Kidding season over!

Twist and Swamp finished out kidding season with Taxman’s kids. Twist kidded April 19 with a really pretty Cou Blanc doe kid. Merry Oaks Nuthin’ Fancy. Twist has a promising FF udder, a major improvement over her dam’s. I am not at all disappointed in her. However, I can’t have 6 2017 two year olds so Twist will most likely be sold this fall but I will certainly be keeping Fancy.

Swamp kidded April 25. She also had a single doeling (Merry Oaks ST Monday, Monday). She and Taxman’s colors combined nicely, as Monday is a chocolate Cou Blanc. Swamp’s udder is really nice too, not as much capacity as Tokyo’s but her attachments are a tad bit stronger. Monday will also be one of my 2017 dry yearlings.

That’s all the Alpines to kid for 2016, as Bam didn’t end up settling. I do have a Nigerian doe due in June, the first of our homebred Nigerians to freshen. Hopefully she is not as much of a demon as her dam is.

The Spring Show is in just 3 weeks. I’ve started clipping the Sr. does, and the Jrs are next on my list. Can’t wait to see these kids all clipped down! I’ve been very pleased with my kid crop this year, Adonis’s kids looking awesome as usual and his first 3 granddaughters not failing to impress me either.