SGCH Barnowl Auriga 3*M

Sire: +*B Barnowl Blade
SS: ++*B SG Kastdemur’s Tach Lach
SD: SGCH Barnowl Buffy 2*M 
Dam: SGCH Barnowl Aurelia 2*M
DS: ++*B SGCH Tempo Very Dark
DD: SGCH Barnowl Acythera *M “Fish”
ADGA Genetics Pedigree 

After losing Fish over the 2013 holidays, we doubted that anyone could fill her place and with saddened hearts entered the kidding and show season.  Right out of the gate we had the prettiest set of kids born in years, among them this beautiful white doe we named Auriga.  Start of show season and Blade’s full sister Carmilla blossomed finishing her championship and winning half a dozen BUOB awards.  End of show season, Aurelia, her dam, came into her own winning grand champion at the ever-competitive Oregon and Washington State Fairs–winning all three of her championship legs at these prestigious west coast fairs.  We’ve been in the game long enough to know there are no guarantees whether the best breeding or the prettiest kid, but we think this little girl is really something special: she’s well bred, she’s pretty, and she looks an awful lot like her grandma, minus the black fish marking.

Well, our premonitions were not too far afield! She needs time to grow up and like her dam before her, a big batch of triplets or quads would really help her to increase production and drop a bit of extra weight. But all and all, Auriga freshened in 2016 as quite an impressive young milker. And in 2017, a beautiful set of triplets from Occult did indeed help her pull it together and easily earn her star milker designation. While she struggles to win the big ribbons, she has routinely placed top or near the top of her class because of her outstanding general appearance. During a time when we have lots of small (but mighty) does on the show string, it is fun to have a big, tall, long doe to show as well. We believe her mammary is a slight improvement on her dam, but we are still working on getting production to equal that huge frame.

Kidding with beautiful, colorful kids sired by Bastille, Auriga decided that 2018 was the year she is going to pull it all together. In her first spring club show, long-time fellow exhibitors kept asking, “who is that!?” Soon they remembered her as that fancy general appearance doe who has been patiently standing in 2nd and 3rd for the last few years. Looking like a whole new doe, Auriga easily won all three of her legs in the first two club shows out. She then went on to win Grand Champion, Best of Breed, and Best Udder of Breed at Oregon State Fair. Her success in the show ring was matched with success on appraisal day, and ultimately being recognized with a Superior Genetics designation. It is fun to once again have a big, white doe who can win the big ribbons too. And to be sure, she’s been no slouch in the parlor this year either with a 12-pound average and a high pushing nearly 15 pounds.