Our Freeloaders & Keeper Doelings

Vega brings us full circle. Vega's DDD, Ah-Misk-Farms Dark Mockingbird & her SDSD, E K Farms Goldfinch, were our two first goats. Vega also combines another of our five founding Dam Lines, Caprinos SA Lilly. Lilly & Goldie were our best two goats on the stand. We bred Lilly to Jacobim, Goldie's boy. Lola who has the best mammary & LA in our herd was the result of that pairing. Lola is Vega's, Sire's Dam. Vega also brings together our best Show Lines in the herd. Goldie has a GCH as a dry youngster. Mockingbird, placed 17th in Senior Yearling at 2015 ADGA Nationals. Vega's SSD is Wood Bridge Farm 22K Gold, 2021 ADGA National Champion.

As neither Sassy or Tickey has been appraised yet, so this is not a true Linear pairing. We however always look at Linear results when breeding our goats. Once a breeder starts to use Linear data in breeding it is something one always wants. We have found, breeding results may vary when only using Grandparent & Great-Grandparent Linear Results. That being said, we are experienced with Sassy & Lola's lines. In simpler terms this breeding matches a Doe with strong Rump/Weaker Milk to a Doe with strong Milk/Weak Rump.

At three weeks old Vega is looking good. She has a nice top line, wide chest, wide rear arch & her rump is looking nice. Vega & her brothers all have nice straight front legs. They have inherrited that from their Sire's Dam, Lola. She has E's FL, RL, BK & V's HD, SA, FT. Looking forward to see how she looks at 3 months. Her dam's FF udder is really nice. Much better than her dam's was as a two year old FF.

Junior Doe Vella Bella is beautiful! Lots of nice lines on this little one. Her dam, Stella, is Rumpelstilskin's first daughter to freshen & we are delighted. Vella is a repeat breeding, a Rumpel Daughter x Rapha. Only time will tell, but right now we are loving the results. We love Vella so much we opted to retain her and sell her yearling full sister instead.

At four months, Vella has a rump width of 4.5". Her yearling full sister, Thurday, has a rump width of 5.75". Thier sire, Raphael, scored a RW of 42 as a 2 year-old. His current rump width measures 7". For the minatures the Linear Scale for Rump Width every quarter inch is 5 points. 4.5" is a 5 and 6.5" is 45. Based on this I'd say Rapha has a 50 in Rump Width. We see him improving on rump width on most of our does.

Vixen is a beautiful Swiss Chamoisee Combination. It will be interesting to see what her base coat colors settles to. Her base coat was a stunning ruddy red at birth, just like a fox. She has strong facial stripes & moonspots. Her legs are mix of pale golden tan w/black markings & Random White. At three days old she has a very nice top line, rump, wide chest and such elegant dairy character. She has inherrited her beautiful general apperance from her sire. Can't wait to see her at 3 weeks and 3 months.

Tonic, Vixen's Sire, is just beautiful. He just has the worst luck trying to get a full appraisal. Our appraiser in 2025 just could not get over how exceptional he is. In 2023 he was appraised under code 99. He received E's in Head, Back, Rump and a V in Rear Legs. He just keeps getting better. Tonic has nice milking & show lines. Tonic comes from a strong performing Paternal Line. Sire, SS, SSS & SDS all have earned their +B or +S. His paternal brother, sire & sire's sire are also Elite Bucks. To make Elite, Bucks must be in the top 15% and have daughters born within the last 4 years & have a Production Type Index value of 0 or greater. The 15% is the average Percetile Rank of his daughters in a bucks Production Evaluation.

Vixen's dam represents the materinal side of our Grinny Line. Kastor's maternal brother's granddaughters were our two top performing First Freshners in 2025. Grinny was linebred ARMCH TWIN CREEKS LS LUCK OFTHE DRAW ++* S E. A very nice old school line. Kastor is a great solid goat, FS88 (VEEG) @ 05-02. She has E's in Rear Legs & Rump. She also has V's in Shoulder Assembly & Back. Kastor could use improvements in Fore Udder Attachment, Rear Udder Height, Head, Front Legs & Feet. Kastor does not have a "Show" udder, but she is awesome on the milk stand.

Vesper has a lap dog temperment. She is just the sweetest little thing. It was a really hard deceision on which of Selene's girls to keep as I only have room for one. Velvet, Vesper's sister, is orinally who we were going to retain. Vesper however just won us over with her silly antics. She is the smallest of Selene's triplets but the most adventurous. Both are just about the same confirmationally. Velvet having a more elegant neck but Vesper has a nicer head. Both are eye-catching, polled & moonspotted. Vesper is gold & white w/Brown Eyes.

This breeding is going to be exciting. Tickety is young so it is hard to know if we have achieved what I was hoping for when we bred for him. We really like how he is coming along . Nice looking young buck. Tickety's Dam is our sweet Lola. Lola has the worst timing for Appraising but has absolutley the best udder in my herd. She just appraised under Code 99 and blew us away with her Structural Scores of E & V. She does have a weakness, and that is her Rump. She was bred to Cox to improve her Rump Width and possibly of add a bit of fore-udder refinement. Cox's Dam, Wood Bridge Farm 22K GOLD is the 2021 ADGA National Champion.

Tickety was shown for the first time at the Wicked Early Spring Show, 5/23/26. There were 20 buck registered in the 1-2 Year old Class. Think there were 16 in the class. He placed: 5th - Ring 1, 6th - Ring 2, 5th - Ring 3. Judges seemed to like his nice rear leg anglulation and rump. We are really excited for him, he is such a nice sweet young buck. He is a natural in the ring & he was so well behaved. He even beat a few 2 year olds! If Tickety stays under height we will continue to show him, he really seems to like it.

Selene is also a young, immature and very dairy doe, but she scored a FS83 (GGGG) in 2025 as a FF Yearling @ 86 DIM. She has just so much potential and has already eclipsed her dam. Selene's dam did not start to shine until four in her 3rd freshening. Selene is going to be one of those does just gets better with age. At her 2nd freshening this year I am actually just blown away with how her udder is maturing. Her medial is comming in nicely & it seems she has a bit more fore-udder this year. Her teat placement was nice as a FF but it has gotten even better as a 2F. I can't wait to get her on the stand once we wean her kids. Based on Selene's udder I doubt I will be offering up any of her 1/2 sisters out of our Lola when she kids. Lola is Tickety's dam.

It is always tough when breeding immature, unproven younsters. For this match we own or have owned the following: Dam, Sire, DS, DD, SD, DDS, SDS, DDD, SDD, DDSD, SDSD, DDDS, DDDD & DDDDD. So feeling like we have a handle on this matches genetics. Gonna just have to trust the numbers & lineage behind this breeding.This breeding combines the lines of two of my favorite does, who happen to be first cousins. They are also out of my top performing milk lines. Brewfm Laia & Brewfm Lola were bestie bottle babies. That sister bond continued till we sold Laia and her daughter Moon in 2024. These kids will have everything we breed for Temperment, Strong Maternal Instincts, Solid No Fuss Milking Does, Structuraly Correct & COI under 4%. We can't wait to meet these kids, it will be hard to let any of them go. Selene was also covered by our buck Tanqueray. We do plan on keeping a doe from Tickey & Tanqueray. Gold Kid's sire can only be Tickety's, Swiss can only be Tonic's. Black kids will need to be tested for Paterinity. Selene and her daughters are a big part of our herds future.

Violet is a very large single kid. She will take a bit of time to unfold, but we are already loving what we see. She has nice long legs, straight top line an a beautiful head. Thinking she might be brown but we will have to wait and see on that. Her ear tips and nose look to be brown and not black but that could also just be brown moonspots.

As this is a Linear Breeding, this is what we are hoping to achieve. Lola could use more Rump Width and more blended Fore-Udder transition. Rapha scored a 42 in Rump Width & his dam has a 34 in Fore Udder & 33 in Udder Depth. I would also like to see a bit more Udder Depth in Lola's kids. Lola's udder is her strongest asset, but it has not been appraised since she was two in 2021. FYI, she had to be dried off in 2023 due to Milk Stones & in 2025 due to Shoulder Injury on the reccomendation of our vet. At her sixth freshening, at six years old w/sextuplets her udder was just fantastic. She would have been able to nurse all six!

Rapha is a sweet young buck. His pedigree is without question, impeccable. He has a pedigree full of great Linear Scores, Show Wins, Superior Genetics, Elite Status, and PTI/ETA scores over 100. He is linebred NC PROMISEDLAND MG DIVA. He did very well for a young immature buck at our 2025 Linear Appraisal. We were very pleased with his FS86 (VVV ) with E's in Head, Rear Legs & Back. He is nicely balanced with Body Depth: 33, Strength: 34, Dairyness: 35. As a two-year-old, Rapha's scores indicated he could use improvement in Front Legs, Shoulder Assembly & Feet. Lola scored E in Front Legs, V in Shoulder Assembly & V in Feet at our 2025 Appraisal. Lola's Paternal Sister is Kastor, who scored a FS88 (VEEG) 05-02 at our 2023 Appraisal was bred to Rapha with beautiful results.