Sunrise Creek Farm

Our claim to fame will not be for producing doe kids!  Pauline produced another single buck kid, but oh what a handsome and artistically marked boy this is!  Bandit is masked on both sides and looks like he is hand painted.

If you are interested in purchasing this little whether that was born in December, 2009, please check our for sale page for details.  His affectionate nature will make him a great pet and his good looks will make him a great 4-H show project for an up and coming showman. 

Bandit will be even smaller than his mother, Pauline, pictured above.  His sire's picture is at the bottom of this page.  He is of mostly Nigerian decent and you can learn more about how he came to be by reading the rest of this page.  Bandit is from a herd that has always been annually CAE tested negative.

In the spring of 2008, our family held a discussion as to where we wanted to go with the dairy goat program.  The guys all decided that they wanted to focus on breeding Miniature Alpines so that meant the Toggs had to go.  Our new herd starter is Arctic Light's Jazzy. 

Jazzy is a first generation Mini-Alpine.  This means that her dam was a registered purebred Alpine doe and her sire is a registered purebred Nigerian Dwarf.  The goal is to consistantly produce a line of dairy goats that look and perform like the standard size, but maintain a smaller stature to meet the needs of small acreage farms and ease of handling and care. 

Jazzy sports a tightly attached udder that produces a steady 4 pounds (minimum) of milk daily.  Since she is a first time freshener that produced a single doe kid, we expect that she will produce more on her second freshening.  Despite her small size, she has full size teats that are easy to milk.  Because of her Nigerian sire, she produces a milk that is higher in protein and butter fat than a standard Alpine.  Her milk is sweet and wonderful!

For Jazzy's first freshening, she was bred to a Nigerian buck.  In January of 2008, she produced a single doe kid that was fast and easy to deliver.  This time around, we are looking to breed her to another Miniature Alpine to produce the second generation of the project. 

Once we have the third generation and meet the breed standard, the goats will be registered as "American Miniature Alpines".  It takes six generations, with the last three consistantly meeting the standard before the goats can be registered as "Purebred Miniature Alpines".  As you can see, we have a ways to go!

Jazzy checks out her newborn daughter, Pauline.

"I'm here, Mom.  What do you think of me?"

Pauline grew up to be as great an asset as her dam.   She started out just plain adorable with a clear and perfect heart on her back, but later proved her true worth when she started putting milk in the bucket.  We won't be selling her after all.

Although she is shorter in stature than Jazzy, she too developed a beautiful udder with teats that are easy to milk. 

Pauline and Jazzy are both daughters of Arctic Lights Paxson.  Pauline was bred to 24 Carrot Gold, owned by Karline Brouillette. 

Pauline gave birth in March of 2009 to a single buck kid....awe darn! 

This buck kid was never dehorned (what were we thinking!), and the older he got, the handsomer he became.  He is so conformationally correct and comes from lines that sparkle from so many milk stars that we decided to keep him long enough to breed back to both does.  Nothing like beauty and practicality all wrapped up in one pretty package!

This is a current picture taken in September of the buck kid at age of 6 months.  Hasn't he changed since March?  Imagine how nice his kids will turn out.  And we won't have long to find out!

Pauline came into heat and a breeding was successful first time around.  We just got the lab reports back that confirmed her pregnancy.  She is due to deliver on this Christmas Eve.  Right now Pauline is only 3 months pregnant, with a little over 2 months left to go. She is already barreling out sideways so we quit milking her to give her a break.  If I had to guess, I would say she is going to have more than one kid this time......and there had better be a doe in this batch!

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