Waygara Tweedie

Tweedie standing below the goatyard

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This is Tweedie, our little crossbred doe. She is a British Alpine X Toggenburg X Boer X Saanen, her sire's dam being a Boer and her sire's sire being British Alpine X Toggenburg. She has now been sold.
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Born: September 2007
 Breeding: Waygara Twinkle Surprise
Waygara Tambourine
Waygara Trumpeter		 Training:  Kneel and rear, has carried a pack
 and pulled a cart.
 
Sire's sire: ? (British Alpine X Toggenburg)
Sire: ? (Toggenburg X British Alpine X Boer)
 Sire's dam: ? (Boer) 

 Dam's sire: ?
  Dam's dam: ?
       Tweedie was a twin, but her brother died from snake bite the day before we would have bought him. We got Tweedie as a tiny, cute kid at three weeks old with her mother, a little Saanen doe named Frolic. Tweedie accidently got bred by Waygara Tauphan in May 2008, but her buck kid was so absoloutly gorgeous that we have bred her back to Tauphan this year. Tweedie freshened for the first time with a good udder, wonderful easy to milk teats with very very good let down, but the Boer in her has given her short lactations. We will hopefully breed that out of her kids out by breeding her to Tauphan, and then breed the resulting kids to Eli in order to keep the curved ears. Then, hopefully, I can breed to Tauphan and Zhivargo to finish off my new breed. It is still very much a dream at the moment, but I am working on it. :) Tweedie is a lovely doe, but needs a bit more attention as she is not exactly as people-addicted as we would like. She is still very friendly, and I am really looking forward to her kid(s) this year, due on September the 6th. The only thing a little  not really desirable about her is her long tail, a trait passed on from her mother. Tweedie has much better shoulders than her mother, a good, straight back, nice neck and chest, and very good hooves. She does also have slightly weak back legs though, but she has good conformation for the rest. Tweedie is a lovely little crossbred doe, and has a very sweet temperament. You might notice a little trait of her mother's; her tail is held up in the air at all possible moments!
Tweedieon a log in the grass in the goat paddock as a kid  26-7-09 I don't have many good photos of Tweedie at present, but I will try to get some more good ones. She is wearing a blanket at the moment, so I will have to dig around in the photos I have already got, or wait until it is warm enough to take off her blanket for a recent photo. She has had her horns ringed, and so is extremely touchy around her head and I had to pull her blanket on backwards, up her back legs instead of over her head. (not helped by the fact that the blanket had been used before and had been a little muddled!)

6-8-09 I have taken the photos, and as you can see, her horn has already been broken at the base in  the recent photos. Her horns should both finish coming off in about a month. Tweedie lost her little old second-hand blanket, and that was why I was able to take the photos. I have made a new one, so will wait til spring before taking any more photos. Her new blanket is a heavier one, and much better quality. 
 
 24-9-09 Tweedie kidded on the 9th with big, beautiful twins, a stunningly pretty doe, Waygara Tambourine, and a hilariously funny and lovable
buck, Waygara Trumpeter.
Tweedie as a young kid  Tam is elegant, dainty, but not picky or fussy and just totally the kid who you fall in love with at first sight. Trump is too funny to be very handsome, but is admitedly very very cute, and a friendly big baby. Tweedie has got pretty bad attachment this kidding, but she has still got wonderful let-down and is our easiest doe to milk. She was a little sick before kidding, but fixed up with antibiotics and is already up to about 3 litres a day. Tweedie got tested for CAE, the first of our goats to be tested as we couldn't afford to have them all done. She was clear however, and being a kid from the only goat we have that was not from tested CAE free herds, that means that we should have a totally CAE free herd of about 30 goats!
13-11-09 Tweedie has now been sold to a hobby farm, and we have kept her daughter Tambourine to replace her.

24-9-10 Tweedie and her friend Fawn have both gone to a different home, near Shepparton. Both will possibly be coming up here to be serviced next year.










Right is Tweedie at about seven months old.
 Tweedie at about seven months old

This is Tweedie at about a year old, having just become a big sister.

Tweedie at a year and a half old, her long tail apparent.
Tweedie laying down in the goat yard  Tweedie in kid at nearly two years old

Created on ... July 25, 2009