Storybook’s Tiger Lily

Lily is a superior doe!

She is an elegant little girl, born in 2021. She has an outstanding brisket, well blended shoulders and a fantastic udder.

Her dam is JC’s Snowdrop 3*P and sire is Green Gables E Asher *B. She has lots of great milk genes in her pedigree. (Click on these names to see pictures and information on them.)

Lily is very sweet: friendly, but not pushy. She has a gorgous, moonspotted coat of an unusual color. She has long ears and one of our sweetest faces.

As a first freshener, she kidded with twins on her own, out in our field, in May of 2023. Her second freshening in 2024 also yielded twins: we have retained 3 of her four kids!

This is Lily’s first 12-hour fill on her FF udder. We love this udder’s height, and expect it to be very productive. Her dam easily earned her milk star, and her udder is quite similar, but not as tightly attached or high.

2023 was an off year for us with milk testing. The death of one of our prime bucks, and crippling of another due to meningeal worm meant that our breeding season was extended and we did not end up testing anyone.

Tiger Lily’s 2F udder was similar, but more full. She is on track to easily earn her milk star in 2024.

Lily was saying in this picture, “Go away!!! I want to have my kids in private!” Lily comes by this honestly. Her dam, Snowdrop, for two years running had her kids (both singletons) by herself when we turned our heads for an hour or two. This year, Lily was up on this hill with others for hours and I knew by her udder that she was near to kidding, so I watched from a short distance.

Finally, after 4 hours vigil, I went to the house for a meal and a rest. I came back out an hour later to check on her, and found two kids on the ground, cleaned and looking to nurse! Black Cherry was first out, followed by his sister, Storybook’s Sassafras. We sadly shared Black Cherry with another farm, but we have kept Sassafras who is bred and should kid in February of 2025.