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Still Meadow Kinders - Breeding high quality Kinders since 2002.

06/07/2024

While not nearly as bad as some parts of the country, it’s been quite hot here in MD the past few weeks. This is how we’re surviving 🤣

01/05/2024

Two girls still looking for a new herd! Both girls are correct, wide and level. Really great udder and production potential.

Sicily - first gen doe. Comes from several generations of homebred Nubians. Pygmy sire comes from a family of lovely udders.

Gemini - 2nd gen doe. Dam comes from concentrated Still Meadow genetics. First gen sire comes from the same lines as Sicily.

17/04/2024

Babies! Minus Perry and Spring who mostly refused to cooperate 🤣

07/04/2024

Milk Test #2! I’m really happy with all the girls, although Ditto is really doing wonderfully for a first freshener 🥰

Acantha: Nubian 2yo FF 8.8 # (pictured)
Ditto: 2yo FF 6.6 #
Bounce: 2yo FF 4.5 #

31/03/2024

It’s a muddy mess out today. Kids are growing well, and girls are milking like it’s their dream job 🥰

08/03/2024

Chunky sassy babies gave me a nice photo shoot this morning 🥰

07/03/2024

Edit: Components are back! Acantha coming in at 5% fat which is fabulous for a Nubian, 5.1% for Ditto and a whopping 6.2% fat for Bounce!

First Milk Test of the year yesterday! The girls did great. Im so happy with the quality of their udders and production. Just waiting now to see what their components look like. 😍

Acantha - 7.0 #, 2yo FF Nubian (twin 1st gens)
Ditto - 6.2 #, 2yo FF Kinder (triplets)
Bounce - 4.1 #, 2yo FF Kinder (1 live twin)

27/02/2024

Babies!! Udders are coming in beautifully and I am getting ready for our first milk test of the year. All 5 girls are available. I’m keeping Perry for myself this year.

16/02/2024

Udder sneak peaks! These girls are just getting going on their first lactations, but they are looking so promising. First photo is Acantha, Nubian dam of the twin first gen girls. She is milking 7 # daily and climbing. The second is Ditto, dam to the triplets. She is milking 4.5 # daily and climbing! All 4 girls from these two ladies are available.

13/02/2024

That’s all Folks!

Bounce finished us off with twin doelings (one DOA 😞) sired by Galahad. Calling this one Spring (like the synonym for Bounce, not the season 😉)

Total 3 does, 7 kids, 6 doelings/1 buckling.

09/02/2024

Installment #2! Almost finished…

Ditto had 2 does (flashy brown and white splashed, and dark brown agouti) and 1 buck (tan with moonspots) sired by Pretzel.

EDIT: We have a name change! I rarely change names, but Remix wasn’t working for me. He has a soft and cuddly energy and needed a cutesier name. My husband suggested Parrot (the verb, not the bird). It’s perfect. Shared an initial with his dad Pretzel, and a fun play on words for Ditto.

Doe 1: Gemini (brown and white)
Buck: Parrot (formerly Remix)
Doe 2: Jinx (dark brown)

07/02/2024

Kicked off the beginning of a very short kidding season last night! Twin 1st gen doelings ❤️

Sicily (tan)
Salem (black)

29/11/2023

Today was Kate’s last day.

Nearly 12 years ago on a cold grey February day, Dahlia kidded shortly before I got home from work. I found 3 big kids cold and wet in the dirt. I took them inside and came back to care for Dahlia, only to hear tiny baby screams with no baby to be seen. After several minutes of searching, the screams never stopping for a moment, I found her under the edge of the barn. Wedged up just barely in reach. I pulled out a tiny 1 1/2 pound ice cold ball of attitude. Demanding to be heard. I rushed her inside, cupping her neatly in the palms of my hands, and held her in front of a space heater until she warmed up. She then proceeded to out eat her siblings who were triple her size. She was the sassiest girl, and the biggest personality in the barn, despite her small size. It took her several years to catch up to her siblings, but she ended up a big chonky girl regardless. Likely due to her inclination to out eat a horse 🤷🏻‍♀️

She never cycled or freshened. Her ovaries showed huge cysts or abnormalities as a young doe. She spent her entire life a pet.

The last year and a half she’s slowly declined with arthritis in her front legs. She went on a sharp diet for the first time in her life in order to accommodate her tender toes. And eventually went on daily meds. Her meds increased over time, and we eventually maxed her out, but her pain continued to grow. Cold weather made it worse. She spent the last month on a generous dose of banamine added to her regimen. That kept her happy as a clam, though she could still barely walk. She never lost her perky personality, or her desire to shuffle to the milk room and gobble up grain as fast as she could inhale it, before she got caught. It’s hard to make end of life decisions when they are so bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Today was as cold as the day she was born, although we lucked out on some sunshine. We spent the morning soaking up sun and looking for “potato chips” in the grass. Then someone left a door open, silly me, and she quite literally ate grain until she was done. It was a lot 😅

I’ve been saving Echo’s ashes for a couple years now, and the sisters are finally reunited. She lays in the far corner of the main pasture, where she can keep an eye on the action.

2/27/12 - 11/29/23 ❤️‍🩹

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