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News:
Check out
our list of breedings on our For
Sale page!
Visit our
Semen Sales page for available semen from our
bucks.
We have 4
new champions in our barn! CH Blissberry Rock
My World, SGCH Blissberry MW
Valentina 6*M, GCH Blissberry Catch Me If You Can
5*M and GCH Kastdemur's Tongue Twister 3*M!
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Thank you for your interest in our
herd of Purebred Nubian (and a few LaMancha!) Dairy Goats. Along with
my husband Scott, I maintain a small, productive herd on our 80 acre
farm in Alexandria, Minnesota. We’re located on a beautiful section
of land with rolling hills, silver maples and large ponds. It’s hot
and humid in the summer, bitterly cold and snowy in the winter…but
we love it here!
We began
raising and breeding dairy goats shortly after receiving a Saanen doe
as a wedding gift. Although she is no longer with us, it didn’t take
long for her to instill a true love for these amazing creatures. Our
focus has always been to breed elegant, balanced animals that are
strong in general appearance with well attached mammary systems who
also have the ability to produce offspring as good as or better than
themselves in those areas. In addition to correct type, we select for
long, level lactations with high components, good health and easy
going, friendly dispositions. We are very proud of the progress that
our herd has made over the years.
We had another very successful show
season in 2010, adding four more animals to our permanent championship
lineup; GCH
Blissberry SM Victorious 3*M,
GCH Blissberry F Aloha 4*M,
CH *B
Kastdemur's Most Wanted and
CH *B
Kastdemur's Freestyle. Several other individual
animals also earned championship legs during the show season.
At the 2010 Minnesota State Fair, our herd was once again named
Premier Nubian Exhibitor, making this the eighth consecutive year we have received this honor. One of
our does, GCH Blissberry
J Alibi 4*M was named Grand
Champion, Best-Of-Breed, Best Nubian Udder and Best Senior Doe In
Show, while GCH Blissberry F Aloha 4*M
was Reserve Senior Champion and Blissberry
Va Va Voom was Reserve Junior Champion, all at the 2010
Minnesota State Fair. We also exhibited the 1st place
Breeder’s Trio, 1st place Dairy Herd, 1st place Dam & Daughter and
the 1st place Produce Of Dam. One of our senior herd sires,
CH *B Kastdemur’s
Most Wanted, had the 1st place Junior Get-Of-Sire.
In June of 2010 our herd traveled to the ADGA National Show in
Louisville, Kentucky where they competed at their 6th National Show. We couldn’t be more
pleased with how the does performed. Our National Show highlights
included: 1st place/1st udder Two Year-Old -
Blissberry Catch Me If You Can 5*M,
2nd place/1st udder Three Year-Old -
GCH Blissberry J Alibi 3*M; 7th place
Three Year-Old -
GCH Blissberry SM Victorious 3*M; 12th place Four
Year-Old - SGCH
Blissberry FM Intangible 4*M; 6th place Five & Six
Year-Old - SGCH
Blissberry Fashion Show 3*M; 8th place Seven & Older
- SGCH Lakeshore Farms
Just-Tina 5*M, 3rd place
Junior Kid - Blissberry She's So Fine;
4th place Junior Kid - Blissberry Va Va
Voom; 11th place Junior Kid -
Blissberry Devil Wears Prada; 4th place Intermediate Kid
- Blissberry Boom Boom Pow; 8th
place Senior Kid - Blissberry Rock On,
9th place Senior Kid - Blissberry Rockin'
Good Time; 1st place Junior Yearling -
Blissberry MW Terramisu, 9th place
Senior Yearling - Blissberry Ain't She
Sweet and 10th place Senior Yearling -
Blissberry SM Jamaica.
CH *B
Kastdemur's Most Wanted sired the 1st place Junior
Get-Of-Sire. Another big honor was having our own
SGCH Lakeshore Farms
Just-Tina 5*M receive the 2010 ADGA National Show
Highest 305 Milk, Highest 305 Butterfat, Lifetime Milk and Lifetime
Butterfat awards. In addition to these individual awards and placings, we also exhibited
the 2nd place Nubian Dairy Herd, 2nd place Best Three Senior Does, and
3rd place Dam and Daughter.
We have participated in Standard DHIR testing
for the past ten years and we
are very pleased to have had all of our mature does earn their milking
stars. We also have quite a few animals that have milked over 3,000
lbs and have several who received breed leader recognition the past
couple years.
Another performance program that we participate in is Linear
Appraisal. This year we had four senior does and one buck receive
scores of EX90 or higher, giving us an overall herd average of 88.8
including all senior does and bucks. We currently have a total of
twelve animals residing in the herd with final scores of EX90 or
above. We have always felt that dairy goats can truly do it all, milk,
show, appraise well and produce...and our girls seem to be proving
that it can be done.
Herd health and
management has always been a top priority for us. Our animals are fed
premium quality dairy alfalfa, as well as home grown grass and oat
hay, in addition to a 16% dairy ration. We also offer loose minerals,
sodium bicarbonate and sea kelp free choice. Our animals are dewormed
twice a year, vaccinated with CD/T, given supplemental copper boluses
and BoSe regularly as a source of selenium. The entire herd is
Certified and Accredited TB Free. During kidding season, we
monitor expectant does with the use of several barn cameras installed
throughout the doe barn. We also attend all births and promptly remove
kids as soon as they are born. Our kids are raised on a strict CAE
prevention program and penned separately from the adult goats. As a
prevention for coccidiosis, Deccox-M is added to the kids’ free
choice pasteurized milk. The herd is also protected by our Livestock
Guardian Dogs, Lily and Diesel.
We hope that you will take a few moments to
become better acquainted with our herd, and as always, if you have any
questions please don’t hesitate to contact
us.
Sara Koehn-Walberg
P.O. Box 191
Alexandria, Minnesota 56308
320-763-9399
E-Mail: ContactUs@Blissberry.com
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