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Kansas Bluestem Ethel 1*M

FS 85 (GGVV) @ 05-01

ADGA #N2078818

DOB: March 1, 2020

G6S Carrier (N/G)

AS1C B/N

Sire: Zao Hot Fudge

Sire’s Sire: *B Cozy Creek Golden Chrome

Sire’s Dam: Sweet-B’s Dawnflower VG86

Dam: The Prairieland Lilly

Dam’s Sire: Marmalade Cletus

Dam’s Dam: 4RS Cora Bell

Pictured as a 4yr, 4F in Sept of 2024

Ethel is a large doe who is our first homebred doe to freshen. To say that we have an emotional attachment to her, is an understatement. Ethel is a powerhouse on the stand. She is easy to milk, and puts what you feed her into the pail without losing weight. She has great udder texture and capacity, but we would like to see some improvement in her strength of rear and lateral attachments and teat length. Ethel has great body depth and dairyness. Ethel’s rump scored a 38 in the ADGA Linear Appraisal system, equating to just over 8.25” wide between her thurls. Its the widest in our herd and you can tell when you see them as a group. We'd like to see improvement in her rear leg angulation and function, as she tends to turn her hocks inward while walking. She’s not a flashy, show stopping girl, but is a great base for building up to goats that turn heads and put tons of milk in the pail. Ethel qualified for the Elite list in 2022 as a second freshener. Ethel is AS1C B/N, making her one of our foundation does for our low-casein/allergen friendly milk line. We’re excited to cross her with some tested “N” allele carrying bucks and build that portion of our herd.

COMPLETED LACTATIONS;

2025: 4-10 y/o completed 277 DIM

Milk 2235 - Butterfat 117 (5.2%) - Protein 77 (3.4%)

2024: 3-11 y/o completed 271 DIM

Milk 2261 - Butterfat 111 (4.9%) - Protein 80 (3.5%)

2023: 3-01 y/o completed: 240 DIM

Milk 1682 - Butterfat 83 (4.9%) - Protein 62 (3.7%)

2022: 2-03 y/o completed: 261 DIM

Milk 2381 - Butterfat 119 (5.0%) - Protein 87 (3.7%)

2021: 1-01 y/o completed: 345 DIM

Milk 1856 - Butterfat 103 (5.5%) - Protein 63 (3.4%)

(Adj. to 305 days: Milk 1722 - Butterfat 96 - Protein 58)

DHI Records

Ethel earned her milk star, making her a 1*M, as a yearling first freshener. Click here and input Animal ID NUUSA2078818 (make sure the “GOAT” selection is toggled) to pull up her CDCB Query and see additional data.

CURRENT LACTATION IN PROGRESS

2026: 5-10 Reported as of 49 DIM

Milk 511 - Butterfat 31 (6.1%) - Protein 19 (3.7%)

A goat standing on grass outdoors with a person holding its collar, fencing and trees in the background.

Group of goats inside a barn, with one brown goat in the center, and others in the background.

Pictured as a senior kid, November 2020

A brown goat stands inside a barn with a metal mesh platform under its hooves, a blue feeding trough around its neck, and various equipment and chairs in the background.

Pictured as a 2yr, 2F, summer 2022

Linear Appraisal Data

2025: Ethel appraised a GGVV 85 this year at 05-01 years old. This is a great permanent score for her, and we’re pleased with the result. She is one of our tallest goats, definitely one of the widest/strongest goats, and while she lacks dairyness, she makes up for it in productivity. Our hopes are that we find a buck to complement her production that will increase the dairyness of her frame, without sacrificing her strength and stature. So far, that’s proved to be a tall order.

2023: Ethel had another year of maturity on her this year and her structural conformation scores improved all around. We were especially pleased with her rump width score, as well as strength and body depth. Her udder traits did not score as well as her previous year.

2022: Ethel scored well for our herd in Body Depth, Dairyness, Rump Width, Rear Udder Arch and Udder Depth. She was actually the highest scoring Rear Udder Arch, and that is a trait we hope she passes on to her offspring. We expect that maturity will bring improvement in score in the structural categories. Overall, she’s a great base, but we certainly want to see her score and the scores of her offspring climb.

Udder Photos

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Udder- May 2021

~30 DIM, 1st Freshening

Her foreudder needs more extension and better blending. The udder texture is soft and buttery, milking down nicely. We hope teat shape and length change with maturity and through the duration of each lactation.

Kansas Bluestem Ethel, side udder view, first freshening.

Kansas Bluestem Ethel, rear udder view, first freshening.

Udder- July 2022

~30 DIM, 2nd Freshening

Ethel drastically increased production and capacity in this freshening. She’s not actually this lopsided… just chose to stand funny. Her teats are improving with maturity, but we definitey hope her offspring take teat traits from their sires.

Kansas Bluestem Ethel, rear udder view, second freshening.

Kansas Bluestem Ethel, side udder view, second freshening.

Kansas Bluestem Ethel, side udder view, fourth freshening.

Kansas Bluestem Ethel, rear udder view, fourth freshening.

Udder- September 2024

~200 DIM, 4th Freshening

We’ve noticed that Ethel’s rear attachment is not as strong and supportive, now, in her 4th freshening, as it was in her first. We’d like to breed for better longevity in her udder attachments in future kids..

Kidding Journal @ Bluestem Acres

A goat and a baby goat (kid) inside a barn with straw on the floor, with wood and metal siding in the background.

2021- We bred Ethel to freshen as a yearling because she was a big girl, already, during breeding season. She was due April 26, 2021 with kids sired by P-Nut. We had prepared a stall for her, but hadnt moved her into it yet, and had a very busy few days ahead of us. We checked her ligaments and her udder in the morning and then left for the day on April 23rd. That day brought with it a spring thunderstorm followed by several hours of light drizzle. We arrived home just after 8pm and Ethel didn’t come in for dinner, and neither did Max and Gidget. So, we went looking. We found her, a beautiful spotted buckling, and both protective guardians in the pasture, all wet and cold. He was “dry” as far as birth fluids, but damp from the rain. She eagerly followed us as we carried him to the warm barn and a stall full of straw. While we typically pull kids are birth and immediately start them on the bottle, we allowed Ethel to raise him for 48 hours due to our schedule requirements. For a young mother, she did fantastic, but also seemed quite relieved when we took over care. Her buckling, Kansas Bluestem Reese’s Pieces, is currently working in a 4-H herd in Kingman, KS. He is a G6S carrier, and is AS1C N/N.

Young brown and white goat with long ears standing on green grass in a field with trees and a trampoline in the background.

2025- This year we used an outside buck, Blissberry Macpuno Sunrise, over Ethel in hopes of getting some AS1C N/N kids. She delivered buck/doe twins at the end of January. We got our wish and the buckling was not only AS1C N/N but also G6S normal! Again her production was down a little from her triplet freshenings, but overall she still outperformed many of the other does in the barn. In April, she appraised a VVGG 85, earning her permanent score. While we will likely have Ethel appraised one more time as an aged doe, we’re quite pleased with how she has matured through the years. We bred her back for an early January kidding in 2026, which cut her lactation short but about 30 days.

2026- We bred Ethel to Food4Thought MardiGras Flasher in early August of 2025 for an early January freshening. Unfortunately, Ethel kidded twin bucks, and we did not want to retain a buck kid from that breeding. She held her body condition and hit the milk stand in stride for a coming six year old doe, and we have hopes of many more years with her in the breeding string.

2022- We bred Ethel to Amadeus for her second freshening in hopes of improving some udder traits (we absolutely love the teats on Amadeus’s dam). She was due June 11. We planned a zoo outing on June 9, and having learned my lesson from 2021, I placed Ethel in her kidding stall prior to leaving for the day, even though she wasn’t really showing any signs. I checked the stall camera about 12:45pm, and Ethel was in labor. She had a kid on the ground, and was working on the second. The zoo is about 45 minutes away from our home, and since it didn’t appear she needed my help, we finished our visit with leisure, but I kept watching the cameras. She delivered three healthy kids, all on her own, with no issues, and went to work cleaning them up. At one point, one kid managed to get stuck behind the water bucket, so I called my dad, who lives about 5 miles away, and he went to its rescue. We returned about 2:00pm, and I immediately went to the barn to check the kids… I found three doelings! Amazingly they all tested G6S normal. Kansas Bluestem Calypso (AS1C B/B) headed to Independence, KS area as the start of a new herd. Kansas Bluestem Elektra (AS1C B/B) stayed here until weaning, and now lives near Paola, KS in a small Nubian herd. Kansas Bluestem Evangeline (photo at right; AS1C B/N) stayed right here… and she’s another welcome foundation doe to our low casein milk line.

2024- Ethel was bred AI to Pruitville’s T/S Sugar Ray this year. She kidded twin bucklings on her due date, but one was malformed and DOA. The other buckling only lived about 24 hours before he passed away. We’re unsure what caused his illness, but he presented with a high fever and congested lungs. We will repeat this AI breeding in another year to try and get a doe or buck kid from Ethel. Ethel came into milk as normal, but didn’t milk with quite the volume as she did with her two prior triplet freshenings. The good news is that her congested half came back into milk beautifully, and we don’t notice a permanent drop in production on that side. Ethel milked really well until we took her out to the KS State Fair in the fall. That trip caused a drop in production, and combined with being bred back, really caused a production drop. We dried her off a couple weeks early because production was so low, but eagerly anticipated her 2025 freshening.

Ethel's triplets from her second freshening.

2023- Ethel had a date with Apollo this season that resulted in triplets born two days before her due date. We did induce her for delivery prior to her due date because she was looking very large and uncomfortable and was starting to struggle getting up and down. We administered 2cc lutalyse at midday on April 23, 2023, expecting kids to hit the ground 24 to 36 hours after her shot. She went faster than that though, and at 6:00am the next morning we checked the stall cameras to find Ethel in early labor. The first kid out, was delivered at 6:45am, but initially presented with just front legs and her head turned back. I am glad that I was there and able to push everything back in and get her straightened out. Once that initial rearranging occured, everything else happened smoothly. All told, Ethel had just over 22.0 pounds of kids in there, so we understand why she was uncomfortable. Kansas Bluestem SunkissedFreya headed to southest Kansas. Kansas Bluestem Sunkissed Eden stayed here in our herd. The third, a buckling, was retained as well for G6S and AS1C testing, but he passed unexpectedly at ten weeks old from unknown causes. Ethel came into milk wonderfully, putting 12.6 pounds into the milk pail on her first milk test, just 24 days in milk. Unfortunately, she then presented with a severely congested udder and even though we were able to treat and clear the condition, it did affect her production through the rest of her lactation. She milked for a total of 240 days and held production at about a gallon a day until she was successfully AI’d in the fall.