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DAIRY GOATS OH YEAH!!!! HOW DID WE GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY???? CHAPTER ONE!!!! ENJOY!!!! This is our story on how we became Nubian Dairy Goat Breeders. My first dairy goat was a blonde colored doe kid with erect ears purchased from the local livestock auction when I was employed as a horseback rider there in 1981. I named her Humfleet's Fawn and she was recorded Native on Appearance Alpine. Humfleet's Fawn was breed to a local dairy goat breeders Nubian buck. She kidded with twin doe kids. Two years later I found another local breeder to bred Humfleet's Fawn to that had a Nubian buck. Humfleet's Fawn kidded with a buck and a doe which we named the doe kid Humfleet's Star. Humfleet's Star was also blonde color but with pendulous ears. We had Humfleet's Star Classified and she scored a 87 as a 1st freshening 2 year old. We went to the local dairy goat show and did very well with Humfleet's Star. At that show I won a Saanen doe kid in the raffle and then we had Saanen dairy goats. So we found a local Saanen breeder and breed this doe. This doe kidded with a buck and a doe. Not only did we become Recorded Grade breeders we became Sannen breeders too. We then decided to travel to a dairy goat show in another city in our state. In a very large class of Recorded Grades Humfleet's Star won her class as a 2 year old 1st freshener. We were so happy. We then knew we were heading in the right direction with our breeding program. At fair time that year (1987) my daughter took our small herd of dairy goats to fair and with Humfleet's Star she won Best Doe in Show. That Fall some unknown person or persons came onto our property and poisoned our dairy goat herd. With the local Veterinarians help we saved 4 dairy goats from our herd and several died. The police was called in but nobody was arrested for the poisoning. After the poisoning of our goats I believe the person or persons thought we would sell what remaining goats we had and be out of their way in the show ring. But all this did was make us mad and more determine to win. Then a local breeder decided to give us her 2 dairy goats because this person was unable to keep them. Now we had a Recorded Grade Lamancha type doe. So we found a local Lamancha breeder and breed this doe. At fair in 1988 my daughter won Best Doe in Show with the Recoded Grade Lamancha. We bought from a local Nubian breeder 2 Nubian dairy goats and purchased 3 dry yearlings from a breeder on the West side of the Cascade Mountains. We also purchased a Nubian buck from a local Nubian breeder. We took the Saanen doe that was still alive to a local Saanen breeder and had her breed Saanen. In 1990 we purchased from a local person a Saanen doe in milk named Pearl Drops Vanna. In 1991 we went to a dairy goat show on the West side of the Cascade Mountains and showed Recoded Grades, Nubians, Lamanchas and Saanens. At that dairy goat show we won District 7 Nubian Specialty Best Junior Nubian Doe in Show with one of our own breed and owned American Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kids. This does name was Humfleet's Bessie. We also won Reserve Grand Champion Lamancha Junior Doe with a American Lamancha Dry Yearling Doe named Humfleet's Scrabble. Wow what a high we were on. From that show we decided to cut the herd to only Nubians and Saanens. Showing 4 different breeds both Seniors and Juniors is just to much work at a 3 ring show. FROM GLORY TO TRADGEY!!!! HOW DID WE GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY???? CHAPTER TWO!!!! ENJOY!!!! This is chapter two of our story on how we came to raising Nubian Dairy Goats. We hope you enjoyed reading chapter one and looking at the pictures of the goats that started us raising dairy goats. We left off in chapter one cutting the dairy goat herd to just Nubians and Saanen Dairy Goats. We continued to attend dairy goat shows. Besides our local dairy goat show we attended a few more in the state. We watched who was winning the Nubian Dairy Goat classes at the shows and decided to purchase some better Nubian Dairy Goat Bloodlines. At one of the shows we won a Nubian doe kid in the raffle. At another show we won a Nubian buck kid in the raffle. We used the buck kid on our Nubian does. Using this bucks bloodlines was disaster for us. This bucks bloodlines didn't work well with our Nubian Dairy Goats. Nor did this buck work well with the raffle doe when she was old enough to be bred. So we went back to the drawing board as they say and watched more closely on who was winning. We narrowed down our search for the right bloodlines to just one breeder. We contacted this breeder and bought a Nubian Dry Yearling from this breeder. We showed this Nubian doe at several shows over the years receiving more then 15 Reserve Grand Champions and finished her to Permanent Championship status in 1994 when this doe was 6 years old. This doe would have finished as a 5 year old BUT was stripped of her last championship leg because another exhibiter LIED to the show chairman. When the doe that competed against our doe was disqualified that caused the numbers of dairy goats shown in the Nubian Dairy Goat breed to fall below the required 10. We were devastated and couldn't believe what just happened. Knowing that this wasn't our fault. We purchased several more does and a buck from the breeder we got the finished Nubian doe from. Our Saanens were doing well on their own winning Grand and Reserve Grand Champions at the dairy goat shows. We had purchased the right bloodlines both bucks and does and was breeding in the right direction. We were keeping our herd small and wanted to go more for the Nubian Dairy Goat. For this reason of having a hard time selling the Saanen Dairy Goats because they were white in color. At the end of the show season we sold off our last 3 Saanens in 2003 and went strictly Nubians. With 3 more Nubian Dairy Goat Does and a Nubian Dairy Goat Buck that we had purchased from our favorite breeder we were able to finish 2 more Nubian Dairy Goat Does. Along with these 2 does we purchased a Nubian Dairy Goat Doe bred that is the foundation bloodlines to many of our Nubian Dairy Goat Does we have now. We were so happy our breeding program was going the way we wanted it to go. Then February 2008 tragedy struck. Noah went to work and was given a pink slip with his final check attached. He was told his job was eliminated and there wasn't job for him to be placed in. Noah was so devastated because he had worked as a Lab Technician for 13 years with this company. So because of this we decided to cut the Nubian Dairy Goat Herd in half. We were able to place our Nubians with really good homes. We had to cut from the budget being on Milk Test and showing at Dairy Goat Shows. Three months later Noah found a job with a Airplane Factory in the next town. So we thought we were going to be ok then. Then less then a year later in 2009 tragedy stuck us again. Noah was again laid off because the company was relocating back East and there wasn't a position for him. So once again we cut the Nubian Dairy Goat Herd in half. Noah couldn't find a job and was forced to go back to college Fall term 2009 at the local community college and pursue a different profession. Noah completed his degree as a Pharmacy Technician in Fall of 2010. Noah found a job soon after. We thought everything was going really well then but we knew better then to get to much excited. On February 24, 2011 I had a really bad fall at work on a large patch of ice that was covered with a light dusting of snow. I injured my left knee, left shoulder and left hip really bad. It took me over a year to heal from my injuries. In the mean time I had to have Noah attend the goats since I was unable to do so. I was permanently disabled by the government in February 2013. FROM ZERO TO SUCCESS AND BEYOND WITH OUR NUBIAN DAIRY GOAT HERD!!!! HOW DID WE GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY???? CHAPTER THREE!!!! We knew we had to bring new bloodlines into our Nubian Dairy Goat Herd in the Spring of 2012. We also knew what Nubian Dairy Goat bloodline we wanted to purchase from as we had competed against them in the show ring and had even won against them a few times and we already had a Nubian Dairy Goat Doe in our Herd with these bloodlines. After a few emails and phone calls I went to Roy, Washington in May 2012 to purchase our New Nubian Junior Dairy Goat Herd Sire *B Remuda Mercury Power. I saw a advertisement of a 2 year old Nubian Dairy Goat Doe and I knew I needed to have this doe also. So July 2012 I went to Klamath Falls, Oregon and purchased Remuda Rhapsody Remix which *B Remuda Mercury Powers Dam's Dam's Daughter. We hadn't wanted to use our new Nubian Junior Dairy Goat Herd Sire in the Fall of 2012 but after the sudden passing of Humfleet's George Washington we had no choice but to do so. So we put our Junior Nubian Dairy Goat Does in the barn in a pen and we turned out *B Remuda Mercury Power to pasture breed our Nubian Dairy Goat Does. We were so excited when this buck settled 11 Nubian Dairy Goat Does. Born in the Spring of 2013 was 9 Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kids. We decided to keep 7 and watch how they matured and sold the other 2 Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kids. In the Spring of 2013 we then decided that we needed to bring in more new bloodlines because we only had 1 Nubian Dairy Goat Herd Sire on our farm. So I started to research Nubian Dairy Goat bloodlines. When I decided on who we wanted to purchase from I contacted the Nubian Dairy Goat Breeder. After several excuses on the reason why I couldn't come to their Nubian Dairy Goat Farm without making a appointment at least 4 to 6 weeks in advance and also being told every Nubian Dairy Goat Buck Kid I was interested in was sold and they don't accept drop ins. We don't mind possible buyers dropping by our Nubian Dairy Goat Farm and please do so. :) We always have time to talk Nubian Dairy Goats with you anytime of the day. I decided to go straight to the breeder who they had gotten their Nubian Dairy Goat bloodlines from. So I went on the internet and research that Nubian Dairy Goat Herd breeders website. I then decided after several emails and phone calls to meet this breeder at Biggs, Oregon to purchase our new Nubian Junior Dairy Goat Herd Sire Grande Ronde KHV Juniper in April 2013. This Nubian Dairy Goat Buck's dam hadn't became a Permanent Champion, Star Milker or 11th place 4 year old at the National American Dairy Goat Show yet. In the Fall we decided to breed 8 Nubian Dairy Goat Does again to *B Remuda Mercury Power and going into Fall of 2013 we had cut the Nubian Dairy goat Junior Does to 4 and sold the other 3. In the Fall of 2013 I became friends with a very nice lady who owns Cherrie Rain Nubian Dairy Goats in Yelm, Washington and she told me she had purchased *B Remuda Mercury Power's Dam 3*M Remuda RWO Boom Boom Pow!! This breeder put up for sale a bred Nubian Dairy Goat Yearling named Cherrie Rain OH 66 Carbon Copi in May 2014 and I knew I needed to purchase this beautiful doe. This doe kidded on July 13, 2014 with twin Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kids. I made arrangements to trade one of the Nubian Dairy goat Doe Kids for a Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kid born July 3, 2014. The Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kid that I was going to trade this breeder passed suddenly, so I purchased Cherrie Rain FTMB Aria. As I have built my business on being honest. In the Spring of 2014 we kidded out 8 Nubian Dairy Goat Does. We cut the Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Herd to 6 mature does. Also in May 2014 I purchased Showtime SCJ Fixation and I met this Nubian Dairy Goat Breeder at Government Camp, Oregon. We have just brought home Cherrie Rain FTMB Aria and Cherrie Rain OH BBP!! Imari. This Nubian Dairy Goat Doeling named Cherrie Rain OH BBP!! Imari is *B Remuda Mercury Power's half sister. We knew we had to have this Nubian Dairy Goat Doeling as we were made a offer we couldn't refuse and we are so excited to have a Nubian Dairy Goat Doe in our herd with black ears. I will take pictures and post her Photo Album soon. This Fall 2014 we will be breeding *B Grande Ronde KHV Juniper to 6 Nubian Dairy Goat Does and a repeat breeding of 1 Nubian Dairy Goat Doe to *B Remuda Mercury Power. We have retained 3 Nubian Dairy Goat Doe Kids born this Spring of 2014 and have sold 6 others. This is the end of our story for right now to the present day. Enjoy reading our story. Have a great day also.