Herd History
Willow-Lane Dairy goats started in July 1984 when Daniel decided to
get a dairy goat. It was just a 4-H project for a couple years but
quickly turned into a herd. We now have a very competitive and
productive herd of 59, Saanens and Nubians. We have shown at shows in
Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nebraska, and California. |
First Place Dairy Herd at 2002 Nubian Specialty Kristen, Betsy,
Lindsay, Suzy
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| Showing and participating in DHIR helps us to
know that our herd is competitive and reaching our goals. Our does have
received several National Top Ten record awards. The highlight of 1994
was when Elizabeth's doe "Ivory" won National Junior Champion
Saanen at the ADGA National Show in Nebraska. |
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At the 1995 National Show in Salem, Oregon,
the herd did very well, with the Nubians winning 7th place Best Three
Females, 7th place Dairy Herd, and 2nd place produce of Dam from our
foundation doe, "April"! |
| Her last daughter, also named April was the
11th place 4 year old in a huge class of the best does in the country,
and also won the 1995 ADGA National Show Nubian production awards for
Highest 305 day lactation, for BOTH milk and butterfat! |
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In the Saanen breed, Quinever's Produce of Dam
was 4th place. Willow-Lane Legacy Genevieve, the 7th place Saanen Jr.
kid was accepted and sold in the Colorama sale. |
| Genevieve's dam, Stacey (Daniel's favorite
doe) won the 1995 ADGA National Show Recorded Grade Highest 305 day
lactation in BOTH milk and butterfat, AND the highest LIFETIME RECORD in
BOTH milk and butterfat! |
| In 1996-98 we didn't show any goats at the
Nationals since the shows were so far away. In 1997 we attended shows in
our area and the goats had many champion wins. In 1998-2000 we were
building a grade A milking parlor, so we only showed at the Utah State
Fair and The 99 ADGA National Show in Sacramento, California. At the
National show the does had some very impressive placings! |
Ellenore
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| At the 99 Utah State fair we had BOB Nubian,
BOB Saanen, BDIS, BUIS and won the Premier Breeder of Show award. At the
2000 State fair we had the BOB Nubian and BOB Saanen. Even though the
state fair was our only show, we were very happy when Ellenore was one
of the Top Ten Breed Leader Saanens, ranking #4 in Milk, #2 in
Butterfat, and #4 in protein. |
| Sabrina followed in the footsteps of her mother ranking #6
in the Top Ten Nubian Breed Leaders. |
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| In 2001, we also only showed at the Utah
State Fair. We were happy to have some champions in each breed but we
miss the days when we attended many shows each season. We wish we could
have shown at more shows in 1998-2001 to finish some more Championships
of the does but it wasn't possible with our schedules and the work on
the dairy. |
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We finished the dairy and received our Grade A
permit in November 2000. We are still working on product development and
marketing, two more full time jobs in addition to raising the goats. |
| Working on product development and marketing
has taken and continues to take a lot of time. Nearly all that
work has come from Ron, Jeanette, and Richard. This increased time
needed marketing and Dan's job as a Dairy Cow Veterinarian in Southern,
CA has really limited the amount of showing we can do. Margaret
got married and is now living in Georgia with her husband Jason and
daughters Jade and Elise. Elizabeth is attending Veterinary School
at Washington State University. This leaves a
void for the showing crew. |
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| t is difficult to finish does when you only
show under three judges per year but we still finished three does in
2004, Beatrice, Darlene and Cassandara. Cassandra took the whole
State Fair winning GCH, BOB, BUOB, in the Recorded Grade division, then
went on to win Best Doe in Show AND Best Udder of show, AND she had the
highest point ranking in the official one day milking
competition! We were very pleased to win another Premier
Breeder award at the 2004 Utah State Fair. |
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We have decided to keep a smaller herd of very
high quality does for the dairy rather than a huge herd. Since we
maintain a small herd of mature milking does, we will be selling most of
our kids again this next year as well as some milking does. This is your
chance to take advantage of superb quality dairy goats at reasonable
prices. |
| We usually don't sell many mature animals
but, if you are interested in a mature doe or buck, make us an offer and
we will consider it. The following pages are of does we have, bucks we
use, and some information we felt was most important. Our breedings are
carefully planned to improve the kids over the dam. If you want
additional information on why we thought the breeding would work well,
and/or color pictures of the animals, please let us know. |
| We have official milk records on all the does.
Our herd goal is to produce dairy goats that are just those, DAIRY
goats. Our ultimate goal is a herd of GCH
does that each milk over 3,000 pounds with high butterfat and protein. |
Stacey
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| Over the years many of our favorite old
champions passed away. GCH Dan Jackie's Stacey, GCH Willow-Lane Stacey's
Quinever, GCH +*B Singing Spruce NES Shogun, GCH Cliffose K July, GCH
+*B Capricorn Three Ti Excalibur, GCH Willow-Lane
April, GCH
Willow-Lane Alana, & GCH Willow-Lane
Ellenore, are on our website for information since they are the
progenitors to our current herd. |
2002 Utah State Fair
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