This flashy buck kid, Jumper, will be joining our farm soon. I had no intention of getting a full size buck previously and this year I was figuring I'd put in an order for one next Spring. However when this handsome fellow was mentioned to me after I'd discovered his dam and asked about her, I couldn't refuse. What a looker and what a pedigree! What drew me to his dam was the fact that she milked 19 pounds at peak as a 3 year old! Yes that's right! Wow is all you can say about that! She's a beautiful doe who milks like the dairy goat she is averaging nearly 14 pounds on milk test over the course of her lactation! Look at the beautiful udder she sports below. To top all that off, she was on the Top Ten list for 2009 as #3 for protein and #4 for overall milk production! He is a gold mine of genetics I believe and I am thrilled to be able to use such a wonderful buck with my Lamancha does this year.

     His sire's sire was the 2010 ADGA Nationals premier sire! He has produced numerous gorgeous productive uddered daughters. His daughter, CH Autumn-Acres Miss Maple Sugar was the 2010 ADGA Nationals Grand Champion Senior Lamancha Doe! Spartan himself was out of SGCH Kastdemur's Slice 3*M which was the 2005 ADGA Nationals Grand Champion Senior Lamancha Doe & Best Udder! Take a look at his linked pedigree below. The links take you to sites where you can see photos of each of the goats.

     I decided to call this guy Jump-Start (Jumper for short) because we are following the J theme in his dam's lines. The 'Just' part is for his sire. We're jump-starting our Lamancha program with this excellent buck, infusing a lot of milk production and excellent attached udders with show-winning confirmation as well, so he's helping us to jump-start our Lamancha program in a fantastic way so why not name him so!