Maggidan's Minis Farm

Breeder of Quality NPGA Registered Pygmy Goats

The Does Of Maggidan's Minis

Although they may not be the most beautiful, or win the most ribbons, we begin our list with our oldest and most experienced does. They have proven themselves over and over in the kidding pen and we are proud to feature them at the top of our list.

Our Senior Does

PGCH Maggidan's Minis Natalia +  
 
Dam of Maggidan's Minis Tzar,  Maggidan's Minis Tzana, and Maggidan's Minis Ivan
Sire: Lily Valley Pygmies Rockne   
Dam: Stolle's Twin Oaks Felicity
Date of Birth: 4/5/98

Natalia was our very first PGCH.  She is still hangin' with the herd at age 12.  She was one of Lily Valley Pygmies Rockne's first kids born here.  That was one of the most spectacular kid crops we have ever had when it comes to an improvement in overall quality.  Rockne was a superior herdsire.  He was lame when we bought him, his run at PGCH cut short, but this daughter really made up for it.  She showed a very limited number of times, as nearly each time she went out she won big!  These pictures with her standing still don't do her justice she would "WOW" when she was on the move, showing graceful femininity, a fluid easy gait and a very regal bearing.  Natalia graced us with 9 bucklings and only 3 doelings and has retired from the kidding pen with 12 beautiful kids to her name.  Contessa and Ursula, and Tzar, Ivan and Rulon continue her legacy in the Maggidan's Minis herd.

Lynbil Pygmy's Classy Lady II +

Junior and Reserve Grand Champion at the 2000 Florida State Fair
Sire: Lynbil Pygmy's Ike
Dam: Lynbil Pygmy's Classy Lady
Date of Birth: 6/23/98

When we first brought Classy home as a 5 month old kid we hoped she would not be too intimidated by all of the strangers she was joining.  But Classy knew she was destined to be leader one day and walked into the doe barn butting heads and taking names.   After Hebe retired from the throne Classy Lady became the Herd Queen she was meant to be.   She is sound and quite frisky and we may breed her one more time.  When we look out at our herd we can easily see her influence in our best caramel does.  She nearly always gave us at least one caramel each time she has kidded.

Classy Lady II still reigns as herd queen but she is retired from the kidding pen.  Her doeling from 2008, Sassy Lady, is spectacular!

Diamond was one of the first of my milking pygmies.  She was a flighty, wild gal when she was first introduced to the milking stanchion, but soon we were working as a team.  Later that first season she made a return to the showring with a calmer, trusting easy to handle attitude and quickly won 2 legs.  She is still quite sound but has developed "stretch marks", a distended abdomen, from her many pregnancies and can't quite compete with those young does with tight abs.  So she happily raises kids every year, and contributes to the milking pail when she can. 

White Diamond kidded with a fine single doe kid, Diamond's Are Forever.  The sire is Eason.

PF is personality plus and if she had a slightly wider front end (to better match her width in the rear) and slightly straighter front legs you would probably see a PGCH in front of her name, but I will happily settle for the "+" following her name.  She still does quite well in the showring though, most often in the ribbons as she has a wonderful topline, nice head, her rear end structure can't be beat.  She freshens with a nice udder and shows best as a Milking Doe.  She makes beautiful kids AND adds to my milk pail every year.

Doll started her career as one of our top does when she grew and matured very fast as a youngster, taking her first big ribbon at barely 5 months old.  Of course we were very eager to breed her and she hasn't disappointed us.  Her kids are outstanding.  The big drawback to this is she puts everything into raising kids and is slow to gain enough weight back to compete in the showring.

AB was the first chocolate born in the Maggidan's herdname and she is not shy about spreading that color around.  Her first 6 kids have been wethers (yep all boys in 3 kiddings!) but this year she finally blessed us with a doe as one of the twins.  AB made a brief splash in the showring as a junior but didn't develop the smoothness and width up front that she needs to really compete.  Structurally she is very sound, and her hips show she is built for being a mom.  So she stays home popping out chocolate babies.

Moonpie is a lovely example of the older type of pygmy doe.  She is bigger, a bit taller, longer more "dairyish" than what may be popular today.  And when in condition she kicks butt in the showring.   Just look at that extension of her prosternum and the correct set to her legs both front and rear.  Standing there she is lovely but on the move she is a dream, very fluid and elegant, very feminine but powerful.  But her best feature is her ability to carry kids and deliver them with ease, she is also a GREAT mom, cleaning and feeding her kids very promptly.  Moonpie kidded with twin bucklings sired by Eason.  They have been sold. 

Zephyr is a favorite on the show circuit.  She is a flashy doe with lots of "look at me" attitude.  She has an easygoing personality if you don't sneak up on her (I suspect she needs glasses or contacts, LOL).  Her structure is quite correct and she is not at all an extreme doe, being very smoothly blended, balanced and proportional.    She kids easily even though she acts like a "diva" the entire time she is having contractions.  Once the kids appear she is all "momma goat" forgetting any discomfort she experienced.

Queenie is our second PGCH doe and a bit different from Natalia, our first.  Queenie is a powerful doe, very deep bodied and muscular.  We thought she was a buckling for her first 10 weeks of life!  I swear I looked carefully when "he" was born and even the day after.  When "he" didn't develop into a "bucky" buck we decided he would be a cute pet wether and didn't pay much more attention, except to note that we thought we might be seeing an extra doeling amongst that year's kid crop.  When the day for castrations came "he" was the last one we scooped up and flipped over and did we get a surprise!  Somehow "he" had become a very nice looking doeling, hence the name (right then and there) of Lil Queen.

Sophie is all about structure.  Her hip and rear leg structure is very near ideal, starting at the top with very high set thurls which lead to nicely set rear legs that give her a beautiful ground covering fluid gait.  Her hips are long and wide, you could drive a dump truck through her pelvic opening.  She passes brawny buck kids easily.  She could have a shorter neck but she has a nice set to her neck carrying her pretty head high (except when crunching newly fallen leaves!).  She has blessed us with lots of boys, very nice boys, but she owes us some does. 

LLD is most certainly her daddy's daughter and I have included his picture below to so you what I mean.  This is exactly what we had in mind when we bred Bricklin to Exceptional Detail.  Exceptional Detail had exceptional structure but lacked type, Bricklin was all about type while he had decent structure.  The two of them hit it out of the ballpark with LLD.

This is Bricklin, LLD's sire.  Like father like daughter don't you think?

Moondance has matured into a very powerful doe with tremendous bone and body capacity.  Her rear leg structure is adequate but could us a tiny tweak (a bit more angulation) and she would be in the big ribbons.  She kids like a breeze and is a super mother and fine milking doe.

My spoiled rotten brat goes Junior Champion at the Florida State Fair and one month later delivers QUADS by herself!  Her championship picture is above, this is a doe in the last month of gestation carrying QUADS, and they weren't especially small either!  She may be a brat but you gotta love a doe like her.  She mostly maintained her good looks while raising the 2 surviving kids.  Even though she lost all of her show conditioning she is still a very smooth doe, deep and wide, well muscled throughout and with the "show bloom" gone you can truly admire her superior structure.  Her topline sprang back too there is no dip.

This beautiful doe was Natalia's finale.  And what a finale!  Tessa is turning into a fine show doe as she matures, and she kids like her mother, by herself and unassisted.  She has her sire's and dam's regal carriage and rather reminds us of a gray agouti version of Natalia.  She is not an extreme doe, she is very balanced and proportional.  Okay the picture is not the greatest, she like her sire is a bit camera shy.  We look forward to a bright future for her in our herd.  Contessa finished our 2009 kidding season by giving us twin does by Eason.  They are spectacular!! 

Contessa hit it out of the ballpark by giving us our first set of QUINTS in the fall of 2010!  Ultimately only 2 survived but HOLY COW!  She has been sold to a good friend and special goat lady, Anna Bowman, to help her start her registered pygmy herd back up.

Maggidan's Minis Sarann

Sire:  Maggidan's Minis Ivan
Dam:  Sar-Jim Pygmy's White Rose
DOB:  4/29/07

Sarann has matured into a fine doe, very nearly show quality but she prefers the kidding pen.  She kids with ease and throws color too.

Maggidan's Minis Circe
Sire: Maggidan's Minis Tsavo
Dam:  Maggidan's Minis Ursula
DOB:  8/19/08

Circe is developing well, she has very nice structure and is finally developing the mature look she will need to compete well.  Has kidded twice so far and is for sale.

Maggidan's Minis Amulet

Sire:  Kabills Farm Bad Bob
Dam:  Maggidan's Minis Charm
DOB:  5/4/07

Amulet failed to settle after numerous tries.  After the sudden death of her dam, Amulet retired young to become herd queen to a group of leaderless wethers.  She has stepped into her dam's hoofprints, not like we planned but very well indeed.

Our Junior Does

Maggidan's Minis Sassy Lady

Sire: Maggidan's Minis Tzar
Dam:  Lynbil Pygmy's Classy Lady II
DOB:  3/14/08

Sassy Lady looks more and more like her dam all the time.  Okay, maybe better!

Maggidan's Minis Riata
Sire: Maggidan's Minis Fleetwood
Dam:  Maggidan's Minis Penelope
DOB:  3/1/08

Riata has a fine start to her show ring career and strongly favors her dam Penelope.  Riata kidded in the fall of 2010 with twins a buck and doe, the sire is Eason.

Maggidan's Minis Tango

Sire: Kabills Farm Bad Bob
Dam:  Maggidan's Minis Passion Flower
DOB:  4/5/08

Finally a doe from PF with perfect front legs and the width up front to match her super rear end!  A caramel to boot.  She really favors her grand dam, Passion for Purple.  She will be making her show ring debut in early 2010.  Tango kidded twins, a buck and doe sired by Eason.

Maggidan's Minis Tradewind

Sire: Maggidan's Minis Tsavo
Dam:  Maggidan's Minis Zephyr
DOB:  5/12/08

Tradewind is following in her dam's footsteps and is taking the show ring by storm.  The picture above is not at all good, I will get a better one soon!  Tradewind kidded with twins and buck and doe, both caramels, sired by Pizzazz in late summer 2010.

Maggidan's Minis Sasha

Sire: Maggidan's Minis Tsavo
Dam:  Maggidan's Minis Contessa
DOB:  8/20/08

Sasha has matured into a lovely almost show quality brooddoe and is for sale.

(page last updated 12/14/10)