1st gen Saansey
Fern
SaanseyDoe (female)White
DOB: 5/3/20206 yrs
Fern is hands-down the easiest goat I've ever had... Never a moment's trouble in her ENTIRE life. No health issues, never a bad attitude, and was trained to the milkstand without any fuss at all.
Fern definitely takes after her Guernsey papa, being significantly daintier than her powerhouse mama. I was worried that the daintier frame might make her less productive, but as a first freshener this girl produced 7.9 to 8.2 pounds, every SINGLE day until breeding season. Hot or cold, eating alfalfa or timothy or just foraging, it didn't matter. 8 pounds, every day, like clockwork..
Now, at the start of her 3rd freshening, she's well over 10lb daily!
Plus her udder is nearly PERFECTLY balanced, with symmetrical teats and large orifices that make milking her a breeze.
Healthy, happy, EASY, and producing like nobody's business... Fern is my literal dream goat, and if I could have an entire barn just like her, I would!
If only she would give me some doelings... 7 bucklings so far! sigh.
**I bred Fern to Prince. Fingers crossed for doelings. Finally. Any doelings will be retained, bucklings will be available.
Side note: Less than 4 months after Fern kidded the first time, I was talking to Mom about the fact that I had only kept 2 first fresheners that year. Mom couldn't remember who the second one was, and when I reminded her that it was Fern, her jaw actually dropped. She had completely forgotten that Fern was a FF... Fern was already so steady, so reliable, so calm and easy, that it just didn't compute.