A Word on the Importance of Color Carriers
These does have been bred specifically for their ability to improve the fiber characteristics in a colored breeding program. These crosses have produced most of our replacement stud bucks and show string does over the years. This marks the first time we have offered any significant number of these genetically powerful does to our buyers. In short, look for the best goat you can and be color blind. The most powerful genetics may not come in a dark brown or black wrapper

Does

After achieving status as one of the top angora goat herds in the country we are shifting the focus of our farm a bit and offering some of our best nannies for sale. We will continue to be heavily involved with angoras, but are cutting back our numbers drastically and focusing more on our young stock. This is an excellent chance to own genetics that have produced numerous regional and national champions.

In general:

• CAGBA registered colored does $300-500 per head

2914 - 2001 doe who is the dam to our well known foundation sire Absolut. This doe is AAGBA registered and still very fine haired for her age. With good care she should have several more good producing years in her. $150

5070 - 2006 doe. Was 2007 CAGBA National Champion. Herself out of national champion doe and a multiple champion producing buck (Bombay x Absolut). This is a remarkable opprotunity to put a champion in your herd. CAGBA registered. $700

5053 - 2006 doe. Taupe. Was second in yearling class at '07 National show. Out of Absolut (50% registered white) and doe 4028. Great mom, has produced black, tan and dark brown kids. Big girl with years of great kids in front of her. $450

Brooks Doe - nice medium to dark red Brooks Farm doe available. High quality, hasnot been inspected for registration, but certainly can be and should be able to meet the registration standard. They do not have records, except for the last two years they have been on our farm. We estimate them to be each around 5 years old. $350

Bucks

Herd sires are available on a select basis each spring to those customers who have placed advance reservations. Prices range from $450 - 900.

Two buck kids - each by national champion doe Bombay and out of a dark brown buck. One black, one red. Each have speckled white ears. $400 each.

About our Herd Sire Selection Program

We do not sell colored buck kids! We have seen too many breeders (ourselves included in more naive times) pin their hopes on a stunning buck kid, only to have him mature into a buck that should only be meant for the dinner table. We have made a committment to select our top percentage of bucks each year and spend a year raising and evaluating their quality, selecting those that make the cut finally after 2nd shearing by using the data we have collected over the previous year. Our yearling bucks have gone through a minimum of 3 culling phases. The first phase occurs in May of their year of birth, those that don't show adequate promise are castrated and offered as pets or 4-H projects. The ones that show potential are held through first shearing. After first shearing weight and quality evaluations, another set of buck kids is castrated and the remaining bucks are re-evaluated in 1 month of hair. Those that show potential are again held, this time until second shearing when they are micron sampled and tested and again graded on fleece quality and weight. Then and only then do we make our decisions on who makes the grade to be called a Hill Shepherd Herd Sire. Out of 30-50 bucks born per year perhaps one or two per year will make the grade as a herd sire.

All yearling herd sires offered for sale have been thoroughly examined and found to meet our standards as studs after a year long selection process. They come with CAGBA registration, fleece micron report and shearing records. They are guaranteed to be reproductively sound (barring illness or injury after they leave Hill Shepherd). Any buck purchased and found to be infertile (or to have below normal fertility) will be replaced with an animal of equal value with results of a reproductive soundness examination by a veterinarian, accompanied by a statement that the animal has been maintained in good health and breeding condition and has not experienced illness after leaving Hill Shepherd.