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Last updated September 17, 2023

News 2022: New Champion Fairlea Irene!
News 2023: New Star Does: Fairlea Maia 3*D, Fairlea Rhea 3*D
Linear Appraisal Results 9/11/23: Maia GEVE 87, Amazing Grace VGEE 85, Freya VEVV 87, Esmeralda EEEE 92!

 

Fairlea Heidi, Gretchen, and Fleur winning the Three-Generation Class at the 2005 AGS National Goat Show

Thanks to Joanne Karohl, Dragonfly Farm

 

SGCH Fairlea Eleanor 2*D, 2*M
 
Fairlea Jean Valjean X ARMCH Greenville Acres Ester
 
Eleanor's page

ADGA Elite List (top 5 percent of ADGA registered does in milk production, list started in 2015): Listed for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. Unfortunately she didn't kid in 2019.
  Gold and white with frosted ears and nose, born 4/16/10, a triplet. The side picture is from 2013, her second freshening; rear is from 2012. I held her back and didn't show her much as an adult because I was afraid she would beat her own mother Ester, who had a hard kidding in 2013 and I didn't know if she would ever get pregnant again and be able to finish the ADGA championship she was working on - and, sure enough, the only time I showed both, Eleanor beat Ester, even though I kept taking more and more milk out of Eleanor's udder to make her less competitive. So, sadly, Ester finished her championship in AGS but not in ADGA.
Eleanor is the highest-producing Nigerian doe I have ever had; her first year was so prolific I felt sure she would earn ADGA Top Ten listing for milk production in the breed the next year, but I changed feed (no alfalfa hay was available and also I started mixing my own lower-protein grain with no soy and no Roundup), and after that she didn't come as close. A pity, but to me healthy food and healthy kids is more important than Top Ten status, and the constant exposure to Roundup and soy was killing a lot of my kids, causing severe mineral imbalances, and made three of my best-ever does (Heidi, Fleur, Florence) permanently infertile much too young, due to fetal deaths. I am very happy with the results from eliminating soy and GMO and mixing my own grains. My goats are producing a lot more live kids and seem all-around much healthier now.
 
Show wins: Three Senior Grand Champion (ADGA), one Senior Reserve, two Junior reserves, and one Best in Show!
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results: 2015: EEEE 91



GCH Fairlea Princess Grace 5*D, 5*M
 
MCH/CH Dawnland Tabby's Halifax E x Fairlea Florence 4*D, 4*M
 
Grace's page

Sadly, we lost Grace on 9/11/23 at the age of 13 1/2, a good, long life. She is sorely missed: For most of the last year she has been constantly present, wandering around, grazing, visiting anyone working outside, or lying in the sun. All our old goats get free rein of the place when they reach the stage of old age when the other goats start being mean to them, and they all enjoy their freedom.
Black-and-gold buckskin, born 5/11/10, a twin. Photos from 2015, her fourth freshening. Another long one and another Junior Best in Show Halifax daughter/Fleur granddaughter, but much wider than her half-sister Margereen.
Grace and Margereen are half-sisters out of half-sisters (Florence and Marguerite)and their daughters Irene and Sheer Grace are half-sisters out of half-sisters out of half-sisters!
 
Show wins: Won Best in Show with her Junior leg (with legs for both ADGA and AGS), then got two ADGA Grand Champions as a senior to finish her title this year (2015).
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2014: VEEE 90
2015: VVEE 89



GCH (pending confirmation) Fairlea Irene 6*D 6*M
 
Dragonfly RY Stonewall Jackson x GCH Fairlea Margereen
 
Irene's page
Buckskin/chamoisée, born 3/13/2013. Photos are from 2022, her seventh freshening, when she finished her GCH. I showed her only once as a junior, as a six-month-old kid, when she won Junior Grand Champion. As a younger senior, she won one Grand Champion and then accumulated 4 reserves until, at the age of nine years old, just this June (2022) she got her third GCH in a large entry of 52 senior does to finish her permanent championship. Still looking beautiful at nine years old!
 
Show wins: 1 Junior Grand Champion. 2 senior Grand Champion, and 4 reserves.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2015: VVEV 87
2017: VVVE 89
2019: VEVV 87



Fairlea Phoebe B Beebee 4*D 4*M
 
Fairlea Edmond Dantes x GCH Fairlea Linnet
 
Phoebe's page
Splashy buckskin-and-white doe with an incredible udder. Born 3/25/14.
 
Show wins: As a junior yearling she won two reserves. As a senior she has won two Grand Champions and reserves at SMDGA 8/?/20, and SVDGA 6/16/18.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2017: VEVE 90
2018: VEVE 91
2019: VEEE 90
2021: VEEV 90



Fairlea Sheer Grace
 
Dragonfly RY Stonewall Jackson x GCH Fairlea Princess Grace
 
Sheer Grace's page
Buckskin/Chamoisée doe, born 6/11/14. Photos of her second freshening, 2017. With the longest teats in my herd, she was really fun to hand milk,
but I sold her to Lori Zanin in Westport, MA. Later, I bought her back, because I haven't gotten doe kids from her mother since then and I missed
milking her beautiful, huge teats so much.
 
Show wins: Shown only once as a junior, she won her ADGA Junior Grand Champion leg and didn't need to go back until she became a senior.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2017: +VV+ 84



GCH Fairlea Minerva 2*D 2*M
 
Dragonfly RY Apache Tears x ARMCH Fairlea Troy
 
Minerva's page
3/2/16. Dark buckskin doe with black extending all the way to her tail, like her grandmother Flat Rocks Here For The Party. Shown three times as a Junior, she won two Reserves and the third time, Grand Champion and Best In Show! As a three-year-old second freshener she won two senior championships and a senior Reserve.
 
Show wins: ADGA: Jr Champion and Best in Show and 2 reserves. As a senior, a senior reserve and two grand champion awards.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2018 EVEE 89
2019 VVEE 90



Fairlea Bronwyn 4*D 4*M
 
Fairlea Prince Rainier x Fairlea Barbara
 
Bronwyn's page
Born 4/14/16. Black-and-white doe. Photos from 2020, her second freshening. More photos on Bronwyn's page. Bronwyn is now living with Nancy McRae in S. Strafford, VT.
 
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results: 2018 VVE+ 84



Fairlea Erin 3*D 3*M
 
Fairlea Edmond Dantes x SGCH Fairlea Eleanor
 
Erin's page
Born 5/13/16. Gold-and-white doe. Photos are from 2018, her first freshening.
 
Show wins: ADGA: Jr Champion and 1 junior reserve.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2018: VEVV 86
2019: +VVV86
2021: VEEE 90



GCH Fairlea Mhairi 6*M
 
Dragonfly R Thorin Oakenshield x GCH Fairlea Margereen
 
Mhairi's page
3/1/17. Buckskin-and-white doe. Side picture is from 2020, rear from 2023.
2018: Absolutely gorgeous, can't wait to see her first freshening!
2020: Well, her udder is not very big, but very well attached, and her structure and dairy characteristics are still so beautiful that she earned her two senior championship legs the first two times I showed her as a senior, 2020. The judges both commended her as just what a Nigerian ought to be: long, elegant, upstanding, strong, and looking like a "miniature Alpine." They both said she is the type that all Nigerian breeders should be striving for.
2021: Her udder is much bigger, still very well attached, and developing more medial division, so she is really fulfilling her early promise.
 
Show wins: ADGA: Jr Grand Champion and 1 junior reserve; 2 Senior Grand Champions and a senior Reserve.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results:
2019: VVVV 87
2021: VEVA 85



Fairlea Maia 3*D 3*M
 
Fairlea Edmond Dantes x GCH Fairlea Minerva
 
Maia's page
3/16/18. Dark buckskin doe. One of my few does ever to win as a first freshener - she took Reserve Senior Doe at the only show I took her to in 2020. She has a gorgeous body and very nice udder -- moderate size but well-attached with good division and large teats.
 
Show wins: ADGA: one junior reserve and a senior reserve at the only show I took her to in 2020.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results: 2021 +VEV 85



Fairlea Esmeralda 3*D 3*M
 
Fairlea Apollo x SGCH Fairlea Eleanor
 
Esmeralda's page
4/2/18. Cream doe with white belt. Esme had mastitis during her first freshening and looked too uneven to show for the rest of that year and the next, but in 2022 she
freshened with a truly exciting udder that looks a lot like my best-ever-udder of the past, Fairlea Fleur, who was her great-grandmother, through her grandfather,
Fairlea Jean Valjean. The side view is from 2020, her second freshening, and the udder picture is from 2019 right before she got mastitis. At the first show of 2022,
a double show, she was Best of Breed at both shows and now needs only one more win to finish her permanent championship.
 
Show wins: ADGA: one junior reserve. Senior wins: 2 times Grand Champion and Best of Breed at Eastern New York Dairy Goat Club in May, 2022.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results: 2021 VEEE 90



Fairlea Rhea 3*D
 
Fairlea Frederic Chopin x Fairlea Athena Ilia
 
Rhea's page
Born 4/9/19, chamoisée with white. Rhea is now living with Nancy McRae in S. Strafford, VT.
 
Show wins: Only shown once as a junior, she won Grand Champion Junior Doe and the judge commended her for her outstanding structure, saying that she was
the type that all Nigerian breeders should be striving toward. The side photo is from her first freshening in 2022, the rear view was taken by Joanne Karohl in 2023.
ADGA Linear Appraisal Results: 2021 VVV+ 86



Fairlea Margot
 
Fairlea Apollo x GCH Fairlea Margereen
 
Margot's page
Born 3/11/20, Chocolate buckskin with white. Hairy photos of her first freshening. Better ones next year, I hope!
 
Show wins: None yet.



Fairlea Philippa
 
Dragonfly SOL Capriccio x Fairlea Phoebe B Beebee
 
Philippa's page
Born 3/21/20, Chocolate buckskin with white. The side picture is as a yearling in 2021, rear view is her first freshening in 2022.
 
Show wins: Won her junior leg from a huge yearling class this year.



Dragonfly Dove
 
Dragonfly AV Mizuko x GCH Dragonfly SOL Vireo
 
Dove's page
Born 4/8/20, Chocolate buckskin, mostly white.
 
Show wins: None yet.



Fairlea Amazing Grace
 
Fairlea Frederic Chopin x Fairlea Sheer Grace
 
Maisie's page
Born 5/14/20, Buckskin/chamoisée with white.
 
Show wins: None yet.



Fairlea Edelweiss
 
Dragonfly Jack Sparrow x Fairlea Esmeralda
 
Edelweiss's page
Born 4/7/21, Cream with a white belt.
 
Show wins: Junior Grand Champion at Topsfield Fair 10/10/22, Reserve Junior Grand Champion at Topsfield Fair the day before, 10/9/22.



Fairlea Freya
 
Lost Valley HN Legacy x Fairlea Maia
 
Freya's page
Born 4/26/21, Dark buckskin.
 
Show wins: GCH and Best in Show as a Junior at Sunny Sisters double show 7/17/22.



Fairlea Janeen
 
Lost Valley HN Legacy x GCH Fairlea Irene
 
Janeen's page
Born 4/1/22, Dark buckskin and white
 
Show wins: None yet.



Fairlea Enya
 
Lost Valley HN Legacy x Fairlea Erin
 
Enya's page
Born 4/22/22, Gold and white
 
Show wins: None yet.

Oberhasli and Mini Obers




GCH Seraiah Farms' LHY Ailia *M
 
Cream-of-Kansas D Long Haul x Seraiah Farms' VW Yvette
 
3/6/2010 - 7/16/2016
 
Ailia's page
Red bay and black. Sadly, I lost my sweet Ailia at only six years old, from pregnancy toxemia. She left behind a lovely half-Nigerian daughter who I hope will carry on her personality, beauty, and tremendous milk production. The pictures are from fall, 2013, during the second year of Ailia's first lactation. I wanted to experience "big goats" and couldn't resist the elegant look of this breed. Thank you, Michael Covey, for this utterly sweet and lovely girl!
 
Show wins: I only took her to three shows in 2013, and she won GrCH and BB at all three and finished her CH at only three years old! This included one show with an empty udder; I got confused and milked her out for the Best in Show competition in the first ring of a two-ring show before we had been in the second ring. But she still won in the second ring!




Fairlea Clover *P (#3 on MDGA Top 5!)
 
Dragonfly RY Stonewall Jackson x GCH Seraiah Farms' LHY Ailia
 
Clover's page
5/30/14. Half-Oberhasli/half-Nigerian. Light red bay and black.
 




Fairlea Aura Lee *P
 
Dragonfly RY Stonewall Jackson x GCH Seraiah Farms' LHY Ailia
 
Auralee's page
7/16/16. Half-Oberhasli/half-Nigerian. Red bay and black. As Ailia's posthumus daughter, she has big shoes to fill! (Or should I say "hooves"?)