AAL Hot Fusion To Retire
Carol Wolf-Gessini
Wolf Creek Farms
My llama, ALSA Halter Champion, Multiple Best in Show winner, AAL Hot Fusion is retiring from showing. After winning 7 Best in Show, 15 Grand championships, 1 best traditional male at the CLI show in only
17 shows in a 2 year period, we are retiring him to begin his breeding career. We are a very small llama farm in Dandridge, TN and have been thrilled with his success in the ring. Fusion is also very gentle and a camera hog. He gives kisses to kids and lets everyone pet him. He has been on television, in parades, and is the perfect gentleman when showing. We will miss his "look at me and I deserve to win" attitude in the ring but are anxiously awaiting his offspring to carry on the tradition.
Baby Jack Attends Antique Festival
Janet Efird
Peach Tree Farms
Peach Tree Farms is a small little country farm located about 30 miles east of Charlotte, NC.
We raise registered Nigerian Dwarf Goats and AKC Great Pyrenees dogs.
We attend the Big Lick Antique Festival in Oakboro, NC twice a year and take a few of our goats for the Petting barn. This is a big hit, everyone loves them. Jack, a baby buck, got to go to the Antique Festival this year. Oh what fun he had. The Nigerian Dwarf being a small breed, makes it easy for us to travel with them places. They are so much fun, and having new babies just makes all the work worth while.
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Big Shoes To Fill!
Becky DiLella
Dixie-Does Alpines
Two year old Dixie-Does WC Antoinette 2*M has some big hoof prints to follow. Her dam is one of our most productive does. Antoinette got off to a great start as a yearling milker in 2007. She earned her milk star, won first place 10 times at official sanctioned shows, and appraised Very Good 86. However, when Antoinette freshened this spring she began milking better than ever. At 21 months of age, with two freshenings under her belt, she is giving 15-17 lbs daily, or around 2 gallons.
She milks with ease, maintaining excellent body condition. At Antoinette's first show of 2008 she earned two Best Udder Of Breed awards. We are honored to have this lovely lady in our barn.
Antoinette is smart, funny, feminine and precocious. She has an engaging personality that charms all who know her.
Her hair is short and sassy and her eyelashes are long and flirty, even without mascara. Antoinette has long slender legs and a model’s walk. She turns heads with her beautiful profile and dramatic black lips. She had her first daughter, Antonella, on her first birthday, making her own mother a grandmother at the age of two.
Dixie-Does WC Antoinette is the ideal example of a dairy goat. She is an American Alpine doe. Antoinette is a classic color pattern known as Cou Blanc. She has a wall hung with red-white-and-blue Alpine rosettes and a shelf covered with trophies. Antoinette is a show off. She finds any bucket left unattended and slips it over her head to startle any unsuspecting passerby. Antoinette loves attention and seeks affection from anyone who enters her barn.
Antoinette has a delicate, feminine head with a long slender nose. Her face is covered with sleek white hair, punctuated by several narrow black stripes. Black circles her eyes and travels down towards her muzzle. Her lips are black, with soft gray hairs about her nostrils. Her huge liquid eyes are golden with hazel flecks. Her ears prick forward with curiosity. Antoinette’s neck is giraffe like, long and elegant with silky white hair. A red plastic chain collar graces her neck, a ruby necklace. The same white hairs cover her entire front half, where they unexpectedly turn inky black. Her hindquarters are also jet black, except her lower legs become snow white again at her hocks. Her feet are delicate cloven hooves.
Antoinette’s body echoes the length in her stylish head and neck. She is tall with thin legs supporting her feminine yet powerful frame. Her front legs are straight and slender, topped by a wide smooth shoulders and chest. Her stomach is round and wide, supported by an open angular rib cage. Her back is long and straight, flowing into a wide level rump. Her rear legs are widely spaced to accommodate her large udder. Antoinette’s udder is globular and capacious, attached tightly to her body. Her round gray udder has two small teats.
Antoinette stands calmly on the old wooden milk stand to be milked. Her head dips to her feed trough for a bite of sweet oats and barley; she lifts her head and chews thoughtfully while gazing about her. The stainless steel pail beneath her quickly fills with foamy white milk; the soft hissing sound attracts the hungry barn cats. The milk stand sits in a row of four other stands just like it. Each milk stand holds another doe being stripped of her load of fresh milk. The milk stands sit on a concrete floor. Antoinette’s stand is the last stand to the right. Beside her are bags and containers of grain. Smart Antoinette has learned to stretch her neck just far enough to slip a stolen nibble of one or more of her favorite treats. Glossy black sunflowers seeds, crumbly beet pulp, and golden oats are among her favorite foods. Relieved of the burden of her milk, Antoinette lingers over the last bites of her grain. Sweet smells of molasses, milk and alfalfa hay fill the small room. Soft chewing sounds fill the room as Antoinette pensively chews her cud.
In my opinion Antoinette is the ideal dairy goat. She is pretty and stylish with attractive markings. Her body type is ideal with correct conformation. She has a correctly shaped udder with excellent milk production. She consistently wins at shows and fairs. Antoinette delights us in the barn with her antics and charms. The farm motto at Dixie-Does Alpines is “an emphasis on excellence”. Antoinette is a prime example of the type of excellence we are working to breed.
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