Chevre Noir Anaheim Carter

S: California Bodacious Anaheim
SS: Kastdemur’s Bodacious
SSS: *B SG Kastdemur’s Dasani
SSD: GCH Kastdemur’s Bohemia
SD: California Tequila Cayenne
SDS: *B GCH Kastdemur’s Tequila
SDD: SG California DP Chile Verde
D: GCH Chevre Noir Cognac Roosevelt 
2015 ADGA Reserve National Champion
DS: UNREGISTERED (known to be, California Cognac) 
DSS: *B GCH Kastdemur’s Tequila
DSD: UNREGISTERED (known to be, California Royal Chalupa)  
DD: Redwood Hills Kennedy
DDS: UNKNOWN
DDD: SG Redwood Hills Free L Cashmere (American Alpine)
ADGA Genetics Pedigree

Carter is the very first doe kid we have reserved in our over twenty years of breeding dairy goats. Sure we’ve brought in a few does here and there, but they’ve all been either kids back as part of a sale or were purchased at an older age. This one we put a reservation down on and waited two years to get. And yes, she is a Recorded Grade. And yes, little more than 3/4 of her pedigree is even registered with ADGA. But then again our very first doe, Tempo Mariah’s Selena, was an “oops child” and we’ve been quite happy with where those Grade roots have taken us. 

We met Carter’s dam Roosevelt, and her delightful owner Erika, when we were pen neighbors at the 2015 ADGA National Show. Ardis and Mariah immediately fell in love with Roosevelt, whose elf ears, splotchy black and white color, and big personality reminded us of our A-line foundation doe, first registered Barnowl doe, and Selena daughter, Barnowl Queen Arachne. We were already talking to Erika about getting a doe kid out of Roosevelt or another of her beautiful Grades, but when Ardis randomly got to show Roosevelt in the championship line-up and won Reserve National Champion we knew we had to convince Erika to let us make a reservation. Although Erika focuses more on making award-winning cheese than showing, in the past couple years her herd has done exceptionally well, including winning the prestigious Supreme Best Three Award at the 2017 Sonoma County Fair. Carter is only Roosevelt’s second daughter in eight years and it is beyond an honor that Erika entrusted her to us. As “noir” as she can be, Carter brings not only a new color, but also a new energy and new bloodlines to our herd, while still fitting with the dairy, large framed, and productive style we have been striving for since the 1990s with Selena and her daughters. To say we are excited, and spoiling Carter accordingly rotten, is a huge understatement. 

This doe just captures everyone’s heart, judges included! Showing at only our two most competitive fairs, she won Junior Champion at each and topped it with a Best Junior Doe in Show at Oregon State Fair. She’s a shorter doe, especially compared to penmate Red Joy, but she gives up nothing in length, levelness, width, and dairyness throughout. 

We just keep loving this doe more and more! She came in with one incredible mammary and immediately milked off any extra weight, perhaps lost a little too much, we know this will be a transition year, but there is a thousand reason to have patience. Wow! Not much patience was needed on Carter’s behalf, she truly blossomed into a magnificent balanced, productive doe in 2020; unfortunately it was 2020, so we will hold tight to our patience and hope that soon we can safely get her out to shows and be appraised. 

Losing a very pregnant Carter in 2022 counts among the most tragic losses in our 2+ decades of breeding goats. While we wish we had had much more time with this spectacularly special doe, we’re grateful to have had her presence grace our lives at all. 

Much gratitude to Erika McKenzie-Chapter, more can be found on her goats at https://www.facebook.com/ChevreNoirDairyGoats/, and her excellent cheese at http://www.pennyroyalfarm.com/. Photos of Roosevelt and 2017 Supreme Three courtesy of Chevre Noir.