Udder Up

While visiting with the goats this evening, I was pleased to notice that Flicker, the white/black doe, had developed her udder seemingly all of a sudden. She is normally the most skittish but was wanting to be friendly this evening so we'll be starting to check her more often now and be more observant for signs of labor. Her likely breeding date was around 1/05/2008 or 1/27/2008 so at this point we're assuming she was bred around January 5th and would be due around June 3, 2008. Three more weeks.

Her sire, a 2003 VA State Fair Champion, is of similar mixed coloring but the sire of her kids is all black with a white toupe on his head and the sire's dam is all black. We are hoping Flicker gives us a nice buckling to breed to the 2 white does. If by chance she has twins, a boy and girl combo would be ideal. The farm that she came from carried a lot of black does with brown cashmere.

The 2 white does are twins from a different farm and had a black brown dam with a black maternal line. Their sire is white and has a white sire and a black with light brown dam. The twins' dam, sire, sire's sire, and sire's dam all placed as various champions at ECA shows from 2002-2006. Milly and Molly were both bred to a 2007 VA State Fair Champion that is white with silver grey streaks.

Almost as good as a box of chocolates.