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!
Tiger Lily’s Baby Pictures
Tiger Lily’s Registration
Tiger Lily’s Udder
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 was on track to easily earn her milk star in 2024, but we mismanaged her food early on. We hope that she will earn it this year, nursing twin boys in 2025.
Tiger Lily’s Dam Line
This is JC’s Snowdrop 3*P. She was our top producer in 2025, giving over a gallon on test for a few months during her peak. This is her 4th freshening udder. Aas you can see, her lateral ligaments and medial ligament are both strong and solid. Her udder is high and her teats are in perfect position.
To see more pictures of Snowdrop, and her sire and dam lines, please click on the link to her name above.
Tiger Lily’s Sire Line
Tiger Lily’s sire was a VERY special boy. We had first pick of the Green Gables’ kid crop of 2019, and we chose him. He was Green Gables E Asher *B. You can see his dam’s udder and other ancestors by clicking on his name here.
Sadly, we lost him to meningeal worm in the fall of 2022.
Tiger Lily’s Kids
2023 Kids
Lily was paired with Storybook’s Nonpareil. This is a line breeding on Hurlburt’s Buttercup 2*P and Green Gables E Asher *B. As her mother before her had, Tiger Lily waited until we were not looking and had her kids out in the field in the hour that I left her after a 4-hour vigil. We love her twins so much! We decided to retain her doeling, Storybook’s Sassafras, hopefully to be bred in 2024 for 2025 kids. (I wanted to retain Black Cherry, too, but found that he was too closely related to my herd to use much.)
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.
2024 Kids
We paired Tiger Lily with Mosaic’s Mahogany Obsidian *B, and I am so eager to see the udder that they produced… but I’ll have to wait two years! Lily gave us boy/girl twins, easily birthed, and beautiful, and both retained. Her boy, Storybook’s Dappled Willow, got her moonspots, while the girl is a stunning black doeling, named Storybook’s Landini.
2025 Kids
Lily was bred to Cedar Creek’s Outlaw Blues *B this year. She produced two beautiful boys! Storybook’s Polka Dot and Storybook’s Doc Watson.
