TINY HILL TOBERMORY Elspeth

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Note from AppleJo Farms: This is why my breeding does and bucks are purchased from milk performance herds, so I can bred with superior milk producing Nigerians and get kids with so much more milk potential to sell to Homesteaders.

Why Choose Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats?

Why invest in better quality Nigerians right from the start?

Cottonwood Hollow Homestead writes the following:

Thinking about getting Nigerian goats for your homestead?

I get jars of goat milk where the whole jar is two-thirds cream!! And it's sweet with no hint of goat flavor. No other goat breed can compare to the flavor and quality of a Nigerian.

An interesting fact we learned, however, as we started our journey raising dairy goats about 9 years ago, was that not all dairy goats are created equal in the milking department. Our first couple of "dairy" goats came from a very well-known breeder in the Midwest, but it wasn't a breeder who actively participated in milk testing; basically, she just bred for fun colors and blue eyes (nothing wrong with that; that was actually a big part of what initially drew us to this breed). They were perfect goats for us to start with; we didn't have a huge investment in high-quality genetics while we figured things out (translate: made lots and lots of mistakes). But the milk these does produced was just okay...nothing special to be sure.

A few years later, I got more interested in milk test programs and genetics and spent many hours researching. We started working with breeders like Southern Grace (and shortly after Sinai Thunder and D & L Meadows), who were actively breeding for excellent dairy goats. We got our first goats from each of them in 2019.

The difference in milk quality after this was night and day! We were amazed. It made me realize how worthwhile it was to invest in the better goats, from breeders who track the milk production and quality. After all, the feed and infrastructure are typically going to cost more than the actual goat; even the price of a very good quality show goat is not going to surpass all the other expenses over its lifetime. And those feed and infrastructure expenses are the same regardless of whether it's a great milker or a poor one. For the past several years, we have also been actively tracking our milk and weeding out the poor producers with low butterfat from our herd (except for the ones my mom is really attached to and won't let me sell, lol). Now, as you can see by the photo, all that hard work and selection is paying us back with liquid gold!

TINY HILL TOBERMORY Elspeth-Doe

One of AppleJo Farms Top Does!

If correct confirmation & outstanding Dairyness are important to you, Elspeth kids are for you. She is dairy long and kids like a dream too!

Tiny Hill Farm Nigerians have extremely competitive milking genetics, including two Top Ten does in 2020, 15 Elite goats in August 2023, 14 Elite goats in December 2023, and four ADGA Young Sire Development Program Qualifiers in 2020.

PD2292178 TINY HILL TOBERMORY Elspeth
DOB: 03/25/2023
Sex: Doe
Disbudded

Sire: PD2119216 TINY HILL FARM MOONAGEDAYDREAM. Tiny Hill Farm MoonageDaydream *B – David
2024 ADGA Elite List: SG Tiny Hill Farm MoonageDaydream +*B (96th percentile buck)
(Highest living ETA/PTA Elite buck SG Sugar Moon V High Roller ++*B X TOP TEN SG Tiny Hill Farm Sansa 1*M) DOB 3/3/20 Chamoise with white and extensive moon spotting. David qualified for ADGA’s 2020 Young Sire Development Program. This far-out buck has outstanding mammary, milk production, and udder longevity genetics which are exactly what we want in our herd. His very first daughter on milk test, Elite Doe SG (pending)Tiny Hill Farm Hazel Decker 7*M is a 99th percentile Elite doe who produced 1,130lbs of milk over her first lactation as a milking yearling. David carries recessive black coat coloration.
Elspeth's Sire, Tiny Hill Farm Moonagedaydream, carries strong Sugar Moon, Old Mountain Farm, Promisedland, and Rosasharn genetics. In fact, these are entirely Elspeth's genetics on her Sire's side!

Elspeth's Dam: PD1759965 SG The Tiny Hill Farm's Superlois, is a TOP TEN ELITE Doe. SG The TinyHillFarm’s SuperLois 6*M VEEV88, (96th percentile and 2024 is her 9th consecutive year as an Elite doe. 1600+lb milker.) – Lois ( SG Sugar Moon V High Roller ++*B X SG Old Mountain Farm Mishell Anet 5*M VEEE89) DOB 5/9/15 Black with random white and moon spots. Lois’s ADGA page. Lois made ADGA’s Elite Doe list in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. This little doe’s 297 day lactation in 2017 was 1,217lbs of milk as a second freshener. In 2020, Lois produced 1,640lbs of milk over her 317 day long 6th lactation. She was ranked 5th for milk production and 6th for protein production on ADGA’s 2020 Top Ten Breed Leader list. Lois’s very stale 2021 linear appraisal score was VEEV88. With a dam and a granddam on the 2020 Top Ten list, we expect Elspeth to be a spectacular milk producer. Elspeth dam, Lois, has now been retired, thus Elsbeth came from her last kidding.

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