AppleJo Farms Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats new herd sire is McGibbony| Kona's Son for sale

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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!

McGibbony (A Kona Son)

PD2271962 PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY

(Famous Kona's son/Kona Top Ten Performance Doe in USA ADGA list-milked over 2100 lbs of milk in a year)

McGibbony is a treasure and strong performance herd builder I'm proud to have as sire to several AppleJo Farms' kids.

PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY has an exceptional wide storage area (as shown in the picture above) to pass on to his offspring. Udder storage area is so important for a dairy goat, most impactful to the doe. The doe should have a high udder close to the body (not pendulous) with wide udder attachments in both the front and back of the udder. These attachments help keep the udder in shape and prevents it from becoming loose where it puts more wear and tear on the animal and makes it more likely for the udder to be damaged while the goat wanders its enclosure and interacts with other goats. This width in McGibbony is therefore very important to give his offspring the potential of being a superior dairy goat.

PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY PD2271962 is a Buck from:

PD1718990 SG LITTLE HOOFPRINTS Kona

ADGA TOP TEN BREED LEADERS in the U.S. 2021

NIGERIAN DWARF Volume #68

#1 in MILK PRODUCTION *PD1718990 SG LITTLE HOOFPRINTS KONA 1*M 2130# CHRISTOPHER, owned by PAT & JOHN CHRISTOPHER
#1 in PROTEIN PRODUCTION *PD1718990 SG LITTLE HOOFPRINTS KONA 1*M 2130#

NEWS:

From ADGA Jim VanDerlinde

Performance Programs Manager

American Dairy Goat Association: DNA RESULTS

Parentage and Genetic Marker results for PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY(ADG33279)
PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY PD2271962 qualifies as an offspring of LITTLE HOOFPRINTS KONA PD1718990 and PATS BLACK OAK FARM SAMSON PD2130910.
The DNA type for PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY(ADG33279) is listed as a permanent record or parentage tested and is now on file in the ADGA database

ALPHA-s1 CASEIN RESULTS for McGibbony: A/B

A and B variants are associated with a high content of alpha-s1 casein in milk. Milk with high levels of ALPHA-s1 CASEIN is said to produce a firmer curd in cheese making.

Phenotype: The gene underlying the production of alpha-s1 casein in goat's milk shows polymorphisms that affect the amount of protein and fat produced. Higher levels of alpha-s1 casein are associated with the best cheese-making.

Please read all about McGibbony, the offspring of famous LITTLE HOOFPRINTS KONA, who also is part of AppleJo Farms herd. Kona (McGibbony's Dam) is #1 in Top Ten MILK PRODUCTION (2130# of milk for the year) AND #1 in Top Ten Protein Production in the nation, 2021.
Kona's Reservation list: we are taking 2025 Wait List applicants only, for her, at this time. Email me your name & contact info. to be put on her Wait List: applejofarms@gmail.com

McGibbony has the wide Escutcheon area between the back legs, where the udder lies in a doe. This area should be wide in a dairy goat to carry a large udder well. Breeding McGibbony to our does increases this quality in his kids genetically.

PD2271962
DOB: 09/23/2022
Sex: Buck
Description: BUCKSKIN WITH SCATTERED WHITE AND BROWN EYES
Sire: PATS BLACK OAK FARM SAMSON
PD2130910
5 generation Pedigree available

PD1765251DILL'S RC STORM CLOUD

PD1687714DILL'S B&R REDNECK CRAZY

PD1632725DILL'S RD FOOLISH HEART

Sire PATS BLACK OAK FARM SAMSON Certificates:

20201112391

9/29/2020

20211336688

12/13/2022

Dam: SG LITTLE HOOFPRINTS KONA
PD1718990
McGibbony's Dam, Kona, is #1 of ADGA 2021 PERFORMANCE BREEDLEADERS. Each year ADGA recognizes the top ten producing does in each breed from the prior year’s completed lactation records. Kona (McGibbony's Dam) is #1 in Top Ten MILK PRODUCTION (2130# of milk for the year) AND #1 in Top Ten Protein Production in the Nation as reported in last fall's ADGA 2021 PERFORMANCE BREEDLEADERS Report.

McGibbony's Dam, Kona, above in her support bra after kidding. At times, older milk does heavily producing milk, need this support to protect their udder.

Second picture above show's Kona with part of her 12 hour fill.

McGibbony at 6 months (March 2023)

McGibbony's Pedigree is loaded with Permenant Champions and Superior Genetics. Following are just some of these which you may read about on ADGA website:

Dam's side

PD1514522 SG DILL'S BF GENUINE ARTICLE
PD1464018 GCH AGS DILL'S FH DOO WOP
PD1474562 SG NC PROMISEDLAND RC BONAFIDE
PD1464024 SGCH AGS DILL'S TG BRAND NEW GIRLFRIEND
PD1360225 SG AGS PROMISEDLAND CP SHABOOM

Sire's side

PD1632731 SG DILL'S RD BIG & RICH
PD1623995 SG NC PROMISEDLAND MS RIVER DANCE
PD1505632 SG AGS DRAGONFLY MX ARIANE

Pat Christopher, long-time dairy goat breeder and participator in ADGA Performance Programs is the breeder of this amazing buck: PATS BLACK OAK FARM MCGIBBONY now residing at AppleJo Farms.