Dancer is so graceful!
She has a loooong body and long ears, and is F4. We’re so excited about her bloodlines. She is yet another direct descendent of legendary BlackBerry goats.
Her first freshening udder is lovely: high and tight with great teat placement and a strong medial. It’s productive, too. We believe that she’ll get her milk star as a first freshener.
Dancer Growing Up
Dancer’s Registration
Dancer’s Udder
We are very excited about Dancert’s FF udder. She freshened with twins, delivering them flawlessly by herself, and has been a great mom.
This picture is of her first 12-hour separation, about three weeks fresh. She seems to be well on course for her milk star in 2024.
Dancer’s Dam Line
BlackBerry’s Bell is the Ball
She is a first freshener in 2022. She had twins, and Tiny Dancer is one of them. Below, see udder pictures.
Her dam, BlackBerry’s Shakespeare’s Juliet, is pictured below.
Her sire is BlackBerry’s Moon Man, also pictured below.
This is Bell’s FF udder.
The top left fill is 14 hours at about 2-3 weeks fresh.
The lower right fill is 12 hour fill and more like two months full.
Bell’s Dam
BlackBerry’s BH Shakespeare’s Juliet
56.66% Nubian/43.34% Nigerian
Sire: Blackberry’s Houdini
SS: Cornerstone Farm Moon Light
SD: Blue Oak’s Black Magic *P
Dam: VMCH Soaring Hearts First Lady *P
DS: Echo Hills Bravo *B
DD: Soaring Hearts Lady Gaga
Bell’s Dam’s Dam
Soaring Hearts First Lady *P
Her sire is FMCH Echo Hills Rio Bravo *B
Juliet’s sire is Blackberry’s Houdini.
Bell’s Sire
Blackberry’s Moon Man +*B
Sire: Paradise Peter +B
SS: Paradise Zeus
SD: Blue Oak’s Piper Cub
Dam: Paradise Spirit *P
DS: Paradise Orion
DD: Paradise Poppy
Paradise Spirit *P
This is Moon Man’s dam.
Blackberry website: “Spirit earned her milk star as a second freshner. She had an impressive 9.4% butter fat and 8.5lbs of milk. Spirit also has placed Reserve Grand Champion 3 times.”
Dancer’s Sire Line
Green Gables World Greatest Marxman *B
AKA Hawkeye
Hawkeye’s dam has her milk star(3*P), as does her dam (2*P), and his sire’s dam (*P).
Hawkeye’s dam (Green Gables B Dolly) was in MDGA’s 2018 top 5 for “Lbs. of Fat”(she was #5).
Green Gables B Dolly 3*P
Marxman’s dam, and Dancer’s grand dam.
Eliya Elmquist: “Dolly is a beautiful doe with lovely conformation, breed character and a sweet personality. [Dolly] has a VERY nice, super well attached udder with lots of milk. She is one of our top milkers She is also extremely easy to milk. I am very happy with her udder and production. At 7 yrs old she is steady at 7# a day, peaking over a gallon a day many times.”
VMCH Echo Hills Molly O’Malley 2*P
This is Hawkeye’s granddam.
Eliya Elmquist writes: “Molly, was an excellent milker giving about 7-8 lbs of milk each day and has given almost 11# in one day! Molly had a lovely udder and was super easy to milk.”
Dancer’s Kids
2024 Kids
Dancer was bred to her distant cousin, Mosaic’s Mahogany Obsidian *B, to line breed on Blackberry’s famous Moon Man. Her kids are adorable: twins, a boy (Rocketman) and a girl (Cha Cha Cha). We are retaining the doeling. (Rocketman is not photogenic at this stage!)
