04/17/13, 03:44 PM
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Ages Ago Acres Nubians
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: MO Ozarks
Posts: 2,603
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Living this close to Joan... we've had the chance to spend LOTS of time talking pedigrees over the last few years (talk to her about every other day, now adays.. She *retired* back during the summer...BUT.. is already semi-un-retired LOL.. got one of her Lamancha does back (getting another one soon).. I gave her a black nubian doeling (that is now spoiled rotten LOL)... it's been so fun hearing about all those goats that were just names and sometimes pictures.. (I **LOVE** pedigrees.. spend lots of time researching ect).. tales of Joan and Marvin's owner Barbara Thrasher adventures together.. so much fun.. I have had the pleasure of owning/owned 5 different Amberwood does and 4 or 5 bucks that carry her herd name.. Have 2 yearling bucks now and a older doe.. bred a doe that was out of my first Amberwood doe Shelly, to a Amberwood son (whose grandsire was also Amerwood.. Amberwood Jedi Winter Frost)..kept a doeling from that breeding.. she looks EXACTLY like her grand dam Amberwood Thor's Sheleen.. except instead of being brown.. she's black with lots of white...
I love the size, the temparment and especially the extended fore udders I get with the Amberwood lines.. (most of my herd has Jedi Winter Frost .. he has always, been my buck of choice when searching for kids to add to the herd)...Most of the Copper-Hill goes back to Jedi Winter Frost or Amberwood Jack Frost Northwind.... So many lines go back to Marvin.. Pruittville doesn't have much (they go back to Price-O-The-Field which didn't really use Marvin..neither did Brown Sugar's Crown Ambassador.. who Kastdemur's bred off of.. (I actually like the way those two lines blend with my old lines.. haven't had as good of luck mixing Price-o-the-Field into my lines) I know there is always talk of Marvin anytime someone mentions G6S.. BUT.. I will say I have NEVER had a heavy Marvin lined nubian come back as even a carrier.. everyone has tested normal.. so who knows what lines to really be leery of.. (I think the thing to do is TEST them ALL.. if everyone did, G6S would soon become a thing of our past)...
again, I think she's a nice little doe.. hopefully you can get her up to size (just weighed my six week old kids this morning for their baycox.. they are all 28-32lbs.. so 70lbs as a yearling is light!!)
susie
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I like that little doe. She is small but the genetics are still there. I think she is a pretty little thing. I think her rump will also level out more with age.
