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Fair Skies Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats

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The improvement of mammary (milk production) genetics is vital to the success of our chosen breed.

We are a member of the Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) program through Langston University's E (Kika) de la Garza Institute for Goat Research, with authorization to test all lactating does under the auspices of ADGA and AGS through the end of 2008.  We have been testing since December 8, 2007 as DHI Herd #96007000, and prior to the establishment of our herd, our adult does were on test at SilverAurora. Heather is also licensed as a certified tester through Langston, license #847, effective through 2008. With this license she can test for other herds, but to avoid bias, she cannot officially test our own does or any does in which we have a pecuniary interest.

 

Ask us about our Dairy Herd Improvement incentive program!  We may offer a credit toward a future purchase if you place and maintain your herd on test through the DHI program.

 

We received our results from our January and February 2008 milk tests but we are currently awaiting an explanation for some unexpected results, which we suspect were caused by a processing error at the laboratory. We have also learned that the same error is suspected in another herd tested and processed at the same time in February.

Lactation records for our does
Doe	Freshened	Age at Kidding	Dry	Lactation	Days in Milk	Milk (#)	Butterfat (#, %)		Protein (#, %)
Butterscotch	5/23/08	59 months (4.11)		5	*	*	*	*	*	*
	6/8/07	48 months (4.0)	2/22/08	4	260	459	33	7.2%	20	4.4
	8/7/06	37 months (3.1)	3/12/07	3	218	434	38	8.8%	21	4.8%
	7/2/05	24 months (2.0)	11/24/05	2	146	257	22	8.6%	11	4.3%
	9/16/04	14 months (1.2)	4/15/05	1	212	380	28	7.4%	19	5.0%
Lifetime to date*					836*	1,530*	121*	8.0%*	71*	4.6%*
Butter has already earned her dairy stars.
WaitingForMe	7/17/07	17 months (1.5)	3/22/08	1	250*	407*	27*	6.6%*	18*	4.4%*
Waiting has earned her dairy stars (pending) for protein & butterfat! Yippee!
WhisperSweetly	4/22/08	26 months (2.2)		2	*	*	*	*	*	*
	7/17/07	17 months (1.5)	before 11/3/07	1	110	196	9	4.6%	9	4.6%
*Incomplete

 

You may email us at: FairSkies@AllISawFarm.com

You may call us at:
907.232.5414 (local call from Mat-Su)
or 907.441.1851 (local call from Anchorage)
Please note the current time in Alaska (we are 4 hours BEHIND the East Coast of the United States).