Tiny Colors Farm

BUCKS / BUCKLINGS:Tiny Colors Marvel's Ironman, born 04/12/2008 by Take Heart Blueberry Wine out of our old-fashioned herd queen, Car-Lin Marvel.  Marvel has a very nice udder which has held up superbly over the years, not losing one bit of attachment and developing a capacity that rivals my mid-size goats.  She's a power built doe with a traditional look (means she carries herself like an old matron should - hehehe) and a very tight front-end assembly, especially for as very WIDE as she is.  Again, Blue has his mother's great genetics including that udder so I look for this gorgeous black, white, brown and blue-roan buckling to really add several good things to his new herd.  If I wasn't cutting back so severely this boy would definitely be staying and in fact may stay depending on who else sells first!  Again, he'll do just fine in the show ring although he hasn't the completely outgoing personality as his brother Chance and is more of a laid-back lover-boy temperament like his dad.  Then again, when I've taken Blue to shows he never so much as turns a hair, taking everything in stride and staying very calm so this maybe just the sweet buck for you.   UPDATE: Ironman is coming into his own now and I will be putting two does in with him for May 2009 kids so watch for those, too!

Tiny Colors SS Moonshadow, born 05/06/2007 by Desertwinds SN Sand Storm out of McConnell's Ruffles, a Caesar's Villa-bred doe that's long, power and a nice milker to boot.  I would have preferred larger teats on this gal and more femininity in her face but putting her on the extremly dairy and angular Sand Storm seems to have corrected that almost-coarse look.  Moonie has his dam's long body and deep heart girth combined with his sire's tight front end and nice brisket.  Because he's a Sand Storm son he's taking his sweet time growing up, being a slow grower at every turn just like all the 'men' in that line.  His added bonus is a nice color; he has black, brown, white, tan, some moonspots and some roaning.  Again, this is one I'd love to keep and in fact will be putting him into the breeding shed with two of my own does until he sells.  I just need to make sure I only keep the boys I can safely evacuate in case we have another bout with wildfires and so sadly this boy goes on the list.  He is ready to go and priced to move at $400.

   

he really is level, he just was more interested in Daisy over by the fence flagging for the boys - gotta love those bucks!

Vista's Heir Apparent (Saanen) - by Old English Emperor out of Vista's R2D2, this boy is TALL!  He's also wide and very angular, being a complete package right down to his adorable face with it's cute Bobby Darrin curly lock.  We've bred Harry to several of our full-size girls and he really produced some nice kids, although the one Saanen doe we put him with did not end up taking (she was stressed from the wildfire evacuation).  We love Harry and will keep him if we don't find the right home for him (and he can be wethered for pack goat if someone would prefer) but we now have his full sister's son by Old English Jack's Son and want to keep that new buck as well, so unless I can figure out how to keep hubby from noticing the buck pen has TWO full-sized white goats in it, I have to sell this handsome guy.  He's got some nice udder genetics on both sides (his sire's family can be seen at http://mannmaid.com/) with his mother being one of those 'gallons per day' milkers we love to have around.  Her teats are spectacular; just the right size and texture with huge orifices, which is obviously one of my 'must-have' features in an easy milker.  This boy is also priced to sell and has a good discount as I really have no idea what an unproven (in the ring) Saanen should sell for so please make a reasonable offer by email or telephone and we can go from there!

   

Harry and his buddy Moonie are trying to talk me into letting them visit the girls!

DOES:

I don't generally sell dry yearling junior does but in an effort to shave down the herd numbers I'm offering a few does that are young and yet to be bred (but can be before they leave) in addition to the proven brood does I've reluctantly listed:

Fiorito's Licorice, born 04/24/2004, by Mabel's Meadow Tango out of Take Heart Saltwater Taffy.  This girl really IS a very easy-to-milk doe that fits nicely in our herd, is a blend of dairy and width, nothing extreme in any direction.  She's small but can and has safely given birth to and raised healthy quads so she really is an asset to the herd.  However, I did just sell her mother and sister, have her daughter, her grandmother and two aunts still in the herd so she must go.  She has a nicely-shaped udder with good attachments and a very nice MSL, good capacity but not the largest, no meat at all in that udder and milks out completely flat.  Black with a roaned broken white belt, she usually puts plenty of color on her kids although this year her quads were all black.  Very soft udder skin compensates for the slender but not-too-short teats, so for a small-handed milker she'd be perfect.  It's hard to get a good picture when all the girls want is snuggles

UPDATE: Since this doe gave us such nice kids, she may stay here once she's bred (if she doesn't sell before the end of August, that is) as she's super-easy to milk and a very good mom who has nice, sweet babies.

LARGE BREED DOES:

Many of these girls are for sale because they're sisters of my full-size Saanen buck, Harry. 

Vista's JarJar, born 05/09/2006, by Old English Emperor out of Vista's R2D2.  This nice girl is just that, a nice girl with a nice udder (needs larger orifices, though, but as a FF I'm inclined to give her another chance as her mother is a dream to milk) and good body shape and a nice, deep heart girth.  She's also got a long rump and good angulation, not as wide as her 2007 full sister but I think she's going to end up taller so that's a fair trade.  She kidded with buck/doe twins.  I like this girl a lot but have her dam and sister as well as her brother and have no need to keep this doe as I have nothing to breed her with right now.  $200

Vista's Royal Salute (Sallie), born 05/05/2007, by Old English Emperor out of Vista's R2D2 - this girl is growing nicely and is very level across the topline, especially on the move but even just standing in the yard looking gorgeous.  She did not get bred as a yearling because I didn't have a full-sized buck that wasn't a full brother or nephew of hers but I look to breed her this Fall if she doesn't sell before then.  She can be bred to a Nigerian buck (for mini-Saanens) before she leaves if desired.  $200 junior, $225 bred to Nigerian, $250 bred to Saanen or other full-size buck

Midstokke's Wild Sadie Lady, born 2006, a nice ADGA Saanen  that has given us an adorable singleton and was very nice to milk.  This girl is a fairly good-sized Saanen with a better body capacity than I'd expected from her - she took an extra year to reach full size but now is one of the biggest girls in the herd and BOY does she produce!  She's also a very sweet doe that isn't top or bottom in the herd and gets along with everyone.  I do think Sadie'd prefer a smaller herd, though, so she can be her normal laid-back self.  She is an easy breeder, easy keeper and very easy to milk having large, soft teats and those great orifices I really look for.  She'd be a keeper except that I think she likes smaller herds.  If enough of my other girls sell she's definitely got a home here.  $250 dry or $300 bred to Vista's OE Heir Apparent.

UNREGISTERED GOATS:

We have available the following mixed-breed or purebred-but-not-registered goats, again so we can get our numbers down to what will fit in the crates, trucks and trailers in case of fire evacuation.  All of the does in milk have been milked and do well unless otherwise noted, all the males are or can be wethered and ALL are handled extensively by senior citizens, children and visiting school groups so they are all familiar with and work well with people.  Some of these goats have horns and a few need to be in homes where they can be out in fields for browsing / brush clearing.  There are also a couple that can go as meat producing does as they have huge, muscular babies every time.  Most of these goats were born here and have been with us since babyhood.

Dash and Dot, twin Snubian doelings that somehow got missed when we disbudded (they hid amongst the ordered-with-horns-for-brush-clearing wethers) and so now have the cutest little horns above those comical airplane ears.  These girls were born in March and should be rather good-sized, are quieter than their mother Delilah (purebred Nubian) and have her great milk with their Saanen Sire's good teat genetics.  Not that Delilah's small teats are a problem, they're actually pretty good now that she's a third-freshener but I would prefer larger orifices and a quieter goat (grin).  Since Harry's mother R2 has almost no voice that we've ever heard AND fabulous teats, we hope for great things out of these girls.  Priced individually at $175 each or $275 for the pair, they're ready to go now.   Here they are at just hours old.    best if they go together and so will be discounted if sold as a pair.

Tiny Colors Eleanor's Rigby, born April 08, 2008, she's a Saanen (Harry) x Nubian (Eleanor) cross, in milk currently (July 4th, 2009) and with a very attractive half-Nigerian (Chance) wether at her side, this girl has a good shape to her udder and is very easy to milk with soft, good-sized teats that are perfectly placed.  As a FF with a singleton she doesn't produce quite as much as her dam but is keeping up the production nicely with twice-a-day milking and looks to be in milk for quite a while.  She also behaves very well on the milkstand and is an easy keeper, super-sweet and as friendly as a bottle baby.

Tiny Colors White Rose, born April 2008, Saanen x Alpine (Jasmine) this big white girl is also friendly, going to be a good milk producer with lots of capacity from her parents.  She may or may not have her mother's very large teats but her mother has nice orifices and produces a lot of milk per day, is milking through for more than a year now and her sire's mother is also milking through having last freshened in 2007.

Tiny Colors Glitter, born 02/2006, this unregistered purebred Nigerian (out of Taffy by Harvey) and her companion / brother (a large, gentle wether named Gabriel, also for sale) went to a good home but are back now looking for a new home as their humans are going through a divorce and are unable to care for them.  Glitter is black with scant white and roaning and can be bred before she leaves.

All our goats are up to date on vaccinations, have been disbudded (unless otherwise noted) and we're just waiting for test results on this year's CL / CAE / Johnnes tests although we've never had a positive goat, ever!

We are also adding a meat goat herd; my youngest son has decided he wants to breed some meat breed girls for their creamy milk and to sell the kids to the butcher, who made him a fantastic deal on last year's meat wether.  To that end we've added three more Boer and Boer x Nubian doelings and will be breeding them (and our current Nubian x Boer) to a nice thick Boer buck later this Autumn so watch for meat kids next Spring out of  Eleanor (Nubian),  Cinder, Cloud, Storm and Wind (last 4 are Boer / Nubian crosses and are polled) and a couple of our other large-breed does.

NEW:  If you desire a particular goat that is not ready to leave yet (too young, too close to freshening, etc.) we do ask a 20% deposit to hold that goat and if you want any baby or babies to have their horns left on we ask a 50% deposit because if you change your mind too late, we then have to find a home for a goat with horns and that's not as easy in some cases.  Also, if you do want horns left on we need to know this before the goat(s) in question turn about 10 days old as that's when some of the boys need to be done (girls usually a week later).  For a first-time goat owner that will be milking their does and having small / young children in with the goats we recommend disbudding your goats and will do so as part of the purchase price.