Champagne’s Twins

SGCH Carl B’s OH Sweet Champagne *M VEEE 91 gave us a gorgeous set of buck/doe twins this year. Both kids have beautiful top lines and are promising show prospects. It’s hard to beat their pedigree with their dam, sire’s dam and sire’s sire’s dam are all champion FS 91 does.

We have seen remarkable performance from all of our Champagne offspring both on the milkstand and in the show ring, which is why she is one of our favorite does and heavily used in our program. We have two of her daughters in our herd – SGCH Cabochon Petit Sirah 2*M VVEE 90 and Cabochon MP Glass of Brandy who earned her first Grand Champion as a Junior and is a yearling first freshener this year. We have also made heavy use of two of her sons – Cabochon XY Prosecco and Cabochon ZZ Dom Pérignon *B (2022 Elite Sire). Prosecco is producing excellent udders with his daughters GCH (pending) Cabochon PR Diamond Dust 3*M, Cabochon PR Indian Summer 3*M and, Cabochon PR Trinket 3*M all scoring “Excellent” on mammary in Linear Appraisal and his youngest, Cabochon PR Polka Dot who just freshened this year looking very promising as well. Dom Pérignon has two daughters in our herd – Cabochon DP Amber 3*M and Cabochon DP High Tide 3*M who milked over 1300 lbs as a second Freshener.

Ibn is an AI kid sired by SG Heaven’s Hollow Winter Soldier +B.  Ibn has incredibly soft dairy skin, open ribbing, a tight front end assembly and beautiful angularity. He was one of those kids that was gorgeous from the day he hit the ground. 

Ibn’s dam, GCH (penidng) Cabochon Amelia VEEE 91, is a beautifully angular doe with excellent capacity and one of the best foreudders in the breed scoring 41 on Linear Appraisal. Amelia milks more than 1,100 pounds in a lactation.

Ibn’s sire’s dam, SGCH Wyojem Wendy Kiki (EEEE 91), is a Superior Genetics Grand Champion who has many outstanding accomplishments including:
-2012 National Reserve Best Udder
-2013 National Champion Nigerian Dwarf
-2014 Top Ten Milk Production
-LA of EEEE 91 at 8 years old

Sire – Cabochon WS Ibn Battuta *B
Dam – SGCH Carl B’s OH Sweet Champagne *M VEEE 91

Dark Chocolate Doeling, R25
Black Buck, R26

Champagne’s Doeling

This breeding brings together exceptional genetics for conformation and production from both their sire and dam. Champagne is a permanent champion and a Superior Genetics designated doe with an LA score of VEEE 91. Champagne have proven her ability to produce exceptional daughters with the most outstanding being SGCH Cabochon Petit Sirah 2*M VVEE 90. I am expecting this little doeling to follow in the family footsteps.

Her sire, Cabochon SIG Marco Polo, excels in general appearance and dairy character and is sired by the 2015 ADGA Spotlight Sale Nigerian Dwarf Buck, Heaven’s Hollow Sig Sauer.  We love his front end assembly and his angularity.

Marco’s dam, Cabochon Amelia VEEE 91,  is a beautiful doe with excellent conformation and exceptional production milking more than 1,100 pounds in her third lactation.  

Marco’s sire’s dam, SGCH Wyojem Wendy Kiki (EEEE 91), is a Superior Genetics Grand Champion who has many outstanding accomplishments including:
-2012 National Reserve Best Udder
-2013 National Champion Nigerian Dwarf
-2014 Top Ten Milk Production
-LA of EEEE 91 at 8 years old

I am retaining this magnificent doeling for our breeding program.

Sire – Cabochon SIG Marco Polo AI *B
Dam – SGCH Carl B’s OH Sweet Champagne *M VEEE 91

Dam’s Udder – SGCH Carl B’s OH Sweet Champagne *M VEEE 91
Sire’s Dam, Cabochon Amelia VEEE 91

Champagne’s Triplets

Champagne delivered three little white “Mini Mes” on Sunday, April 8.  (Okay, one boy is actually gold, but it’s such a light gold that he looks white. ) The first buckling is for sale as a herd sire. Both his dam and sire’s dam have “Superior Genetics” designations and Champagne already has two legs toward her permanent championship. There is a lot of potential in these kids!

Champagne’s white & gold buckling – available as a herd sire

Champagne’s gold buckling

Champagne’s Doeling

Champagne’s triplets cuddled up in the corner

Champagne’s Triplets

Photo of Nigerian Dwarf triplet kids at Cabochon Farm in MN

Champagne delivered triplets on the afternoon of March  12th.  Kati was the primary mid-wife and she did a fine job getting all the kids off to a good start. Champagne is proving to be a good mom – attentive but not overly obsessed.

We’re excited to see how she does on milk test and are planning to retain a doeling from this breeding, but have not yet finalized our decision. We are limiting the number of kids we keep this year so our final choices will need to wait until we get the rest of the kids on the ground.

Champagne’s Buckling

Champagne with her blue eyed, chocolate doeling

Champagne’s gold doeling

Champagne Debuts as Grand Champion

Clayton's First Grand Champion Win

We started off the show season with a bang this year as our newest doeling, Carl B’s OH Sweet Champagne, took home Grand Champion Nigerian Dwarf Junior Doe at the Little Falls, MN Spring Show.  This was a very large three ring show with more than 300 does in attendance and we are very proud of both Champagne and Clayton, whose outstanding showmanship secured his first ADGA grand champion win under judge Ellen Considine.

Nigerian Dwarfs were well represented with 33 Junior does in attendance and about the same for Senior does, but I forgot to write down that number. 🙂

We showed the goats fuzzy (not clipped) because the weather had been so cold and I was very thankful for that decision on show day when it was only 53 degrees with a cold wind. Brrr! Almost everyone wore a coat over their dairy whites and it made for some pretty funny fashions in the show rings.

Caramel and Taffy stand 1st and 2nd in a class of six

We are thrilled that Nibbles’ girls, Caramel and Taffy earned 1st and 2nd place in the Jr. Doeling class of six. Taffy has been retained so she will continue her show career with us. Caramel is going to a new home where she will hopefully continue winning for her new owner, Jennifer.

Clayton milking Hurricane

Ribbons are nice, but we all know it’s really all about the milk! We brought a couple of the milking girls with us which means bringing along the milking stand and milking at the show. Clayton got to try out his new milking stand which is his own design and much lighter and easier to take to shows than the one we used to use. Clayton will be making more over the summer to sell so let us know if you need one!

Champagne Lineup
Champagne stands 1st in a class of nine senior doelings

Champagne ended up being the star for the day with two first place wins in her Sr. Doeling class of nine as well as her Grand Champion win but we are proud of all the girls and are quite happy with Glory and Dolly each placing 3rd in their classes. There was very strong competition in the milking classes and they did well hidden under all their winter fuzziness!

 

 Our 2015 Spring Show Placings:

Sr. Doeling
Sweet Champagne, 1x GCH, 2x 1st, 1x 3rd

Jr. Doeling
Caramel, 1x 1st, 1x 2nd
Taffy, 1x 2nd

2 Year Old Milker
Morning Glory,  1x 3rd

3 Year Old Milker
Dolly (Annabelle),  1x 3rd