*B Lone Thistle Bastille

Sire: +*B SG Barnowl Quantum Leap
SS: +*B SGCH Kastdemur’s Vigilante News
SD: SGCH Barnowl Quidditch 2*M
Dam: SGCH Barnowl Vendredi *M
DS: Barnowl Eros
DD: Barnowl Remembrance
ADGA Genetics Pedigree

A long time ago, all the way back in 2007, we had this lovely mahogany brown two year-old with an especially sweet personality. We didn’t plan to sell her, but when Sonia Thyssen and Heather Arts came over to pick-up a couple kids and other milkers for there then young LaMancha herd, they basically told us they weren’t leaving until we sold them “that goat.” As much as we enjoy Sonia and Heather’s company, we know true love when we see it and we weren’t about to stand in the way. Under their care, Dredi did indeed flourish, easily finishing her championship, going on test to get her star, appraising Excellent, and being dragged across country to place well in one National Show after another. For nearly a decade, we were regaled with stories of Dredi. Everything from how her’s was the only milk they’d use for house milk because of its sweet, rich flavor, or how she knew when they were about to load for a show, run across the pasture, and carefully position herself behind an old tree. To say the least, in her twelve years on this earth, Dredi cultivated quite a fan club among LaMancha breeders.

Much like Dredi, Quantum was a spectacular buck that was able to achieve much more under Sonia and Heather’s good care and diverse herd, than at our home where he was closely related to everything we had at the time. With high producing, consistently beautiful daughters, we’ve made efforts to bring back his influence both with does like Astraea and Qazam, as well as leasing Copperfield. When we got the call that this last buck of Dredi’s could be our’s, and that he was sired by Quantum, we jumped at the chance to bring both these maternal and paternal genetics back into our herd.

A yearling in 2017, Bastille is quite a flashy buck with his smoothness of blending, flat topline, and width throughout. Although friendly, he is not particularly easy to handle, so not sure we’ll be getting anything more than a pen shot anytime soon. We used Bastille for our milking yearlings and Red Ecstasy in fall 2016, and while we mainly got buck kids, we were quite impressed with their wedgy, dairy style, flatness of bone, and angulation throughout. For fall 2017, we plan to breed about a quarter of the herd to Bastille.