Lost Valley KW Excaliber *S
DOB: 1/16/07
9/10/10: Tested for CAE - results negative
Excaliber has joined Beth Keene's herd at My Own Private Idaho Farm but I used him on several of my nicest does before he left so hopefully I will get a nice buck and daughter or two to retain. His daughters have been consistently some of the nicest does I've bred. He will be greatly missed but I know he is going to a wonderful home.
2010 LA: 86 VG VEV (two first freshening daughters were appraised and both received scores of 88!)
A very handsome (and hairy) Excaliber is pictured above in the spring of 2010. Don't you just love his beard!
We have anxiously awaited the arrival of this flashy buckskin Kingwood son and he certainly was worth the wait. Thanks Audrey & Amy! His litter mate brother, Pegasus, was retained by Lost Valley as a herd sire. His older brother Lost Valley KW Orion *S is 1 leg away from his MCH and Orion's sister Lost Valley KW Casseopeia already has her junior leg. Hopefully Madison will pick up her last leg this coming show season and follow in both her sire & dam's hoofsteps.
News Flash! Madison finished her championship at the Houston Livestock Show and Orion won his Master Championship on 6/2/2007!
Our sympathies to Amy & Audrey at Lost Valley Nigerians on the loss of Kingwood on May 20th, 2007. He was one of the most influential bucks in the history of the Nigerian Dwarf breed and will be greatly missed.
Excaliber took 1st in Senior Yearling Bucks in the second show at the Northern Lights Dairy Goat Association's Summer Show in Marshfield, Wisconsin on June 14, 2008 and went on to win Reserve Champion under judge Emily Thompson, earning his first ADGA championship leg.
ARMCH Lost Valley Callisto, Excaliber's grand dam, just became the 2008 AGS National Grand Champion Senior Doe! Congratulations Amy and Audrey!
MCH Lost Valley KW Pegasus, Excaliber's littermate brother, was named the 2008 ANDDA All American GCH 2-Year-Old Buck!
Cassandra, Excaliber's first daughter born (out of Xplicit), freshened with a very pleasing udder at My Own Private Idaho Farm. Photo of Cassandra's first fresh udder shown below is courtesy of Beth Keene.
Shown below is the 2nd freshening udder (with kids nursing so not fully bagged) of Deb's Whisperwoods Gypsy, another Excaliber daughter. Photo is courtesy of Baa-si Farmz.
Unfortunately I didn't get an udder photo of my own beautiful first freshener Shere Country EX Suzy Q last year but will definitely get one this year.
Update: Excaliber's dam, Madison, was #9 High Milk, #9 Butterfat, #9 Protein for 2009 AGS 305 DHIR!
See his extended pedigree here: Excaliber's Pedigree
S: Gay-Mor's RA Kingwood ++ *S
SS: Stonewall's Raising Arizona ++ S
SD: ARMCH Goodwood Trillium 2*D 'E'
D: ARMCH Lost Valley RTW Madison 3*D AR2166
DS: MCH Lost Valley Ride The Wave + *S
DD: ARMCH Lost Valley Callisto 2*D 'E' AR2153 (2008 AGS National Champion Sr. Doe & 2010 AGS Reserve National Champion Sr. Doe!)
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