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OK, I admit it...this was an impulse buy but I just
could not resist. Nita's yearling daughter, Kerri, freshened with a very
promising mammary and as Laurie and I were talking she mentioned that
she might consider selling Nita since she also has a very promising
yearling daughter out of her (Kerri's littermate sister, Rone) and was
cutting her herd numbers this spring. And THAT is how Nita came to our
herd!
It's no secret that I have admired this family line for years and who
wouldn't? Granddam, Evianna, has certainly made a name for herself with
her many national show wins and her consistent high milk production...as
well as being a stunning doe! Less known was Evianna's littermate
sister, Pav, who we owned for many years. Not as "pretty" as her sister
she still burrowed her way into my heart and I was devastated when I
lost her to a bad kidding. She also appraised EX and was on the ADGA Top
Ten list.
Nina, Nita's dam, is an SGCH doe that appraised 92
EEEE. Nita is sired by Lone Thistle Presto who has a string of lovely
daughters and appraised 91 EEE in his own right. His dam, Abracadabra,
is another beautiful general appearance doe with a stunning
mammary.
Nita is long, tall and dairy with an extremely
level topline and a stunning mammary that is high and wide in the rear
and long and smoothly attached in the fore. She is a beautiful doe that
turns heads wherever she goes. Shown in the PNW in the past, she stood
mostly 1st and 2nd with a RGCH win and a BUIS win while stale (she had a
difficult freshening in November 2018) many times standing over fresh
does.
I simply love this personable, funny doe but we found that she simply
isn't much interested in being a show goat. The trip to the Iowa Spring
Classic badly affected her and she didn't make much milk. With temps
near 100 degrees she truly suffered the entire time we were there. We
took the chance and took her to the National Show and while she handled
the trip extremely well she did NOT handle the show ring well. She
completely freaked out over the lights and the sound and the people and
let's say her behavior in the ring was pretty awful....to the horror of
my grandson who was leading her! We're thinking that this lovely doe
needs to be a home goat and that's fine. She thrives at home.
Nita finished a Top 10 record
while traveling to shows last summer but did not settle when we tried to
breed her in the fall. Despite multiple breedings, she remained open and
milking until we dried her up late this summer. We have our fingers
crossed that she settles this fall for spring kids.
After numerous breedings last
fall, Nita finally gave in and got pregnant for May kids. 10 days prior
to her due date, she started to show signs of stress so we took the
chance and induced which produced quads with the 1st kid dead and
blocking the way of all the others, including her last born little doe
kid. I was still reeling from the loss of her big sister, Tempo I'm the
Right One, to a bad kidding a month earlier so it made perfect sense to
name this beautiful little girl after her big sister, Rone. Once
she was fresh, Nita snapped out of her stress and came right to her
milk. Less than a month later she scored EX91 EEEE. A week later, I
decided to give her one more chance in the show ring (I also had to win
a bet with my grandson that I could show her!!) While her attitude
wasn't exemplary and she was very clingy to me at the show, she was 6X
1st and 2X RGCH. I promised her it was her last time to hit the tanbark
trail!!
Nita has had some history of breeding problems and was open for
2024. She will be bred to Firestorm for Febuary kids. All does retained.
Bucks $700.
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