TMGR Conformation Clinic
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Caprine Conformation Clinic
Evaluator: Donna Elkins
Senior Does 2
Senior Does in milk
Entry #8
Owner comments:
Evaluator comments:
This doe is excelling in dairy strength and general appearance. She is exhibiting a long and lean neck in proportion to her length of body with excellent depth of heart and flank. She is strong and straight in front legs with prominent withers and elbows held in close to the body. Her width of chest is followed by fullness in the crops and ribs well sprung and increasing in width toward the rear. Her pins are well defined with an incurving thigh and her correct angularity can be viewed from all sides and top. I do not have a view of the pasterns to evaluate that trait. She is wide and rounded through the escutcheon and carries that mammary high and well attached to the body proper. Her teat size and shape are very desirable with excellent placement.
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Entry #9
Evaluator comments:
This doe is long and lean standing on strong feet and legs. She would improve her score by having more width throughout- in the chest and greater spring of rib increasing back with greater width through the escutcheon. In breed character she has nice length of ear and convex nose. In mammary she has a strong medial with the udder carried well above the hocks. In attachment it appears she could benefit from smoother blending of the fore udder and higher attachment in the rear. She is strong in her topline which will be of benefit as she continues to mature.
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Owner comments: Currently milking once daily, FF
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Entry #10
Evaluator comments:
This two year old is showing excellent body capacity with her width, spring of rib and depth of flank. She is clean about the throat blending well into the wide chest. In feet and legs I would like to see those front legs stronger and straighter as we view her from the side and tighter in the toe. In rear legs I would look for a more well angulated stifle and incurving thigh. She is wide and open through the escutcheon which allows for a well attached mammary with good fore udder extension as well. Teat size and shape are very balanced, as is the udder. Medial is strong with clear delineation of udder halves.
Owner comments: 2yr FF 3 months fresh
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Entry #11
Evaluator comments:
Here we have a doe that really excels in dairy strength as well as general appearance with an excellent mammary system. In dairy strength she has a long, lean neck blending well into a strong front end assembly which is wide in chest with strong front legs smoothly blended at the shoulder with prominent withers. She is a very angular doe as we view her from the top with full crops and well sprung ribs and a strong topline. She is wide from hips to pins and high and wide through the escutcheon. In mammary, she is showing excellent capacity with high and strong attachment in rear and laterally and to add more strength I would improve that attachment of the fore udder extension. Her medial has good length but we might like to see the udder just a bit more consistent in width at the floor. She is strong in breed character in her straight face and gopher ears.
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Entry #12
Evaluator comments:
This doe excels in mammary in proportion to her size with an udder that is showing high and wide attachment in the rear with a smoothly attached fore udder carried well above the hocks. The capacity is excellent for her size and her strong medial with proper length supports a mammary that is consistent in width throughout. Teat shape, size and placement are desirable. Her length of body and length of neck are balanced, but greater levelness of rump is needed to balance that length in the rear. She would benefit from smoother blending at the shoulder back through the crops, but is showing nice spring of rib and increases in width from chest to hips. In breed character she has good width between the eyes and width and depth of jaw and would excel with more length and drop to the ear.
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Owner comments: Currently milking once daily
Entry #13
Evaluator comments:
This moonspotted doe is showing desirable breed character with her roman nose and depth and width of jaw. We certainly would like to see more length of ear but her head overall scores well in that area. Her width and depth- body capacity- is adequate for her size. From these photos it is difficult to evaluate her angularity and width over the top, but even from the rear she appears to increase in width from shoulders through the hips. Her width between front legs is good but could be straighter from knee to pastern. I would like to see her more open through the escutcheon but the mammary is attached high in the rear and medial is strong yet a bit short , creating more of a cleft where mammary tissue is preferred. Extension of fore udder appears correct but she would benefit from more lateral attachment as the udder is tipped a bit forward in these views.
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Entry #14
Evaluator comments:
This doe is excelling in her dairy strength with length of body and length of bone. She is long and lean of neck, laid correctly into withers and blended smoothly into the body. She is high and sharp in the withers, full at point of elbow with strong, straight front legs and good width of chest. She is level in topline with balanced length to the rump, adding to her general appearance score. Her spring of rib from full crops back through the barrel into wide hips gives her angularity as we view her from the top. From the rear, we would like to see her more level from thurl to thurl. In mammary I would like to see more lateral attachment and more extension of the fore udder. In medial we see good definition of udder halves, but a longer medial would improve the overall capacity and width of udder floor. In breed character she scores well with that roman nose and deep, wide jaw and perhaps we would add some length and drop to her nicely shaped ears.
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