Remember the Ladies from Rocksprings that I wrote about one time in the Goat Rancher who roped goats in competition? Well, they also raise goats. Frances Nix is one of those ladies who can rope a goat and hold her own with the best of them. She and her husband both have jobs with the telephone company, but live on a ranch and raise meat goats. Rocksprings is one of the four towns we are "40 miles from."

Many years ago Jerry Nix made us this beautiful sign which we keep on the front room mantel. And Frances is a talented photographer who shares with us when she gets a special picture of the ranch country out here. We'll post the next one she takes somewhere on this website for you to enjoy, too.

Frances and Jerry Nix whose ranch is near Rocksprings, Texas, have been using our billies continuously since the very first year we had Codi-PCI goats. The first billy they used was Shaka Khan who had both of our Kaptein billies in his pedigree- Cloud Dancing's brother Shaka Zorro and Big Foot (AKA Comet). After him came a Liveoak son. Now they are using Baby Buffalo, a grandson of Buffalo. The picture I have shows him as a baby, but he has grown into a big old billy goat now; still has good meat and a good disposition.

At our Tyler sale in October they bought one of the very best billies we raised in '06 and named him High Dollar.

I sent Frances this baby picture and told her it showed High Dollar when he was so little he was being called High Nickel. I don't know that we have ever taken a picture of a week old billy kid who had more bone, more length of hip and fuller muscle in his hind leg, more width of his back, more length of loin or a stouter foreleg.

Baby Buffalo

"High Nickel"