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Caprine Conformation Clinic

 

Evaluator:  Jean Harrison

Dry Yearlings

Entry #1

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Evaluator comments:

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This is an upstanding, powerful, yet smoothly blended yearling. She has a broad head, with good width between the eyes, a wide, strong muzzle with full nostrils. She is long boned and long bodied, with good depth of body and spring of rib increasing into the flank, capacity and excellent width through the crops, loin and rump. When viewed from the front, she exhibits a wide chest and strong, straight legs and feet. When viewed from the rear, she stands on straight real legs with feet forward, and a wide escutcheon.

 

I would suggest breeding this doe to a buck who is known to improve the set of leg; In the front, to have the legs set more squarely under the shoulders and tighter against the chest wall, and in the back legs, improvement in the angulation in the rear legs from stifle to hock.

Entry #2

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This yearling exhibits commendable body capacity throughout in proportion to her age and size. She has a deep, wide chest, is full in the crops and heart girth, and has depth of barrel through to the flank. When viewed from above, the width in her loin is evident, as is her long, wide rump which is uniformly wide in the hips and thurls and nearly level from side to side. When viewed from the front and rear, she stands on strong, straight legs with clean knees with feet pointed forward and toes tight. 

 

I would suggest breeding this doe to a buck who improves strength in the front and rear pasterns and introduces better angulation in the rear legs from stifle to hock to help in leveling out the topline, especially in the height of the rump relative to the withers. Additional areas to focus on when choosing a buck to breed her to are femininity, and dairy strength in terms of angularity, flatness of bone and openness of rib.

Entry #3

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This long bodied, deep chested yearling exhibits depth of heart, and fullness at the point of elbow. She is strong over the topline in the area of the chine and loin, with withers that are slightly higher than the hips. When viewed from above, she exhibits full crops, a wide loin, good spring of rib and a very long, uniformly wide rump. When viewed from the side, she has strong pasterns and feet with hoof soles that are uniform in depth from toe to heel. Her head is strong, with good set of the eyes and a wide muzzle.

 

I would suggest breeding this doe to a buck that is known to improve the straightness of leg; Front legs straighter when viewed from the front and set more squarely under the body with toes pointed forward, and rear legs straight with toes pointed forward when viewed from the rear.

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