Barn name: Kissie
Reg#: PA2167144
DOB: 4/2/21
Book: Purebred French Alpine
Color: Reg as cou blanc, but with age is clearly a broken cou clair or maybe even two-tone (see above pics!)
Casein: B/E
** DNA On File ** sire verified
ADGA Genetics Pedigree
Linear Appraisal History
2022 – GV++ 81 01-05 (injury)
2024 – AVVV 84@3yo (injury)
DHIR
Yr Age DIM #M %F #F %P #P Peak#
’22. 0-11 244 1810 4.5 82 3.5 63 9.3
’23 1-11 286 2829 4.6 130 3.4 95 14.7
’24 2-11 271 3084 4.5 138 3.5 107 15.7
Freshenings:
2022 – Kidded buck/doe twins sired by Alakai 3/12/22. Retained Caprice Acres Alakai Caldera who I then lost in a freak accident in late April.
2023 – Triplets sired by Vladimir. Both does had teat defects and were sold as unregistered. Buck kid was sold as wether at a few days of age. Knew this was a risky breeding, these lines do not cross well with high risk of teat defects… got greedy and tried it anyway. Doe kids were gorgeous, if only the teats were normal…
2024 – 1B 1D sired by Addi-Hill Lono Soothsayer. Polled doe kid retained, see Sibyl here!
2025 – dry
2026 – Kidded 1B; sold as wether. Dried off immediately.
2026/2027 Breeding Plans:
Planned live cover breeding to Caprice Acres SSS Mt. Sinai for 2027 kids. Fingers, toes, eyes, and nose crossed for a polled daughter!
2026 – Few prior updates because Kissie was supposed to be retired and leave the herd. But after her daughter was found to be infertile after 2 years of failed breeding, I decided to keep Kissie and breed her in hopes of another daughter. Unfortunately, she gave a single buck kid in spring and dried off beautifully. She is doing very well in the dry pen, no health concerns so she will stick around as a brood animal a bit longer.
2022 – She had a severe injury to primarily her right rear hock, suspected rupture of a collateral ligament that has led to severe instability in that joint. Both hocks were affected to a degree but worsened through her late gestation. The end of her first pregnancy was extremely hard for her to be mobile, and I hesitated to put her through this again. It also completely altered her back/rear leg/rump assembly – going from reasonable conformation in rump and rear legs to a train wreck as she tries to compensate for massive instability in a major joint. Was hoping she’d bounce back after kidding and while she’s more mobile due to the ‘weight loss’, she took a long time to be more normal in mobility. She has age on her side in this case. She had improved through the lactation in mobility and stability in her joints, so I have elected to try breeding her. However, I’m very pleased with her udder structure – globular, high, wide. Not to bad for older genetics! She’s cranking the fat. Just like Brazen, a couple of unfortunate events where the milking intervals were extreme (some 24hrs, some just quite extended) around >200 DIM, she decreased in production quite drastically at this point which you can see in her CDCB data. She still had a respectable lactation overall and I’m hoping to get a daughter to replace her with as she is such a cool doe but I am not sure how long we can keep her mobile if she continues to be bred/kid. She is slowed down a bit as she approaches kidding 2023, but is handling it surprisingly well compared to her first kidding event.
2023 – She carried triplets with very minimal trouble. She took her time walking to and from the milking stand, but jumped up after her characteristic hesitation. After kidding, she is pretty darn mobile after getting those three suckers outta her belly! She has had a phenomenal lactation so far and despite clear conformation effects of her back/HQ, her injury seems to be well healed. She is punky enough to guard the gate so she can come out first for milking every time, happy to run to the stand and still hops up. You can see her right leg is still more affected than her left, but the whole conformation of her HQ is off, and it does cause her back to roach severely – unlike animals in her pedigree. Kissie is being retained for the 2023/2024 breeding season in hopes of getting a normal daughter to retain. Her 2023 spring born daughters both had teat defects, unfortunately – leaving me with no daughters to retain. I knew those lines didn’t cross well and could give me teat defects, and one daughter managed to hide a double orifice until she was about 85lbs. She was absolutely gorgeous so I’m very sad to be back to square one with Kissie’s lines. Fingers crossed for a sucessful 2023 AI to Alakai, which I’ve had before but also lost the doe kid in a freak accident.
2024- Not only has her prior injury failed to stop her from being a productive and happy member of the herd, but she is also herd queen and has to wear a bell to give the other poor non-crippled goats time to get out of her way. Her 2024 daughter failed to settle her first fall, so is beign retained. So is Kissie. for now.
2025 – When Kissie’s 2024 doe kid failed to breed for a 2nd season, I decided to breed Kissie again.
2026 – She kidded with a single buck kid who was sold as a wether at a few days of age. Was so hoping for a polled daughter to keep. She was milked once for colostrum and immediately dried off – which wasn’t that hard after a single kid, she was slowly coming into milk. She cleanly dried off and is happy out in her dry doe pen with her buddy. We will be breeding her again this fall for 2027 kids, and may continue to dry her off immediately if she continues to tolerate that well. Her injury prevents her from jumping on the milk stand comfortably. She does best in a low-traffic pen with less mud, which in the spring our doe pen can get a little churned up honestly. If she continues to tolerate it well, she will continue to freshen. We may even let her dam raise a buck kid for meat in the future if she is keen on that!
Also to note, kissie’s sire Brisbane has several extremely high producing daughters for the QMF herd – Heather Quick. As of August 2026, Brisbane has pretty nice evaluations! His daughters AVERAGE 2918#M, 109#F 86#P and have an AVERAGE final score of 85.1… unfortunately Kissie is likely dragging that down, lol. Some notable half sisters include:
QMF It’s Going Down 3*M VEEE 90@3yo
2nd lact – 3330#M 76#F 88%P
3rd lact – 3480#M 97#F 103#P
QMF Winter in Brisbane 2*M VEEE 91 @3yo
2nd lact – 3290 99F 81P
3rd lact – 3160 81#F 80#P
