We are excited to introduce our first retained herd sire, Prince Valiant.
Valiant is out of Ginger Top Farm’s Giselle *P by Joyous Farm’s Le Tigre. (Please click on the dam/sire names to be taken to their web pages.)
Both sire and dam have great milk creds. Giselle’s udder is the best in our barn, and her high nubian percentage gives this F2 boy some amazing breed character.
Valiant is lightly moonspotted, heavily roaned, and long bodied. He has sharp shoulders, but also a wide, deep chest. He seems to float when he moves. He has great angularity in his hind legs. This picture is at six months old.
Scroll down to see kids he sired in 2022.
Valiant as a newborn and youngster.
Prince Valiant’s Dam
Giselle made all three of the MDGA Top 10 305-Day lists in 2021: #8 in Milk Weight, #9 in Butter Fat Weight, and #10 in Butter Fat Percentage!
Photo credit: Foggy Fork Farm.
Giselle’s Second freshening udder.
Photo credit: Foggy Fork Farm
Valiant’s Sire
Percentages: 50/50 Nubian/Nigerian
Check out the serious MILK in this boy’s pedigree!
To see more of Valiant’s forebearers and udder pictures, please click on Giselle’s or Tiger’s names above.
Valiant’s Kids
2022 Kids
Valiant was bred to two does for his debut year: JC’s Snowdrop produced twin bucklings (and we do mean twin–they were hard to tell apart), and Bellhouse’s Magpie produced buck/doe twins.
We noticed that ears followed the dams with these kids. Snowdrop has quite a bit of ear control, and so do her boys. Maggie’s kids have long, soft, pendulous ears that are frosted, like hers.
All these kids were solid, well put together kids. We retained Maggie’s doeling, naming her Jenny Wren.
