08/14/2026
Bucks are cool and get a lot of the credit BUT strong maternal families, that just keep on going, are even cooler and are truly the foundation of a herd that produces consistently high quality kids, year after year.
This March born, dam raised triplet doeling sure gets my attention each time I see her. And her littermate sister isn’t too far behind either.
Springvalley Phoebe.
Bred up Canadian Purebreds out of my one percentage line. Their momma is Springvalley Penelope who, at a young two years old, has already dam-raised and weaned me 5 kids, twins last year as a yearling and this year’s cool set of triplets. True to her maternal line, Penelope has lots of milk and a Will to work hard as a momma. Penelope’s momma, Springvalley Peppa and her granddam Springvalley Paint It Bright, have the same qualities and both Excellent classified. Springvalley Peppa, at 6 years old, raised another super set of doelings for me this spring…so there’s more to come from this family too!
And although the pedigrees won’t show it due to an oopsy breeding years ago, that I didn’t know the sire on, that resulted in a doeling I thought “oh well, I’ll sell her as a commercial” and then she turned out too nice to sell…that commercial doeling (SVB 11D) was out of my incredible 50% foundation doe Pryme Painted Lady; VG89 and three time Canadian Percentage Show Doe Champion.
I cull out pretty heavily on what stays in my replacement pen. It’s cool to have maintained this type of breeding quality AND productivity in this doe line over so many years, and to finally have broken them into the Canadian Purebred category is pretty cool too.
