Leased Buck for 2013:  Pleasant Grove Zen Wingnut
(D.O.B. 3/5/2011)

Sire: YBNVS Revoluntionary Zen
Sire's Sire: Hoach's Revolution
Sire's Dam: Hill N Holler Navarre Zoe

Dam: CH Kickapoo Valley Saga Whimper - EX 92 EEEE
3rd Place 7+ Over Aged Doe, 2013 ADGA National Show
3rd Place 5-6 Year Old, 2013 ADGA National Show
Dam's Sire: ++*B Pleasant Grove Super Saga
Dam's Dam: Kickapoo Valley Gold Vision

Link to Wingnut's Full Pedigree

             
Wingnut's Dam: CH Kickapoo Valley Saga Whimper - 5-06 EX 92 (EEEE)

Whimper is one of our favorite does in the Pleasant Grove herd. Not only is she a beautiful doe, but she also has tremendous size, dairy strength, and presence.  Wingnut himself is tall and upstanding with excellent length of bone, dairy character, and style.  He is also a paternal brother to our own Pleasant-Grove Zen Xercise who is a promising 2-year old.  Xercise was Reserve Senior Champion at the 2013 MN State Fair and the third place milking yearling at the 2012 National Show.  We are very excited and thankful for the opportunity from Pleasant Grove to use Wingnut this fall.

Kickapoo-Valley Sinful Doright
(D.O.B. 4/1/2013)

Sire:  PJ-Bailey's Charming Assassin
Sire's Sire:  CH Windrush Farms IRS Charmer
Sire's Dam:  GCH PJ-Bailey's Sulten Anzella - 5-05 92 (EEEE)

Dam:  Kickapoo-Valley Canadian Lady - 8th Place Milking Yearling, 2013 National Show
Dam's Sire:  Kickapoo-Valley HL Lord Whimsey
Dam's Dam:  CH Kickapoo-Valley Jagged Zamboni -3-04 91 (EVEE)

Link to Doright's Full Pedigree

        
Doright's Dam:  Kickapoo-Valley Canadian Lady

We saw something special in Doright's dam at the spring club show in Janesville, Wisconsin, and admired her dairy refinement, long, elegant neck, and beautiful mammary system.  She stood first of 12 milking yearlings in one ring at that show, and the competition was fierce.  Canadian Lady's sire, Lord Whimsey, has done outstanding things is Cathy Mabie's Roeburn herd.  Lady's dam, Zamboni, was a top show doe in the Kickapoo Valley herd.  This young buck is very strong on his feet and legs and has a beautiful front end.  We'll be using him on a good number of our junior does as well as some targeted breedings with our older animals as well. 
  

  Kara-Kahl Antonio
(D.O.B. 4/3/2011)

Sire: ++*B Willow Run GB Juan Carlos  2-04 90 (VEE)
                 Sire's Sire: Sweet Dreams Golden Boy
                 Sire's Dam: SGCH Willow Run Apache Josefina - 7-03 92 (EEEE)
1st Place 4 Year Old, 2004 National Show

        Dam: CH Kara-Kahl Sauvignon Aware  7-04 92 (EEEE)
                 Dam's Sire: Kara-Kahl Sauvignon
                 Dam's Dam: Kara-Kahl Loyal Arilla

Link to Antonio's Full Pedigree


      
     Left:  Kara-Kahl Antonio 2-02 VG 89 (VEE) 2013
Right: Antonio's Paternal Granddam, GCH Willow Run Apache Josefina

Antonio is a long-bodied, dairy, and very correct young buck.   His predigree is linebred on ++*B Sweet Dreams Golden Boy and we are excited to see how he crosses on several of our does this fall.  His first milking daughter in our herd, Kara Kahl Antonio's Siri is long, tall, and elegant.  She was the first place milking yearling at the 2013 MN State Fair and won her first
championship leg at the fall Bluff Country Show.

Antonio has now been collected by Biogenics. 
Semen is available from us.  $15/Straw or $5/$75

    Reference Sires - Alpines

  Pleasant-Grove Amen Longitude
(DOB 2/9/2010)

       Sire:  Pleasant-Grove Act Menancing
           Sire's Sire:  *B Center-Stage WRR Act 1
           Sire's Dam:  CH Pleasant-Grove RCS Minor  
           3-04 92 (EEEE)

       Dam:  CH Pleasant-Grove SSO Length - 5-07 EX 92 (EEEE) 
            2011 Reserve National Champion
           Dam's Sire:  Pleasant Grove Super Standout
           Dam's Dam:  SGCH Pleasant Grove RCS Lesson

Link to Longitude's Full Pedigree

Longitude - Fall 2012

 Longitude's Dam:  CH Pleasant-Grove SSO Length, 2011 Reserve National Champion

We greatly admired Length for her strong, long, and correct frame, and her beautiful mammary system.  We see a lot of potential in our Amen daughter, A & W, and see the sire's side of Longitude's pedigree complementing our genetics well.

  Longitude sired our 1st place Intermediate Kid at the 2013 National Show, Kara-Kahl PGL Almond.  He also sired the 1st place Junior Kid and 3rd place Senior Yearling!  We are very excited about the promise these young does exhibit and are excited about freshening them next spring!

++*B Pleasant-Grove Super Saga  3-03 EX 90 VEE
(4 X National Premier Sire Alpine)

Sire:  Pleasant-Grove Liasion Superior

Dam:  SGCH Stardust Cordite Saba 13*M - FS 93

Link to Saga's Full Pedigree


1st Place Senior-Get-of-Sire, 2013 National Show

We bought 5 more straws of Saga this year after watching our Saga daughter, Ajuja, mature into a lovely, competitive doe. We were pleased that she could be a part of the 1st place Senior Get, a win that truly demonstrates the lasting influence this buck has had on the Alpine breed.  Saga is increasingly in the background of many of our Alpine pedigrees.

SG ++*B Sweet Dreams Golden Boy  3-04 89 E+E

Sire: SG++*B Chateau De Ville's Gyrfalcon
   Sire's Sire: ++*B Tenmile Maara's Villain
   Sire's Dam:  Chateau De Ville's Snowgoose

Dam: Chateau's Wild Thing 7-03 86 EVV+
     Dam's Sire: ++*B Chateau De Ville's Blackberry
     Dam's Dam: Chateau De Ville's Trevor

Link to Golden Boy's Full Pedigree

Golden Boy has sired many champion offspring over the years. He is closely linebred on the highly influential GCH Wa-Shaw-Me Snowbird and was used most extensively by the Sunshine herd. Other notable daughters include CH Iron-Rod Golden Style, who appraised 91 EEEE and Hoach's Golden Longing, who appraised 89 VVVE. Golden Boy is listed here because is he is found multiple times in the extended pedigrees of some of our best Alpines.  We still have several straws in the tank!