a yearling doe, so the genetics are awesome as well.

I should mention that in the udder picture, Patticake was NOT bagged.  That particular day was the day after one of her kids was sold, so she was only nursing one.   Still, and although I'm biased, I think her udder is just beautiful!  Patticake is, and continues to be, my very best brood doe!

Rosie, left; Rosie and Ginger, right

Irish Whisper RingAround Rosie 3*D

Dam: Irish Whisper JS Patticake

Sire:  Twin Creek's KM Jupiter's Moon

D.O.B.

Rosie is one of quads born to Patticake in 2006.  She looks quite a bit like Patticake, both in coloring and in conformation, although I think she may be a little longer bodied than Patticake.  Rosie is the product of a tight linebreeding and we're really hoping for some serious mammary genetics!  Like her mother, Rosie is a very easy keeper, and tends to gain weight easily. 

Update:  Rosie has turned out to be quite the little dairy doe!  She's milked off all of her 'baby-fat' and is looking beautiful.  Additionally, she's milking well and has a beautiful mammary system.  She's definitely on our show string!

Irish Whisper Fancy Ginger

Dam: Gay-Mor's RA Wood Nymph ("Fancy", now living across the Rainbow Bridge)

Sire: Velvet Acres Flash JackDaniels

D.O.B. 5/9/06

What stands out most about Ginger are her big, beautiful eyes, so reminiscent of her mother's expressive eyes.  But, she's also got her mom's wonderful personality and calm, entertaining disposition.  Ginger is now even more special to us since the untimely, tragic loss of her dam.  Although we've got very high hopes for Ginger, she will always remain with us no matter how she turns out.  Ginger's 2nd freshening udder remains very tightly attached, but with not as much capacity as we had hoped.  Her udder is somewhat deceiving, however, since she milks completely down.  We're hoping that more maturity will bring added capacity - the only thing needed to make her perfect!

Dam: Sugar Creek Sandflea

Sire: 4 Fun Gay-Mor Pot-O-Gold

D.O.B. 3-  -05

I bought Leda based solely on the consistency of her sire, "Indy".  So far, Indy has produced some exceptional kids, and those that have freshened have had superb mammary systems.  Added to that are the wonderful qualities that her dam exhibits, so we figured we couldn't go wrong.  We're so happy to have our "Li'l Loleda"!

Leda has freshened with a small, but glued-on first udder.  She also has beautifully shaped, plumb teats that are easy to milk.  Leda remains a very easy keeper, and here that means 'fat'... <g>, but we still think she has a lot to offer.