TMGR Conformation Clinic
An Educational Service Provided by The Miniature Goat Registry
Caprine Conformation Clinic
Evaluator: Donna Elkins
Dry Yearlings
Entry # 1
Evaluator comments:
This senior doe is showing excellent balance and symmetry for her breed. She has sufficient width in the chest and correct front end assembly with a neck laid properly into the withers and legs set properly beneath her in front with elbows tight to the body. As we view her from the top, we see she blends well from shoulders into full crops with spring of rib increasing through the rear barrel. She is wide from hips to pins. We would improve her angularity and dairy strength with greater length of body and cleaner thighs with more sharpness at the pins and more incurving at the thigh. In feet and legs she is very correct in the rear with well angulated stifles and perpendicular from hock to pastern. In breed character I would add drop and length to the ears. Overall a very smoothly blended doe standing on strong legs and feet.
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Entry # 2
Evaluator comments:
This doe has good breed character about the head with her convex nose and deep jaw. Her length of ear is sufficient and perhaps we would add some length there and some width through the muzzle. Her length of body is also adequate but we would like to see more increasing depth to the flank. In body capacity she would benefit from greater spring of rib and fullness through the crops. In general appearance I would like to see her higher at the withers than the hips with greater levelness over the loin. In feet and legs she is standing on strong, straight front legs and rear legs are well angulated at the stifle. Improvement there would come from being more perpendicular from hock to pastern. She is showing good height of escutcheon with good size and shape to teats.
Entry # 3
Evaluator comments:
This doe gains her body capacity with her width over the top and depth increasing to the flank. She is showing nice length of neck in balance with her length of body and length of rump. She blends well from shoulders to ribs where her spring of rib and width from thurl to thurl give her angularity when viewed from the top. From the rear she is showing good height and width of escutcheon and width between thighs. Improvement here would include greater levelness from thurl to thurl. In legs and feet I would like to see toes set more properly forward with rear legs more perpendicular from hock to pastern. In breed character she has desirable ear length and convex nose with depth to jaw, scoring well in that area.
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Entry # 4
Evaluator comments:
Here we have a doe that reminds us of the beauty of an upstanding and angular doe. She demonstrates her dairy strength with that long, lean neck set well into prominent withers that are higher than her hips, allowing her to maintain that angularity as we view her from the side. She is showing sufficient width in the chest with shoulders laid on well and smoothly blending in to full crops. She is straight in her front legs and well angulated at the stifle in her rear legs with incurving thigh and a correct set from hock to pastern. Her spring of rib increases through the rear barrel blending to wide hips and rump. She shows sufficient width of escutcheon with good definition to pins. In breed character I would give her more drop to that ear set and greater width between the eyes. With her angularity and dairy strength, she will be closest to ideal in this group.