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That Old
Kaptein Magic
Symphony X
The Blue Moon Dynasty
The Toby Touch
The Legacy of Liveoak
One more good
reason to be excited about the ’06 kid crop…
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We are delighted to welcome
Snuffy Smith
to
our herd.
Thank you, Jody and Chance Smith of Wink,
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At five and one half
years old Snuffy looks better than many
young billy goats. Look at how tight his
shoulders are, how straight his back and how
heavy his hindquarters still are. And most
amazing of all – look how well Jody and
Chance Smith have kept his feet trimmed! He
is up on his feet like a yearling. We
appreciate this opportunity to own one of
the breed’s outstanding sires. As the third
brother in our line breeding program we
expect him to turn out the best kids we have
ever raised.
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Seven Good Reasons Why We're Looking Forward
to the '06 Kid Crop ...
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Buffalo Moon and all these other
Honey Girl sons, grandsons, and one
nephew make up our squadron of
sires. It proves the wisdom of that
old saying that behind every good
billy is a good nanny.
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7A+ Buffalo Moon
Honey Girl & Buffalo |
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7A+ Lodestone
Honey Bunch & Granite
(Honey Bunch is
Honey Girl/Stetson) |
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7A+ Rawhide
Snowspark & Liveoak
(Snowspark is
Honey Girl & Billy Bob) |
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DSM Patrick ("Toby-Wobb")
Wobbles & Tobias
(Honey Girl & Wobbles are from
the same mother & brothers) |
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7A+ Alazan
Honey Girl & Liveoak |
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7A+ Traildriver
Crystaldew & Rawhide
(Crystaldew is
Honey Girl/Rainey) |
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7A+ Spur
Skydancing and Choctaw
(Choctaw is Honey Girl/Rainey)
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And
here's the Lady herself!
Honey Girl |
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That
Old Kaptein Magic |
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We think he was
an outstanding individual with genetics of such
value that we strengthen his influence in our
herd by line-breeding. Kaptein was the major
herd sire for the Codi-PCI quarantine - one of
only two quarantines who managed to find a crack
in government regulations that allowed them to
bring in herds straight from South Africa,
without going through quarantine in another
country or implanting embryoes in Canada before
moving those recipients across the border.
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We
never owned Kaptein, but have bought his descendants
for years from the people who had enough money to
buy him. He didn’t live very long after he was sold
when the quarantine was lifted, but he left behind a
legacy that continues to be very strong today in
many herds. Our herd is heavily dependent on his
heredity. We call it "That Old Kaptein Magic."
We
have owned several of his children. Two sons:
Bigfoot, and Zorro - brother to
Cloud Dancing and
Scott, both of whom we used as herd sires. Our Zorro
was the last of those Kala/Kaptein sires to die, but
we lost him in 2003. We’ve kept some of his last
kids from Red Wing. Lizzie (from Zorro and
Elizabeth) is giving us 50% Kaptein genetics to work
with. Caliche was another 50% Kaptein goat from
Scott and Elizabeth. Banjo is his son from Sweet
Flower. He turns out good kids for us and is always
ready for a hug. We bought Victoria and Elizabeth,
two Kaptein daughters from Patches - a big, thrifty
Keri Downs nanny. Victoria died, but we have Larissa
and Marjorie Daw - her daughters from Cloud Dancing.
Elizabeth is still with us. Margaret, PBL 60
("Pebbles"), and PBL 18 are all Kaptein daughters.
Because we are convinced that line-breeding is the
best way to make superior animals, almost every goat
we have in our herd has Kaptein on both sides of his
pedigree- usually more than once. We have woven his
genetics back and forth with those of the other
Codi-PCI goats.
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Symphony
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Perfect
Ten
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Our first ten-thousand-dollar nanny -- expensive because so many people wanted her. J.R. - a PCI herd sire - was the father of Perfect Ten. Her mother was from the Australian Breeding Management Boers quarantined in Missouri. Even though she is about 8 goat models old now, her length, height, and elegance are still impressive, and she’s given us back much more than she cost!
We call her influence in our herd Symphony Ten. Her sweet music has drifted down through several generations now and is best when it mingles with that Old Kaptein
Magic. You can always tell a Perfect Ten daughter by the way she walks: with a long stride and the posture of a queen. Her sons are long-bodied, smooth-muscled, and stand tall. Like Louis L’Amour’s famous Sacketts,
they are spread from Texas to the hills
of Tennessee and Kentucky and on through
Arizona into the gold fields of
California.
Stetson, the Ten son that we
kept, became a Bronze Champion and left us some good kids before he died at 18 months old.
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7A+ Bonanza
Two Reserve Grand Championships
One year old
from
7A+ Madeira |
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7A+ Granite
1 1/2 years old
from 7A+Muscadine
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These billies are from three generations of
Kaptein sires bred to Perfect Ten nannies. |
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The
Blue Moon Dynasty
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Honey
Girl
Daughter
of Chakatta and Cloud Dancing
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Honey
Girl is our favorite nanny from The Blue
Moon Dynasty - the name we use for goats
that combine heredity from the two PCI
sires Tsjaka and Kaptein. When we watched
this honey-headed beauty thread her way
through a hillside full of fine goats as a
kid, we just couldn’t see any other nanny.
She has the widest top and the longest loin
we have ever seen, and we are thrilled with
her offspring. Over
ninety of the kids born in 2003 are Honey Girl’s
grandchildren, and we’d be happy to have twice that
many. She even took time out to win Grand Champion
Senior Doe in Liveoak, Florida. She’s our
once-in-a-lifetime foundation nanny!
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Honey Girl's Girls |
7A+ Honey Bunch
Father 7A+ Stetson |
7A+ Snowspark
Father Billy Bob |
7A+ Crystaldew
Father Rainey |
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Honey Girl's Boys |
7A+ Alazan
Honey Girl and Liveoak |
7A+ Shaughnessy
Honey Bunch and Liveoak |
7A+ Rawhide
Snowspark and Liveoak |
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The Toby
Touch
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We
met Ram H Tobias when he
was only a kid, and we
were impressed. He had
barely arrived in Talpa,
Texas, from his
birthplace in Canada
when he was pressed into
service as a model of
good confirmation for an
article in the Goat
Rancher. His width
and meaty hindquarters
were what we noticed (as
well as his charming
personality.) We were
fortunate enough to use
him with our nannies
several seasons and were
well pleased with the
kids we got.
"Toby’s" biggest
influence on our herd
began when we bought the
son he produced from a
Kaptein daughter named
Eve. When DSM Liveoak
came into our lives good
fortune was smiling on
the 7A+ Boers! That same
day we bought Tobias’
nephew Juniper. Since
that day we have bought
as many goats related to
Tobias as we could.
We have bought:
Liveoak’s full brother
Buffalo
Tobias’ sister Adena
Brew and one more of her
sons - Jeremiah
Liveoak’s full sister
Two Tobias daughters
from an African Sophia
daughter
A Tobias son from
Wobbles
The Toby Touch has
played an important role
in the 2004 kid crop
through all the members
of his family who have
recently joined our
herd, but Liveoak has
laid a path of shining
gold since the day we
brought him to the
Divide. He truly
deserves a special
section in our Herd
Book.
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The Legacy
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Every kid from Liveoak has a
special quality. No matter
which mother it comes from
you can pick out the Liveoak
kid because it has a certain
shine and presence that make
it stand out from the crowd;
it has width, meat and a
self-confident stance.
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Every time we look at
another Liveoak kid we
resolve all over again to
use him as heavily as we
can. His heredity carries
through dependably which is
the most important
characteristic of a herd
sire. We are thrilled with
the Legacy of Liveoak.
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These two
pictures were
taken soon after
Liveoak came to
live on our
ranch at about
six months old.
He looked like a
box because he
was so wide, so
deep and had so
much meat on his
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Liveoak stood out from
the other billy kids in
that sale group when we
first saw him. Up and
down the hill in that
pen we followed Liveoak,
marvelling over his
width, his depth and the
enormous amount of meat
on his hindquarters. We
knew from the moment we
saw him we had to have
that kid, and time has
proved that choice to be
one of the wisest we
have ever made.
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