Spotlight Sale Results/2013 ADGA confab

IndyGardenGal · #61 10/24/13, 07:08 PM

I have reservations for two doelings and another reservation on a buckling...possibly one more doeling too.

dozedotz · #62 10/24/13, 07:28 PM

I KNEW IT! lol...unfortunately you are too far away...Doug on the other hand, is really close! Come on Doug...what gals are you depositing on for next spring?? Inquiring minds want to know!!

IndyGardenGal · #63 10/24/13, 07:33 PM

I'll have kids available (hopefully) this spring too...if anyone is interested in a nice kid.

Doug Hodges · #64 10/24/13, 10:36 PM

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Ok...I'll bite. At the risk of seeming to know too much (ooooooo!), is Imagine one of the does? Come on, Doug, you know you cannot be secretive on HT...

Graffiti and Ella

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dozedotz · #65 10/25/13, 05:30 AM

Ahhhhhh! Graffiti is my absolute favorite!!! Cannot wait to see what develops there. Needless to say, great choices!!

IndyGardenGal · #66 10/25/13, 12:30 PM

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Ahhhhhh! Graffiti is my absolute favorite!!! Cannot wait to see what develops there. Needless to say, great choices!!

My two favorites are Christie and Audeo, but I'm not a spots nuts. I like the big girls.

dozedotz · #67 10/25/13, 01:30 PM

Here, here! A purist...probably a show judge...lol.
Well, Christie has certainly stood the test of time...her udder and conformation are great! I also love the BIG girls...but those little ones are starting to grow on me. I always think they are going to break (a leg anyway). However, our Ozarks Jewels Safari Chic is a very dairy, dainty thing and she puts out the milk and seems to be holding up against Jana's Indee...who is definitely a BIG girl (although with spots). Indee definitely likes to push her weight around. Still, she cannot hold off our Amberwood girl...talk about BIG! Even Emily said, "I cannot believe how big Joan's girls are!" In the end, it was the Amberwood girl's kid we kept from this year's crop and she does not have spots! So, that tells you we like 'um big!!

Doug Hodges · #68 10/25/13, 08:32 PM

I am trying to add the Hoanbu lines to the herd and isn't Ella a big girl for a 3 year old and Graffitti is only 2> However Audeo is being bred to Midnite. Im not a big fan of him and Christie is being bred to Maximus. I studied the Does and then I studied the bucks that the ones I liked were being bred to. I have a doe out of Dakota already and the Destiny to Grafitti breeding should produce great quality. I do like Audeo but would prefer her being bred to Dakota or Destiny. I looked at pedigrees, pictures, past kids, history, asked tons of questions and then went with what Jana recommended for the few I was interested in. I actually have three reservations and have Avalanche and Tina as backups also. Dakota and Destiny are her top two bucks in my opinion. Also, the G6S normal played a part too.

yarrow · #69 10/25/13, 09:56 PM

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My two favorites are Christie and Audeo, but I'm not a spots nuts. I like the big girls.

LOL.. we really do have VERY similar tastes in goats.. don't we??? I too find myself favoring these two does.. I think the blending of the SAADA & GOLDTHWAITE lines for Audeo is a natural/proven cross that should produce stunning kids...

susie, mo ozarks

IndyGardenGal · #70 10/25/13, 10:38 PM

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LOL.. we really do have VERY similar tastes in goats.. don't we??? I too find myself favoring these two does.. I think the blending of the SAADA & GOLDTHWAITE lines for Audeo is a natural/proven cross that should produce stunning kids...

susie, mo ozarks

Couldn't agree more!

dozedotz · #71 10/26/13, 02:49 AM

Jana has some beautiful animals and nice breeding. Personally, I am a great fan of Cindy Stewart, too, and Jana has LOTS of Cindy's breeding in her herd...bucks and does. We saw Cory as a baby when we picked up Knox and I knew then that he was going to be quite a boy. Looking at goat herds is like going through the "wish book" used to be at Christmas time!! LOL. Something for everyone on each page. So many pages, so little time...or is that so little $$$...?

IndyGardenGal · #72 10/26/13, 09:21 AM

I think it is a lot of fun trying to make my herd my own. Not just owning the big names and breeding them but really deciding on what my goals are and working towards that. With Susie getting the saada lines in, I know I'll be harassing her for years to come.

Doug Hodges · #73 10/26/13, 09:41 AM

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I think it is a lot of fun trying to make my herd my own. Not just owning the big names and breeding them but really deciding on what my goals are and working towards that. With Susie getting the saada lines in, I know I'll be harassing her for years to come.

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Ditto

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dozedotz · #74 10/26/13, 10:27 AM

You kids are more ambitious than I am...just having some beautiful, pasture ornaments grown by someone who knows what the heck they are doing is plenty for me! Although I admit that Joan and Emily were pretty instrumental in the selection of those ornaments...otherwise, who knows what their progeny might have looked like!!! lol

yarrow · #75 10/26/13, 12:54 PM

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I think it is a lot of fun trying to make my herd my own. Not just owning the big names and breeding them but really deciding on what my goals are and working towards that. With Susie getting the saada lines in, I know I'll be harassing her for years to come.

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and see again... same thoughts.. a big part of the reason I realized I was fine with Gloomy coming back into heat after the Kastdemur AI.... it gave me the chance to use one of the young bucklings (that is HALF SAADA)... I get a preview of what adding SAADA to my own breeding can do.. a whole year earlier!!! (buckling is also bred to at least one other of the does.. I plan on keeping girls -if I get nice ones- from both.. to breed when they are old enough.. to the SAADA buck I'm getting..

(honestly I've not even sat here and played planned breedings with the 5 SAADA kids I have reserved.. I'm not sure IF I'll even breed the SAADA girls to the SAADA buck or not.. getting them to see what I can produce with my own mixing and matching.. for me that's the fun part of the whole breeding process.. see what I can get from breedings that I've spent hours upon hours (sometimes days) going back & forth over different does & bucks pedigrees

Joan loves to play pedigree..we've been on the phone everyday this week.. she has a doeling out of Olive & Edge.. bringing her here to be bred next month.. trying to decide which way to go with her breeding..Joan knew so many folks & has seen so many goats over the years.. she has stories to go with pictures.. I'm just soaking it all up..and having a blast sharing the excitment with Joan..(who thought she was retired from the goat world, last summer after her stroke.. she placed all her goats..then this little girl was born and went to live with Joan... this will be the only nubian she is breeding this year...so we want something really nice!!)
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susie, mo ozarks

IndyGardenGal · #76 10/26/13, 12:58 PM

I'm pretty sure that it's impossible for goat people to ever "get out" of goats completely.

The buck I retained this year has really impressed me with how he's growing out. He is a DEEP guy, and I'm excited to use him next fall. I think I might match him up with Dolly.

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dozedotz · #77 10/26/13, 04:15 PM

GOD bless you, Susie! Joan has given so much to all of us and lots of others and she is is just lovin' that little kid to death...well, not death exactly...so far the kid is able to still walk! Maybe keeping Joan on the phone talking genetics is the way to keep her from hand feeding the little dumpling into "overeating heaven." I'm excited to hear who the boy will be...keep us posted!!