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NEWS!

 

Last updated 5 June 2009

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The Alaska Mini Goat Cache & the Alaska Dairy Goat Association are sponsoring dairy and pygmy goat events in June including shows and AGS classification! Don't miss out on these rare and fantastic opportunities to participate, have your goats evaluated, and network with others in your field of interest! Visit http://alaskaminigoatcache.com for more information!

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SUPPLIES

We are working to bring a supply of an outstanding goat supplement to Alaska. We are trying to nail down purchase and shipping costs at this time. Please email us to express your interest in purchasing Bluebonnet's Tech-Master Mineral Concentrate.

 

HEALTH UPDATE!

May 15, 2009, WADDL just confirmed our entire herd remains negative for CAE, CL, & Johne's. We are proud of our commitment to maintain a clean dairy herd!

August 2008, our entire herd was examined and once again tested completely free of CAE, CL, and Johne's! We are very confident in these results since all our goats have only come from two clean, tested herds with long histories of negative test results for their entire herds. As always, we are happy to provide to our buyers proof of these test results for our whole herd as well as for the herds from whom we have purchased goats.

 

IN THE MILKING PARLOR!

Holy moley are our girls producing! The 2009 lactations are off to a rockin' start!! On May 9, 2009, Whisper milked a personal best of 5.2# on test! On April 11, 2009, Butter posted a personal best of 4.5# on test! Gracie, a first-freshener, milked 4.1# on her first test in April and then went on to milk 4.7# on her second test in May! Beanie, another first-freshener, milked 3.8# on her first test! Nova produced a personal best of 2.0# on test and we are working with her to find just the right balance of care so she can reach her full potential. Butter and Whisper already have their stars, and at this rate, Gracie and Beanie will have their stars as soon as we do a one-day test in June.

Butter, Whisper, and Waiting should qualify for 2008 Bronze Juju awards from ANDDA and if we keep them in milk long enough, they should do even better in 2009

Our senior does were just awesome on DHI last year! Overall, each does' milk production was up around 30% to 50% from their prior lactations. Waiting (a second-freshener) and Butterscotch, posted numbers over 4# and the Whisper posted just under 4#! WOW! Now if we had only done one-day tests, they might have made the Top 10!! We're also watching Butterscotch closely, as her last three official DHI tests have registered her butterfat over 10%, with her last at 10.8%!! Too bad we didn't get an one-day test organized by the time we dried her up. If she had produced this much butterfat during such an event, she may have ended up being the all-time highest butterfat on an one-day test with AGS! The current record, set in 2006, is 10%. Our goal is to build a herd of does that can each produce a minimum of 1,000 pounds of milk per year by their second lactation. Root for us in 2009 as we freshen at least eleven does!

 

IN THE SHOW RING!

We are very proud to announce that our wonderful buck, MCH Sandy Hollow UK Chesire Cat *S *B is now a permanent MASTER CHAMPION (MCH) in AGS! Many thanks to all the wonderful judges that awarded him wins to contribute to his title. During 2008, Cheshire took RES. GRAND CHAMPION NIGERIAN DWARF BUCK four times under Judges Marie Layman and Tessa Magguilli in the ADGA/AGS June Solstice Shows, and GRAND CHAMPION NIGERIAN DWARF BUCK under Rusty Repp at the Alaska State Fair AGS Show. Cheshire also defeated the previously undefeated Champion Challenger AND took BEST BUCK IN SHOW under Judge Repp.

Our new yearling SilverAurora TH Xbean took GRAND CHAMPION JR. NIGERIAN DWARF DOE and BEST JR. DOE IN SHOW (66 does entered) at the ADGA Alaska State Fair show under Judge Daniel Considine! In previous shows, she also took RES. GRAND CHAMPION JR. NIGERIAN DWARF DOE under Judges Rusty Repp (AGS) and Heather Arts (ADGA/AGS) in August 2008.

Our wonderful yearling buck, half-brother to Xbean, SilverAurora TH Xenya *S took GRAND CHAMPION NIGERIAN DWARF BUCK in the ADGA/AGS August Summer Harvest Show under judge Heather Arts.

And finally, one of our very first kids, a 2008 chocolate with a "milk moustache", Fair Skies CC Yoohoo *S, took GRAND CHAMPION JR. NIGERIAN DWARF BUCK at the ADGA Alaska State Fair show under Judge Daniel Considine. We were pleasantly surprised, to say the least!

We also had some other nice placings and we are very happy with the way our goats (and our own handling skills) are coming along in the show ring. The goats are getting more practice walking with us and standing properly for conformation evaluation. We're also seeing some LOVELY udders on the girls this year. May be 2009 will be the year we can coerce someone into taking some decent photos to submit to ANDDA for All American Awards.

Finally, Heather also received word that she was selected as the Alaska State Fair in Palmer's 2008 Rookie of the Year!

For more on our herd's show wins, please visit our Show Wins page.

 

KIDS!

The 2009 kids have already started arriving! As of May 2009, we have 14 new kids on the ground and boy are they impressive! The girls are all sold or retained but we have several wethers available. Two of the boys may be available as herdsires to just the right show homes, or else we will retain them here for evaluation.

The 2008 kids were a great start to our herd's first kidding season and we ended up retaining all but two wethers! We have some amazing up-and-comers that are sure to make their mark in the next couple of years. In the meantime, please check our kidding schedule and plan your reservations now! We are only accepting a very limited number of deposits this year. If you are outside Southcentral Alaska, we can arrange for health certificates and testing and ship out of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC). If you purchase when they are young and small enough, even at weaning at 12 weeks, two kids may be able to share a crate for the trip to you.

 

SEE OUR SALES PAGE FOR THE CURRENT LIST OF GOATS FOR SALE AND VISIT OUR KIDDING SCHEDULE TO PLAN YOUR RESERVATIONS.

 

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).