Silver Hill Falcn Castanet

AA1219183     DOB: 3-25-01 COLOR: Cou clair (light neck)      SS: **+B Chateau De Ville's Gyrfalcon Sire: *B Singing-Hills Jus Falcn Around      SD: Sweet Dreams Profet's Effigy 3*M      DS: *B Walnut Fork PS Insubordination Dam: Silver Hill WFI Cassie      DD: Silver Hill Jeremiah Cassia AI 3*M

Castanet shows the production, capacity and power of her dam Cassie and granddam Cassia. She has a well attached, capacious udder. We love her temperament. She is my granddaughter Brenna's showmanship doe, and is willing to cooperate with being dressed up for costume classes and modeling the results of the arts & crafts activities we have for the youth at our VSDGA June Show.

Left: Castanet as a 2-year-old Right: Castanet as a yearling Below: Castanet does her bit for the youth show

Silver Hill KB Chocowinity

We were pleased with Chocowinity's smoothly attached udder as a yearling. She has the strength and dairyness of her dam line. That strength and capacity are really blooming in her as a two-year-old.

Reference Does:

SGCH Walnut Fork OS Onyx 7*M

(AA)     DOB: 4-91 DHIR: 4-10 305 3150 103 94              5-11 305 3310 110 99              LA: 3-02 EX 90 VEEE         5-02 EX 90 VEEV SHOW: 3X GCH, 1X BIS, 1X BOB, 3x BU COLOR: Black with white star (photo courtesy Lynn Benedict)

     SS: ++B Chateau de Ville's Gyrfalcon (linebred on 2X Nat'l Champion Snowbird)
Sire: +B Sweet Dreams Original Sin
     SD: Sweet Dreams Sasin Temptation (2-03 EX 90 VEVE)

     DS: +*B Sodium Oaks Xcell
D: GCH Walnut Fork Xcell Destruction 6*M
     DD: Paisley Park Yankee Revolution 5*M

I am indebted to Lynn Benedict for making this outstanding permanent champion doe available to me. She has an illustrious pedigree, an outstanding show record, including high placings and Performance Awards at the National Show, lifetime production of 2,521d, 22,440m, 779f, 694p, Spotlight Sale progeny, and a fore attachment that wouldn't quit! More of her lifetime performance can be found in the Walnut Fork Archives.

"Snakey" left us in the summer of 2004, after gifting us with a daughter, Black Opal.

Silver Hill Jeremiah Cassia AI 3*M

(A878640)     DOB: 3-17-92 DHIR: 4-00 305 4052 110 2.7 117 2.9 1996 ADGA Breed Leader in Milk SHOW: shown twice as 5-yr-old: 2X 1st place Aged Doe COLOR: cou blanc with a lot of white on her body. (blotchy areas in photo are actually white) (photo by Lynn Benedict, pictured at 5 years old)

      SS: GCH++*B Redwood Hills Marvelous Profet
Sire: ++*B Redwood Hills Profet Jeremiah
     SD: Redwood Hills Acclaim Samba 4*M (2-00 300 2960 85 2.9)

     DS: ++*B View Ridge Viking
Dam: Silver Hill VRV Chamomile AI 2*M (3-04 VG 88 VEVV, 5-00 305 3167 84 2.7 97 3.1)
      DD: Silver Hill Crystalsinger *M (1-05 84 +EV+, 2-01 294 2527 88 3.5)

Cassia proved her genetic potential for production and longevity. Like all of our Profet Jeremiah daughters she was long, tall, powerful, and sharp as a tack. Her triplet littermate, *B Silver Hill PJ Vindicator, is the sire of a 2X Grade Alpine Breed Leader; her other littermate, Cassius, was exported, as have been several of Cassia's sons and siblings.

We lost Cassia in the fall of 2003.

Silver Hill VRV Chamomile AI 2*M

(A713293)     DOB: 2-21-87 DHIR: 5-00 305 3167 84 2.7 97 3.1 LA: 3-04 VG 88 (VEVV) EX topline SHOW: 6X RGCH (1 leg), 1X BU, Best Dairy Herd In Show, '92 VA State Fair COLOR: sungau with cream/tan markings (photo by Dave Meggs)

     SS: ++*B Chateau De Ville's Vermeijen
Sire: ++*B View Ridge Viking
     SD: GCH Salzer's Capricorns Lola 4*M (10-01 87 VVVV, 2-01 305 2710 97 3.6)

     DS: Short Hill Magnum P.I.
Dam: Silver Hill Crystalsinger *M (1-05 84 +EV+, 2-01 294 2527 88 3.5)
     DD: Silver Hill PHM Dragonsong

Chamomile was with us for almost 15 years but it was necessary to put her down in the fall of 2001. She was both a productive and a very correct doe, although we never got a decent picture of her. She showed well against strong competition all her life, earning her CH leg under Dan Considine at the State Fair of Virginia. She grew more stylish with age. She excelled in strength of feet and pasterns, inherited from her famous granddam Lola. In old age her foreudder was still pocketless, her udder floor above the hocks and her rear legs and pasterns so correct that as a 10-year-old she was seen standing straight up on her hind legs to eat from tree branches. Over the years we exported 5 of her sons and daughters and she is the dam of our 1996 Breed Leader Cassia. Every doe in the herd except for Opal is a descendant of Chamomile.

Silver Hill Awesome Celine

(A1101704)     DOB: 5-18-97 COLOR: Chamoisee (udder pictured at 5 years old, 5th freshening)

     SS: ++*B Qu'Appelle Joi Acclaim
Sire: +*B Kara Kahl Awesome
     SD: Kara Kahl Bruiser's Apropos 5*M

      DS: ++*B Redwood Hills Profet Jeremiah
Dam: Silver Hill Jeremiah Cassia AI 3*M (4-00 305 4052 110 2.7 117 2.9, '96 Breed Leader)
      DD: Silver Hill VRV Chamomile AI 2*M (3-04 88 VEVV, 5-00 305 3167 84 2.7 97 3.1)

Celine is a powerful, correct doe, with a socked-in udder and her dam's great body capacity.

Celine has been sold.

     SS: *B Redwood Hills Pro Sundance
Sire: *B Walnut Fork PS Insubordination
      SD: Walnut Fork Xcell Insurrection 6*M (2-03 VG 89 VVVE, 0-11 296 1670 66 64,
              1-11 102 1040 34 34 IP)

      DS: ++*B Redwood Hills Profet Jeremiah
Dam: Silver Hill Jeremiah Cassia AI 3*M (4-00 305 4052 110 2.7 117 2.9, '96 Breed Leader)
      DD: Silver Hill VRV Chamomile AI 2*M (3-04 88 VEVV, 5-00 305 3167 84 2.7 97 3.1)

Cassie is large and capacious, like her dam, with the overall improvement of udder attachment and teat placement that Insubordination put on all his daughters. Her daughter Castanet remains in the herd.

Cassie has been sold.

Silver Hill Express Dark Opal

Opal has her dam's body, extremely dairy. She was our most productive milking yearlings in 2005. Opal is a maternal half sister of Walnut Fork Fire Opal 8*M (VG 88 at 2 yr. with EX Mammary), the highest selling female of any breed at the 1998 ADGA Spotlight Sale.

Thank you to Donna Kidd for providing the Express semen.

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