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Jade was a wonderful foundation Sable Saanen doe from Trinity Valley Ranch in Deer Park, Washington.

She is a stunning girl, but even better than that was her personality.

The first time I met Jade, she had just been hauled 8 hours across a mountain in the back of a stranger's truck, alongside a kennel full of unfamiliar dogs. When I went to unload her in a gravel parking lot next to a major highway, she was utterly unconcerned. She strolled past the dogs, glanced at the traffic, and promptly made fast friends with my daughter.
Normally when next to a highway, I keep complete control over all animals, but Jade was so calm that I let my daughter take her around the parking lot while I chatted with the transporter.

When I got her home, it was the same thing. She checked out the other goats, butted a few heads, then got to her serious work. Eating. And that was that.

My only complaint about her, was that her milk production wasn't what I expected from such a power-packed pedigree. Some of that could have been the way I feed (a simple local rolled grain mixture to keep the milk tasting sweet and pure), or the fact that she was used to a different climate on the other side of the state. She still produced over a gallon a day as a second freshener, but her pedigree... Jade's paternal granddam is Klisse's KOOH Fifth Avenue, the National, All-Time Milk Production Record Holder in 2016 with 5870 pounds!
Jade didn't end up with those milky genetics coming through, but she got a show-stopping build. Her topline was so straight that I could judge a level on it... Absolutely gorgeous.

I decided to keep a buckling out of her to be my new herd sire, and she gave me triplet doelings. Brat... You won't hear me complaining about doelings though. I retained all three!
I ended up selling one as a yearling due to an attitude problem (no idea where THAT came from) and freshened the other two. Both had nice builds and udders, so I picked the one with the better rear udder arch and sold the other to a dear friend. It's so hard not to keep them all...

Jade is now living with a friend of mine who raises Sables and Guernseys (separately, instead of crossing them like I do!)