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2-20 Waiting for Spring and the Promise of Wonderful New Kids

We have all of our senior does bred and we are very excited about the quality we are offering. Samba, our matriarch is bred to a 91 point buck bred by Angel-Prairie in Indiana: Angel-Prairie AP Jack Paragon.

Our 4 year old doe 1*M Mountain Star Adhara Dali , also goes back to Angel-Prairie breeding is bred to the brother of the Alpine Spotlight Sale buck, *B Bearly Emporer Anaehoomalu  who are sons of Bearly Reprise Alexandria, 2011 Top Performer Award for Alpines. Alexandria had two 4,000 milk records and appraised at EX92 more than once.  We are very excited about this union!

Our 3 year old doe 1*M Brankton Karson's Chanel , who gave us two great bucks out of Brankton Revive Kenny is bred to him again. Kenny is a 90pt VEE buck as a two year old. Very rare!

Our other coming 3 year old doe Mountain Star Baham Coco, a beautiful really red chamoisee doe, is bred to *B Hull's Abraham Padvinan after giving us a great doeling out of Brankton Chico Karson last year.  Her name is Mountain Star Dabih Caladonia and she is a keeper.  She is a dry yearling this year.

And our other dry yearling, we also are keeping Dali's doeling Mountain Star Dabih Juliette.

12-25 • Merry Christmas from Mountain Star Farm!

8-11 • Mountain Star Dahib Apollo finds new home at Knowles Island Grade A Dairy!

We are pleased to announce that Apollo has found a great home in Greenville, Tennessee with John Brannon. He will have a lovely herd of yearling does recently purchased from the Goat Lady Dairy. John has promised to keep us posted on his progress.  John is president of the Palmetto Goat Association. Apollo weighed 78 pounds at 4-1/2 months old.

Congratulations, John!

7-20 Summer Update

Wow, all the work we have been doing has been keeping us away from posting the latest news.  We had 6 kids born this spring. Dali had a buck and a doe. Chanel had two outstanding bucks and Coco had a doe and a buck. All are healthy and fine.

We are keeping Dali's doe Mountain Star Dahib Juliette (Sissy)  and Coco's doe, Mountain Star Dahib Caledonia (Cali). We have sold Dali's buck and Coco's buck to Lois and Jack Albright. Congratulations!

One of Chanel's bucks, Tron is reserved and the twin brother Mountain Star Dahib Apollo is for still available for purchase. They are out of  Brankton Revive Kenny LA90pts as a 2 year old  (SG *++B Sunshine Rehma Revive x *CH Brankton Chico Kenzie - LA 90pts VEEE*)

• Dam: 1*M Brankton Karson's Chanel (*Brankton Chico Karson LA 91VEE* x Brankton Golden Nella (SG *++B Sweet Dreams Golden Boy, LA89 V+V x GCH Iron-Rod Naomi LA90pts EVEE)

1*M Brankton Karson's Chanel earned her milk star at the one day milk test at the PDGA show in June.  Coco missed it by 1 point, ahhh, next year!

And the GRAND FINALE: CH Mountain Star Baham Itsy Ibis won best Alpine Senior Doe at the Shelby show in both rings. She was also best doe in show! She is now a Champion! Way to go Itsy. We are thrilled, it is our first Champion doe since we began breeding in 2008 & showing in 2009. Congratulations go to her owners, Sarah York and Chuck Campbell for their hard dedicated work in showing her and conditioning her. She had two beautiful does this year out of Brankton Revive Kenny - so watch out world. Moore's Pond Farm Alpines are on their way to becoming a great herd and we look forward to watching them blossom and grow.

2-21 • The Waiting Game

We are now about a month away from our first kids and most of the kids will be for sale.

Chanel, our cou blank (white shoulder) doe is due first around March 19th. She is by Brankton Chico Karson 91 EEV, out of the Sweet Dream Golden Boy daughter Brankton Golden Nella. Nella is one of the last twin doelings out of  GCH Iron-Rod BT Naomi who was 1997 1st place Yearling Milker with 1st place udder, LA 90 EVEE. She is bred to Brankton Revive Kenny who scored 86 points on his Linear Appraisal score which is very rare for a yearling. Chanel has the first leg of her championship and will be milk tested and shown this year.

1*M Mountain Star Adhara Dali (Brankton Peyton Manning x McRingger Samba) is due on March 21st. Dali is bred to *B Brankton Nike Kipling. Kipling had a daughter place in the TOP 5 at the ADGA Nationals in 2010. Last year she placed 1st in her two year class with best udder.

Then our oldest girl, McRingger Samba is due around April 29th. She is bred to Lady-K LKWE Ashe-Vega.  His mother was Reserve National Champion Yearling in 2005. Samba's brother Karson scored 91 EEV points in his Linear Appraisal two years ago and her sister Brankton Chico Kenzie scored 90VEEE. Her great grandmother GCH Iron-Rod BT Naomi was 1997 1st place Yearling Milker with 1st place udder, LA 90 EVEE. Samba will be milk tested this year.

Last is one of favorites (don't tell the others), our dark red chamoisee doe Mountain Star Baham Coco, who is due on May 15th. She is a Kipling daughter out of McRingger Samba. She is bred to Brankton Chico Karson, 91EEV. She will be milk tested and shown this year.

Our herd is CAE negative, TB & Brucellosis negative.

9-30 Salvadore and Felipe go to live in Pippinger's Paradise

This is a magical story about our 2010 boys - Salvador and Felipe. We wanted them to live together and we were given that wish when Jane and Brad Pippenger purchased them for the beautiful 3 acre newly fence pasture. The magical part was when we found out that our dear friends Sarah and Chuck had also sold them their three buckling wethers out of McRingger Bebop (now Heidi). Jane was so surprised when she found out that we were best friends. And of course, we are thrilled with their new home!

9-20 Mountain Star Baham Velvet has a new home with the Mineer Family

We are pleased to announce that our wonderful doe Velvet has found a great home with the Mineer family of Irwin, Tennessee. Kim was very excited to add this doe to her foundation herd. Her two boys think that Velvet is the greatest and so do we.

Congratulations to you all! And keep us posted on her progress.

7-15 • Mountain Star Adhara Dali • 1*M Milking Award Certificate Arrives

We are pleased to inform you that Dali has qualified to be called a Star Milker. This allows her to place 1*M in front of her name and indicates that she has reached a level of milk production. She did this by producing 12 pounds of milk (1-1/2 gallons) with .29 Pounds of butterfat, 2.4 Percent Butterfat for a qualifying 18.3 points in a 24 hour period.

She is a 2 year old first freshener,  who recently qualified for a American Dairy Goat Association Linear Appraisal score 87 VVEV. I was told that that was pretty good for a two year old. She also took 1st place in the 2 year old milker class at the PDGA Show out of 16 entries.

She will be bred to Brankton Chico Karson, LA 91 points for 2011. Way to go Dali!

6-5 Grand Champion Junior Doe • Brankton Karson's Chanel

We are so pleased that Chanel received the dry leg toward her Championship by being named the Grand Champion Junior Doe of the PDGA Alpine Specialty.




Our heartfelt thanks to Chris Owen (Spinning Spider Creamery) for showing Chanel for us.




Our thanks to David Brank for allowing us to purchase Brankton Karson's Chanel last year. She was sired by Brankton Chico Karson (LA 91 pts) (MissDee Chico x Brankton Keeper Kattie) out of Brankton Golden Nella (Sweet Dreams Golden Boy x Iron-Rod BT Naomi).




We are breeding Chanel to Brankton Revive Kenny (Sunshine Rehma Revive x Brankton Chico Kenzie (LA 90) (MissDee Chico x Brankton Nikita Kendra).