05/19/2026
Oh what a difference a year can make! If I hadn’t watched the transformation of this doe myself you would never convince me these pictures are of the same animal. The first three are from last year when Vixey was a 3y/2f and she had twin bucks and was milking just over a quart a day. She appraised at GVVV 85 about two weeks before these pictures taken and she is at about 14 hrs full in each of these sets of pictures. I knew she had all the right parts for her udder but to be honest I was really disappointed that it didn’t come in better when she was 3.
The last three pictures are just a couple weeks ago as a 4y/3f, she freshened with twin does this year. I was going back and looking for pictures from last year because she had originally been on my sales list for this year and after she freshened I was trying to figure out why I would have wanted to sell this doe. My plan for her this year had been to hopefully FINALLY get a doe from her and then retain the doe and sell her. Well now she is staying and I’m retaining BOTH of her does. I might let one go next year if she has more than one. Maybe.
In addition to how lovely her udder looks this year she has also been super productive peaking right at a 1/2 gallon a day which I'm always thrilled when a doe reaches that mark because I do not feed alfalfa. My does get grass hay and pasture and I add senior horse feed and calf manna to the 14% pellet/alfalfa pellet feed mix that my whole herd gets. No super special treatment around here for milk production.
Sometimes patience really pays off and when I tell people that this doe line ages like fine wine this is what I mean. I will never write one of them off before their 3rd freshening again.
