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Reference Goats

These are all animals I have owned but have sold. More reference animals (ones I have NOT owned) are listed in the Reference Goat album on the Facebook farm page.

Reference Bucks

Zachary's Champion Goats Tigger

April 06, 2016
Generation - 2nd
Height - 27"
E E E 86

Tigger was my first Kinder. He is an incredibly good-natured buck, even in rut. The mammary systems and production in his paternal line are excellent. His dam was a correct, prolific doe. Tigger has been slower to grow but has now hit his max size and weight. He has weighed 140lb at 4 and 5 years old. He is correct with a nice topline and very good feet. If I had to pick an area to improve first, I would improve his rear leg angle, just a bit, and quicker growth.

So far, I think he has improved rear udder attachments and straightened teat placement in his daughters. He throws small kids, which has been very helpful when breeding to first fresheners.

In spring 2022, Tigger went to live with a good friend and wonderful Kinder breeder at Dualidad farm! Before he went, he was appraised and appraised very well! The evaluator especially liked his blending.

Derek's Kinders FS Shiner

August 11, 2019
Generation - 5th

VG VG E 74

I am incredibly happy I added Shiner to the herd.

His dam, Sipsy, is one of my very favorite Kinders. She is incredibly prolific - 20 kids in 7 freshenings - and productive. Sipsy has milked over 2000lb on test, according to her breeder. His littermate sister Shimmer is incredibly correct and beautiful. Both have earned show wins, including GC at the Missouri State Fair and have been evaluated as Excellent.

This line has been bred to be efficient for both milk and meat, with close attention to birth weights and growth rates as well as milk production and ease of kidding and milking. All without sacrificing that mid-size and medium bone.

He is standing a little more toed-out than he actually is in this, but that is his biggest, flaw, to me. Interestingly, his hooves are excellent so I can't fault it too much when it doesn't affect function.

Shiner is usually sweet and likes to "chat" when you're around.

Excited to see how he crosses with my does - so far, he has definitely improved growth rates and teat size. He's consistently improved escutcheons, making them high and wide. His daughters and kids in general are pretty distinctive and consistent.

In June 2023, he went back to his breeder! You can see him at Dualidad Farm Caprines on Facebook - he has much better pictures than I do, too!

Derek's Kinders LB Bandito

January 28, 2022
Generation - 3rd

Bandito is a handsome, large buckling out of one of my favorite Kinder does, Bright. Bright is a great example of the a lower generation of the breed, in my opinion. She's a bigger, powerful doe that is easy to milk, according to her breeder, and milked over 9lb as a 4th freshener, with 6% butterfat and 4% protein. For more information on her, check out Dualadid Farm's page on Facebook.

I wanted to bring in a lower generation buck that was mostly unrelated to anything I had. I am hoping Bandito will bring some size and muscling to the herd as well as production! He had a very successful first breeding season - once he stopped being dramatic about leading! He was easy to handle after that, and wasn't deterred by hard-to-catch does.

Bandito is friendly but he also likes to pick fights in the buck pen his first rut season. He also has a shockingly high voice he wants you to hear...a lot...

In 2023, Bandito has mellowed but he is still what I will call extra-vigorous about everything. He handled very nicely all breeding season, though. He maintains his body condition very well, especially considering how much sparring the bucks have done this year.

In 2024, I sold Bandito to a friend in order to keep his son.

Reference Does

Domino

Early 2014
Breed - Nubian Cross

Domino is one of the original three goats of the holler, bought as doeling.

She has kidded with two singles, two sets of twins, and a set of triplets. She is an excellent dam with plenty of milk, though her udder attachments are utterly lacking. I have milked her and was pleasantly surprised with how easily she milked - her teats are a nice size and shape. She is my biggest doe at the moment. Crossed with Tigger, Domino has given me some incredibly chunky meat kids, making her a good brood doe.

Domino is typically NOT an affectionate adult doe - she was clingy as a kid - but she has her moments with people. As far as other goats, everything is generally terrified of her because she is a great big jerk if you are any goat but her baby.

As of 2022, Domino is retired. She can live out her days being a grouchy butt here.

Zachary's Champion Goats Bindi

June 13, 2012

Bindi was one of three doelings in a litter of quadruplets and has been a prolific doe herself, giving birth to triplets three times here and at least once for her breeder.

Bindi is an overall quality doe, though she is not a large doe. I would like to see tighter shoulders but that has proven to be easy to fix in one generation with the right buck. Her rump is a bit steep but wonderfully wide. She's aged quite gracefully - she's shown as an 8 year old in the watermarked side photo and the udder photo, for instance. All photos are from her at 8, 9, or 10 years of age.

She has good udder attachments even with this many freshenings, good teat placement, and is very easy to hand milk...except for the fact that Bindi does NOT like to be milked. She would MUCH rather feed kids. Bindi might get the sillies sometimes, but she's just as likely to walk up and breathe on you politely until you give her some chin and cheek rubs.

Bindi is an excellent dam and very tolerant of the other kids using her as playground. Most nights, you can find her sleeping by her daughter Topaz. I expect she'll remember Patience whenever the doelings are put back in with senior girls.

I decided to breed her one last time and in March '22, she gave me triplet doelings! Because of her age and tendency to get nervous the first couple days, I left only one doeling on her (Patience( and pulled the other two to raise on bottles. Bindi looks great this spring, especially for a doe turning 10! She will live out retirement here with her daughters, granddaughters, great-granddaughters and soon great-great granddaughters!

Hefty Goat Holler Farm Noel

December 18, 2018
Generation - 3rd

Low-Maintenance Wallflower.

Noel was my pick of the 2018 doelings from the start. Her dam and sire blended very nicely! Tigger improved the topline, teat placement, and toeing out.

Noel is a wallflower goat - usually quiet, sometimes friendly for a moment but otherwise content with a short acknowledgment only.
I did find out she bellows like her dam when she's angry about sharing food! Noel gets in there to eat, and she even leads the herd out on occasion.

Noel kidded easily with twins three times while here - Nightingale is from her first freshening. Her udder improved greatly from her first freshening to her second, gaining capacity and and a stronger medial which in turn improved teat placement. I would still like to see larger teat diameter to help with milking ease, but I love how cylindrical they are.

It did take her a couple days to come to her milk the second freshening, but she did and then raised two wethers that were nearly as large as her by sale day. Noel is a calm, careful momma and just a solid, efficient brood doe. Her third freshening, she kidded with lovely buck doe twins sired by Bran. I milked her before she and her family went to her new owner and her milkability had much improved! Stood like a champ, too. Her Shiner daughter Nightingale is still in the herd.

Noel's udder on a little less than a 12 hour fill second freshening. About 6 months fresh. Below is her first freshener udder on about the same fill but just a few months fresh, to illustrate the improvement.

GoGo's LoSt Pixie Dust

April 21, 2019
Generation - F2 Experimental

Quirky and Nosey

Pixie, also known as Pixie-Lou-Who, was an impulse buy when I went to pick out a buckling, but I am glad I got her!

Pixie likes to pick fights but is friendly and somewhere in the middle of the herd hierarchy. She sometimes get the sillies and takes off but it is usually a short-lived phenomenon. Her favorite way to visit is to rub her head on you while you do not touch her.

A daintier, more refined doeling, Pixie has gained depth as she matured. She's long-bodied and still full of dairy character.

Pixie kidded with beautiful buck/doe twins in April 2021. In her first freshening, she was productive with a very nicely-shaped udder. Her udder is soft and, while her teats are a bit smaller, she is easy to milk with a decent-size orifice. Pixie was also an attentive dam, and I am excited to see her freshen again.

In 2023, Pixie kidded with a lovely, large single doeling sired by Jupiter. She completed 5 tests on milk test, peaking at 4.4lb and milking 485lb in 128 days. In June, Pixie went to a lovely new home along with dry yearling Zephyr (Duke X Layla). Her daughter Calypso is still in the herd.

Pixie's udder as first freshener (on the wooden milk stand) and as a second freshener. I wish she would have had twins, but her single was certainly large! Teat size improved and she milked down well. The two photos are from the second milk test and the single rear photo from I believe the 4th test.

Ozark Jewels LAZ Lucky Penny

March 4, 2022

American LaMancha

The Big Girl with the Wattles

While I hadn't planned on adding more standard LaManchas until 2023, well...I did when the opportunity presented itself!

Penny here is out of a productive young Ozark Jewels doe that goes by the barn name of Lucky. Her previous owner reported a still-increasing amount of quart and a half on a 12 hour fill about a month after kidding with twins.

I immediately liked how stocky and growthy Penny is - she already shows good body capacity. She's hip-high right now and a bit steeper-rumped but her rump shows good length and width.

Penny is a personable girl that likes to visit. At first, my smaller doelings had her buffaloed but she's finally figured out her size and likes to throw her weight around. Her voice is comically nasally and she likes to growl sometimes. Penny is a huge fan of feed, too!

Excited to add her to the herd and watch her grow.

2024 - Penny kidded with twin doelings. She's a good momma, if a bit chatty with her funny nasally voice. Her teats are plumb and have more circumference than Nebula's but I dropped the ball on getting a good fresh photo. The udder below is a pre-kidding udder and then one where she's nursing her remaining doeling. I sold Penny with Nebula in a major down-sizing.

Ozark Jewels LAZ Star Rattler

May 18, 2022

Experimental LaMancha

Might be an Alien

Along with Penny, I brought home this lovely girl - she goes by the barn name of Nebula. Nebula is a late kid but likely going to be a big girl. She's already long and tall.

She was described as not wild but "snotty" and that was a good way to put it. Nebula wasn't scared of me, she just didn't want me to touch her. To the point she might give my hand a sniff then jump away all sassy.

Eventually, I won her over with the classic Sneaky Scratch method - she found out people could reach that itchy spot on her withers and booty. She's actually pretty friendly now and has picked up leading quickly.

Like Penny (and Baby), Nebula has a distinctive nasally tone to her voice but she is generally quiet. Her face and elf ears are so incredibly expressive and the ears are courtesy of her 1/32nd Alpine ancestry, according to Ozark Jewels.

I think she's going to grow up to be quite level, like her dam, who showed a lovely first freshening udder. Her dam has won a GC as a first freshener, as well. Overall, just a really fun addition and an exciting girl to make a new mini line with!

2024 - Nebula kidded with buck/doe twins in March. She was the youngest to kid this year (she did not turn 2 until May). She is a good dam and her udder attachments are just lovely. Her ff teats are a little slim but all the parts are there! I sold her along with Penny in a major down-sizing. Her daughter Cassi is still in the herd.

P.S. Her name is a nod to her dam and one of my favorite book series.

Zachary's Champion Goats Topaz

April 13, 2016
Generation - 2nd

Beautiful & Challenging

Topaz is lovely Kinder doe. She is very proportionate and a great example of breed character, in my opinion. This maternal line is not large, but I think they're an efficient size. Topaz stays between 105-115lb when in good condition to a little pudgy.

Topaz is usually the most skittish doe in the herd but she's come a long way! She still occasionally gets the case of the sillies and runs away...but then she might come back and snuffle your face and ask for pets with a nibble. Interestingly, she's mannerly on the milk stand, generally. In terms of pecking order, she's content in the high middle of the herd.

Topaz has a nicely-attached udder, but I would like to see her milk down more and a longer foreudder. Her teats are now, on her fourth freshening, a little past her hocks, making it a bit harder for stubborn newborns to find. Her teats are such a wonderful size and shape for hand milking, though, and boast a great orifice, making her milk out very quickly. She gets 5/5 stars for ease of milking!

In, 2022 - she was milking about a quart at each 12 hour mark at a month fresh. In 2023, she was milking 3lb on no fill with her twin bucklings. At 7 months fresh, she tested at 9% butterfat!

Topaz has kidded easily with twins four times. Overall, she is a good dam but she is very nervous the first few days. Great hooves! Gains back body condition well after nursing. Her paternal granddam is a the beautiful Nubian SGCH Cozy Creek Shay Puddin' EEEE92.

In 2023, Topaz's daughter Hefty Goat Holler Farm Thistle, sired by DKG FS Shiner, took Grand Champion Jr in the Missouri State Fair! She's produced some lovely kids.

Topaz makes you work for her affection but she's a good one.