TMGR Conformation Clinic
An Educational Service Provided by The Miniature Goat Registry
Caprine Conformation Clinic
Evaluator: Virginia Johnson Gruver
Junior Does
Born in 2017
Entry #1
Evaluator comments:
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This doe appears to be pregnant which is affecting the levelness of the top line. In general appearance this doe is angular and smoothly blended throughout. She would benefit from more levelness over the area of the chine. She has prominent withers. She would also benefit with more extension and development of the brisket. Her rump is strong wide and nearly level from hips to pins and thurl to thurl. She is standing on straight, widely set apart and squarely placed front legs. Her rear legs are straight and well angulated when viewed from the side. She is perpendicular from hocks to pasterns. Her feet are strong and pointing forward. Her pasterns are strong all the way around.
In dairy character she is free of excess fleshing, showing a long, lean neck and is smoothly blended from the neck into the shoulders. In body capacity she is full in the crops, wide in the chest, deep in the heart girth and carries the width back into the area of the flank.
Entry #2
Evaluator comments:
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In general appearance this doe is standing taller at the withers than the rump, she is smoothly blended throughout and very angular. She is level at the top line. In the front end assembly she is showing a well developed brisket for her age. Her fore legs are straight, placed wide apart and squarely placed. She would benefit from her toes pointing forward and her hind legs being placed back just behind the pin bones with width between the hind legs. The proper placement of the rear legs would also level the rump from hips to pins. Her front legs are straight, set wide apart and squarely placed.
When viewed from the side her rear legs are well angulated. In dairy character she is deep in the heart girth and carries that depth back to the area of the flank. Withers are sharp and rising slightly above the shoulder blades. In body capacity she is wide in the chest and stands wide when viewed from the rear. This doe most closely meets the standard