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2010

August 9, 2010 - Today we lost FDF Farrell Fields Honor Time. Time was approaching 11 years of age and we were unable to save him. The heat and his age were against him I suppose.

Time was the best udder buck we ever owned ( he had four Permanent Champion daughters in our herd) and the late Steve Richter made the claim that "if you want an udder buck use this one" at a Oberhasli Speciality show where Time's daughters placed 1,2 and 3. Before we owned him we had beautiful bodies but needed better udders. That was what he did for us. Many of his offspring were appraised with excellent udders and it became common for us to get best udder at shows with his does. We were always pleased the Farrell offered him to us as a kid many years ago.

 We had him collected several times so his genes will be around for a long time and we will still be breeding him A/I to the does we had originally planned for him to service this Fall.

Champions finished in the last 12 months (6):

Blue Ridge Tamara - Lamancha

Blue Ridge Venus - Nubian

Blue Ridge Lady in Waiting - Oberhasli

Blue Ridge Xtraordinary - Oberhasli

Blue Ridge Wine And Roses - Oberhasli

Blue Ridge Going to Xtremes - Oberhasli

Linear Appraised Excellent in 2010:

Blue Ridge Tamara - 92

Blue Ridge Wendy -91

Blue Ridge Xandi -91

Blue Ridge Coppertop -90

Blue Ridge Royal Tiara -91

Blue Ridge Xtraordinary - 90

Blue Ridge Xquisite Satin -90

Blue Ridge Virtusso - 91

Blue Ridge Thea -90

Central Maryland Dairy Goat Show 

July 10, 2010

Our Nubian Xquisite Satin got her second Grand Championship at her second show. Our Oberhasli Yoshe took Grand and Dutchess took reserve. Our LaMancha Yosenia took Reserve

Virginia State Dairy Goat Assocation (VSDGA)

June 5, 2010

We took two Oberhasli milkers and two LaManchas:

LaManchas

Xandi took Grand Champion in one ring

Yosenia took first udder in one ring

Oberhasli

Yoshe took Reserve Champion in both rings and first udder in one ring

Memorial Day Show MDGA/SDGA 

May 29, 2010

This show has two rings one run by the Maryland Dairy Goat Assn and the other by West Virginia.

In the MDGA  ring we won:

Seniors

Lamancha

Grand Champion with Xandi

Oberhasli

Grand Champion with Lady in Waiting

Reserve Champion with Yoshe

Best in Show with Blue Ridge Xandi (LaMancha)

Juniors

Lamancha

Reserve Champion with Zoey

Nubian

Grand Champion with Zofia

Oberhasli

Grand Champion with Zenith

In the West Virginia (SDGA) ring we won the following:

Seniors

Best in Show with Blue Ridge Wendy (Lamancha)

LaMancha

Wendy Grand Champion and Yosenia Reserve Grand Champion

Nubian

Yulene won Reserve Grand Champion

Oberhasli

Lady in Waiting took Grand Champion and Lady Yasime took Reserve Champion.

Juniors

Lamancha

Reserve Champion with Zoey

Nubian

Reserve Champion with Zofia

Oberhasli

Grand Champion with Zenith

Grades

Reserve Champion with Zafirah

May22, 2010

We just completed  our annual linear appraisal scoring 15 two year old first fresheners and 18 older does (total of 33). We had a total of 26 does score 87 or higher, 19 that scored 88 or higher, and 9 that scored 90 or greater. Of our older does 4 scored 90, another 4 scored 91 and one scored 92. We also had a total of 13 of our older does score an E in Mammary.

2009

Blue-Ridge Titus

Our Oberhasli Titus now has four permanent daughters in our herd,  they are: Vanessa, Wine &Roses, Xtraordinary and Going-to-Xtremes. 

New Junior Herdsires

We have two new herdsires: one is a Nubian (Zeus) from an A/I breeding of our Champion Venus, the other is a LaMancha (Zulu) another A/I breeding out of one of our Champions (Tammy). Both will be used extensively this year to see how they prove out.

The Great Frederick Fair

We finished Going-to-Extremes when she won her third leg here.

Central Maryland Dairy Goat Assn. July 11

At the Central Maryland show we won:

Oberhasli - Blue Ridge Xtraordinary won senior Grand completing her championship and Blue Ridge Going to Xtremes was Reserve. In the Juniors Blue Ridge Lady Yoselin went Grand while Blue Ridge Yoshe was Reserve.

Lamancha - Blue Ridge Tamara was senior Grand completing her championship and in the Juniors Blue Ridge Yosenia was Grand and Best-In-Show Junior.

Alpine - Blue Ridge Yuvette was Junior Grand Champion.

Maryland DGA June 27th

At the Maryland two ring show we won:

Oberhasli Milkers- Took Grand in one ring with Xtraordinary and Grand in the other with Ging to Xtremes. Her Xcellency was Reserve Grand in both rings. On the Junior side we won Grand in one ring with Dutchess of York (pulled her) then won Grand in the other ring with Yolanda.

LaMancha - Tamara won her class in both rings while Yoko Ono won the Junior Grand in one ring and was scratched from the second ring as is our policy when they win.

Nubian - Venus won Grand and Best of Breed in both rings completing her chamionship. Yulene won Junior Grand from the first ring and was scratched from the second since she had already won her dry leg.

Virginia State DGA show May 30th

We took two Oberhasli milkers to the VA State two ring show. Wine and Roses won in the first ring completing her championship. In the second ring we took Grand with Xtraordinary getting her her first championship leg

SDGA/MDGA Memorial day show

We went to our first show in Leetown (2 ring SDGA/MDGA) show and here are the results:

Seniors

Oberhasli: Xtraordinary went Grand and Her Xcellency went Reserve in both rings.

Lamancha: Tamara won Grand finishing her Championship then went Best-in-Show in one ring, Xaviera took first in her class in one ring and Xandi took first in the other ring.

Nubian: Venus went Grand and Titian Beauty went Reserve in both rings.

Juniors

Oberhasli: Yolanda went Grand and Yoshe went Reserve in both rings

Nubian: Yulene went Grand in both rings

Lamancha: Xpensive taste went Grand in both rings

2008

Great Frederick Fair (September)

Our Nubian yearling Xquisite Satin went Grand Champion and Best-In-Show over 150 Juniors. Our Oberhasli Western Sky went Reserve Grand Champion. Our Oberhasli Junior Going to Extremes went Grand Champion. 

Linear appraisal

We just completed our linear appraisal scoring fifteen 2 year old first fresheners and three older does. Of the fifteen two years olds, six scored 89 (cannot give a first freshener higher than 89), and three scored 88. Of the  three older does, two were 90 and the other was a 91. Finally eight out of 18 does scored excellent in mammary. Our overall average for all does scored was 87.6.

2008 National Show Louisville, KY

We took six does to Nationals and five of the six made the cut.

Oberhasli - Wine and Roses was 8th place two year old while our older doe Shannon was 9th place five year old. Our dry yearling Xalted Lady was 7th place.

Grades - Thea was 8th place in her class while Virtusso was 7th.

June 28 Maryland Dairy Goat Association show

We took Grand and Reserve Oberhasli in both senior and junior rings but there were not enough to be official. We did get Best-in-Show in one junior ring with Xpensive Tastes our LaMancha yearling.

June 14 Penn Dairy Goat Association show

We took two two year old first fresheners and two yearlings to our first trip to this show in PA near State College. Blue Ridge Wine and Roses took Grand in both rings and took Best-of-Breed in another beating two permanent champions. Blue Ridge Her Excellency took Grand in one ring and Best-In-Show as well, then she was Reserve in the other in the Junior show.

2008 Memorial weekend 2 ring show Leetown, WV

Oberhasli - Vanessa took Grand and BOB in both rings finishing her championship, Stella was Reserve in one ring and Wine and Roses was Reserve in the other to Vanessa. We took no Juniors.

LaMancha - Xaviera took Grand in one ring winning her dry leg. Vanity took first place 3 year old in both rings and Wendy was first and Windflower 2nd place two year olds in both rings. Valentine was Reserve in one ring.

Grade - Tina took Grand in one ring and Reserve in the other, Xactly Right our dry yearling was Grand in Both rings and was Best-in-Show in one ring.