Saanen Reference Does
Click on any animal's name for a link to their ADGA genetics page, including LA scores and DHI records.
The 2013 Herd
The 2011 Herd
SGCH Spinning Spider LC Chantal, SGCH Jug-Tavern's D. Edelweiss, SGCH Spinning Spider ABDM Halelujah, SGCH Spinning Spider APD Cassandra (2011 Reserve National Champion Saanen)
Changes
Sire: SGCH One-More Arizona Vision
Dam: GCH Rock-Point Hosannas Absolution
DOB: 2/27/11 FS 92EEEE @06-02 PTI21: 98 PTI12: 213 ETA21: -35 ETA12: 23
Changes was the herd matriarch and a farm favorite. She passed on her strength and depth to her progeny as well as her even temperament and sweet personality. Her 2013 AI outcross breeding to SG Des-Ruhigestelle Elander resulted in triplet does, two of which remain on the farm today. Those daughters, Heat Wave and Weather, have set the standard for our Saanen herd. In 2015 she had a difficult kidding that resulted in a mild bout of mastitis and her lifetime production totals reflects it. She is greatly missed.
Heat Wave
Sire: Des-Ruhigestelle Elander
Dam: SGCH Spinning Spider AV Changes
DOB: 3/11/14
01-05 VEEE 89 (FF)
03-01 EEEE 91
04-05 EEEE 91
05-04 FS EEEE 92
08-05 EEEV 91
01-04 265 2400 72 73
01-11 305 4059 124 123
02-11 305 5210 168 154 Top 10 Breed leader in milk, fat, and protein
04-00 284 4410 132 124
04-11 288 4750 113 137
05-11 305 4230 119 122
07-02 164 1964 56 55
07-11 296 3632 100 99
08-11 292 3606 107 108
Lifetime 9 lactations, 2,564 DIM, 34,554 lbs, 1003 F 1005 P
PTI21: 225 PTI12: 289 ETA21: 77 ETA12: 157
ADGA National Show Placings:
'17 10th 3yo
'17 5th Dam and Daughter
'18 12th 4yo
'18 Saanen Total Performer
'21 4th Aged Doe
'21 2nd Produce of Dam member
'21 Saanen Total Performer
'21 High 305 Milk, High 305 Butterfat, High Lifetime Milk
Heat Wave is the farm favorite for many reasons. She's got her dam's calm demeanor and loving personality. We believe this is one of the reasons she's been able to handle the stress of travel/showing along with life on our commercial dairy all while effortlessly maintaining extraordinary production. She is our top ten breed leader, 4th place at Nationals (2021), 92EEEE, 2018 AND 2021 ADGA National Show Total Performer doe, 2021 ADGA National Show high 305 milk, lifetime butterfat and lifetime milk. She is also the dam of the high selling Saanen buck at the 2018 Spotlight Sale. Her Breed Leader lactation of 5210 lbs has been part of a lifetime production of more than 1493 days in milk 21,080 lbs of milk, 619 BF and 619P. She accomplishes all this with an extremely correct general appearance that supports her productive mammary system. She has incredible depth and width, combined with an angular dairy frame. Her impact on our herd and others can be felt in the very consistent sons and daughters she has produced over the years. They all exhibit her beautiful front end and length of bone as well as her high, wide rear udder and near ideal teat placement.
Weather
Sire: Des-Ruhigestelle Elander
Dam: SGCH Spinning Spider AV Changes
DOB: 3/11/14
01-05 VEEE 88
03-01 EEEE 92
04-05 EEEE 92
05-04 FS VEEE 92
01-01 270 1940 57 54
02-00 305 3770 113 104
03-00 305 4520 135 120
04-00 302 3460 95 94
05-00 305 2961 71 79
05-11 305 3470 98 89
PTI21: 199 PTI12: 303 ETA21: 77 ETA12: 157
'17 11th 3yo ADGA Nat'l Show
Weather is littermate to Heat Wave and has kept up with or surpassed her sister every step of the way. Productive and extremely correct, Weather scored 92 three years in a row, has milked over 4500 lbs in a 305 lactation, and has provided us with several amazing sons and daughters. She's just as much of a total performer as her sister. Unfortunately uneven since a serious teat injury in 2017 as a 3yo, Weather has nothing to prove here. She's done it all and is one of our favorite does.
Weather and Heat Wave:
Heat Wave and her daughters:
Ritz
SGCH SPINNING SPIDER PUT ONTHE RITZ
Sire: Des-Ruhigestelle Elander
Dam: Jug-Tavern's D. Edelweiss
DOB: 3/11/14
01-05 +EVE 87
03-01 VEEE 91
05-04 VEEE 91
07-05 FS VEEE 92
01-01 305 2510 77 74
02-01 305 3730 119 102
686 8011 269 228 ext. lac.
03-11 286 3620 111 102
04-11 305 4250 111 110
05-11 305 3840 122 96
PTI21: 240 PTI12: 255 ETA21: 127 ETA12: 168
Ritz is one of a set of triplet does from an AI of Edelweiss to Des-Ruhigestelle Elander. Sharing the high, wide rear udder of her dam, she also shows strength and a tremendous will to milk. With several milk throughs and a lifetime of over 1,887 days in milk, 22,231 lbs of milk, 690 lbs BF, and 610 lbs P; Ritz proves she can milk! Ritz continues the trend of our Elander daughters excelling in the parlor, showring, and during LA sessions. Plus she's a sweetheart!
Tanya
Sire: Tempo Passa Catch the Wave
Dam: SGCH Des-Ruhigestelle Elenya
DOB: 3/24/15
04-04 VEVE 90
06-05 FS EEVE 91
02-8 190 2089 92 74
03-10 305 2827 91 85
04-11 305 2790 101 85
PTI21: 15 PTI12: 62 ETA21: -9 ETA12: 26
ADGA National Show Placings
'21 5th 5&6yo
'21 2nd Dam and Daughter (with Paparazzi)
Tanya is one of those impulse buys that I haven't ever regretted. Incredibly long and level, with her high head and imperious nature, Tanya certainly makes her
presence known here. Daughter of Elenya, she looks more like her mother every day. Beyond the show ring, she's proven herself as a brood doe, producing several lovely daughters, including a
National Show class winner!
Starstruck
Sire: GCH Noble-Springs SET Anubis
Dam: SG Spinning Spider Got That Swing
DOB: 3/26/18
01-04 +VVE 87
03-05 EEEE 91
04-05 EEEE 92
01-01 305 1560 43 49
02-00 294 3020 114 93
PTI21: 127 PTI12: 104 ETA21: 42 ETA12: 24
ADGA National Show Placings:
'21 7th 3yo
'21 2nd Saanen Dairy Herd member
Our favorite milking yearling in 2019, Starstruck has turned into a deep, productive and correct 3yo. We particularly appreciate the width of rear udder that she shows as well as the soundness of her general appearance. Something of an outcross on her sire's side, she was a strong member of our Dairy Herd this year at Nationals.
Paparazzi
Sire: Spinning Spider Honky Tonkin
Dam: GCH Tempo Passa Elentanya
DOB: 1/25/19
02-07 VEEE 89 (FF)
03-07 EEEE 92
04-07 EEEE 92
ETA21: 12 ETA12: 50
ADGA National Show Placings:
'21 1st, 3rd Udder 2yo
'21 2nd Saanen Dairy Herd member
'21 3rd Best 3 Sr Does member
'21 3rd Sr Get of Sire (with Lego and Mainline)
'21 2nd Dam and Daughter (with Tanya)
Razzi was special from the get go. Born with her mother's attitude, she was a (un-shown) fancy dry yearling. This year she kidded with a lovely udder to go with her amazing GA. She proved this by going BIS in one ring of our Spring show, and followed that up by winning her class at Nationals! Razzi was also the anchor for our group classes, helping us have an extremely successful National Show in '21.
Posh
Sire: Spinning Spider Honky Tonkin
Dam: GCH Tempo Passa Elentanya
DOB: 1/25/19
02-07 VEVE 88
03-07 VEVE 90
01-03 238 1500 47 45
ETA21: 12 ETA12: 50
Yet another exciting Honky Tonkin daughter, Posh was our first fresh Elentanya daughter. Beautifully sharp and balanced, Posh also has a charmingly friendly personality to go with her general appearance and production. While she didn't make it to a show this year, she certainly proved her worth in the parlor and during our LA session.
Lyfe
Sire: Spinning Spider Wayward Son
Dam: SG Spinning Spider Lyresto
DOB: 3/21/19
02-05 VEEE 90
02-05 VEVE 89
01-02 224 1730 54 45
Lyfe looks so much like her mother as a young doe, it's startling. She shows the same elegant high headedness and smooth general appearance. She also shares her mother's tendency towards working hard and not carrying excess weight.
Lego
Sire: Spinning Spider Honky Tonkin
Dam: SGCH Spinning Spider AV CHanges
DOB: 4/26/19
02-04 VEEE 89 (FF)
ETA21: 59 ETA12: 155
ADGA National Show Placings:
'21 6th 2yo
'21 2nd Saanen Dairy Herd member
'21 3rd Best 3 Sr Does member
'21 3rd Sr Get of Sire (with Razzi and Mainline)
'21 2nd Produce of Dam (with Heat Wave)
A dry yearling in '20, Lego freshened this year with a stunning mammary. Maternal half sister to Weather, and line bred on Heat Wave, we had high hopes for her. She proved us right when she stood 6th at Nationals and scored 89 VEEE as a FF this summer! An absolute sweetheart, we're still working on the whole "walking gracefully in the show ring" part of things.
Losing Lego during kidding in '22 was incredibly difficult, but at least she lives on in her daughter.
Coma
Sire: Tempo Passa Espionage
Dam: Spinning Spider Can't Let Go
DOB: 2/19/21
01-06 VVVV 86 (FF)
Coma looks so much like her mother it hurts. She's long and stylish, with a lovely young udder. She's certainly a promising young doe.
Caldonia
Sire: Tempo Passa Eryx
Dam: Spinning Spider HP Chatelaine
DOB: 2/26/21
02-07 EEVE 89
03-06 VEVE 88
Prague
Sire: Tempo Passa Entourage
Dam: Spinning Spider EH Pokerface
3/1/21
02-06 VEVV 87 (FF)
03-05 VVVG 87
Ellie
Sire: Vineyard View Kojack Trident
Dam: SGCH Spinning Spider Stormy Weather
DOB: 3/10/16 FS 92EEEE @ 03-04 PTI21: 148 PTI12: 184 ETA21: 50 ETA12: 71
Ellie doesn't need much introduction in our herd. After her win in the 2 year old class at the 2018 Nationals, shes gone on to win BIS 7 times in her young show career. With her incredible general appearance (she glides around the barn and the show ring) and with her stunningly productive and shapely udder, there's no question why. She's longer with a more level topline, more correct in the front end, stronger on her feet and legs, and has one of the better rear udders in the herd. Except for her tendency to not give us doe kids, there's not much I would change about her! We are very excited to see what her 2019 AI son by Des-Ruhigestelle SocialClimber can do for our herd. We will be using him significantly this fall. Ellie had an extremely rough 2020 kidding so we are grateful she's still with us and hope we can bring her back into the show ring in 2021.
Foxy
Sire: Vineyard View Kojack Trident
Dam: SGCH Spinning Spider EL Heat Wave
DOB: 2/15/16 FS 90VEEE @03-05 PTI21: 56 PTI12: 105 ETA21: 64 ETA12: 67
Littermate to Honky Tonkin and Purple Haze, Foxy has always been a farm favorite. With her massive scale and strength of bone, she certainly stands out in the show ring. While her udder is as beautifully shaped as her mother and sisters, her production reflects having been a precocious dry yearling with mild mastitis.
Halelujah
SGCH Spinning Spider ABDM Halelujah
Halelujah was one of Cullen's favorites. We loved her general appearance. While not an extremely tall doe, her smoothness of blending particularly in the front end assembly was exceptional. She also had a lovely udder, especially well attached and high in the rear. This is a trait she consistently passes onto her daughters. 2013 ADGA National show, second place with second udder in the aged doe class.
Praise
SGCH Spinning Spider HW Praise
Praise was our first Halelujah daughter and was very similar to her dam. Her udder had the same height and strength of overall attachment and she carried the same lovely general appearance of Halelujah. If there's one area of the scorecard in which she excelled her mother it was in body capacity, particularly in her depth of rear barrel. She produced lovely sons and daughters, including the 2013 Jr National Champion Saanen, Spinning Spider Hawk's Hotlips.
Hotlips
Providence
Providence is a Halelujah daughter by Noble-Springs Zeppelin. 2014 was her year to rise in the show ring, easily finishing her permanent champion status and her superior genetics. She beat her half sister, Gratitude, in the ring at the 2014 ADGA Nationals and has matched her production step for step. In 2016 she was second place with second udder 5-6 year old milker at nationals. Her son Spinning Spider AP Babylon has been retained for use in our herd.
Edelweiss
SGCH Jug-Tavern's D. Edelweiss
Edelweiss was purchased as a kid from Will Pearson's fine Saanen herd. As a yearling she stood second in her milking class with first place udder at the 2010 ADGA national show. Her udder has continued to improve as she's aged into a beautiful doe. She's a long and powerful with depth of body. Along with her many BIS show wins, she's been a foundation doe for the herd and consistently one of our best producers with high protein and butterfat. She stood 6th place in the 4 year old Saanen class at the 2013 ADGA National show and 9th in the 5-6 year old class at the 2014 Nationals and has been anchor to most of our dairy herd wins. Added to that, she won the high 305 butterfat award at the 2014 Nationals. What we love most about Edelweiss is that her daughters follow in her footsteps, both in production and type.
Best Three Sr. Does
SGCH Spinning Spider LC Chantal, SGCH Spinning Spider ABDM Halelujah, SGCH Spinning Spider APD Cassandra
Cassandra
2011 Reserve National Champion Saanen
SGCH Spinning Spider APD Cassandra
Cassandra exemplifies the type of Saanen doe we breed for. She was sharp, angular and naturally uphill with smooth shoulders and a deep brisket. She was also deep bodied and beautifully proportioned. Over 7 lactations her udder remained high, wide and well attached. Unfortunately, kidding season 2012 proved too much for her. We miss her but know that through her progeny she has contributed to that "Spinning Spider" look so many of our Saanen does now carry.
Chantal
SGCH Spinning Spider LC Chantal
Chantal was the total package of our breeding program. Appraising 92EEEE in 2011 as a three year old second freshener and 91EEEE after a long trip to the 2012 Nationals in Colorado, we felt she had the potential to surpass Cassandra. This was no surprise as her dam, Chloe, is a paternal half sister to Cassandra with similar dam lines. Along with her lovely style and conformation was a tremendous will to milk even with a challenging show schedule. We lost Chantal on Christmas day 2013. It was a tremendous blow to our family as she was truly cherished. On a bright note, in 2013 she kidded with triplet daughters who are proving themselves every day. Her 2012 buck kid, Spinning Spider Fortunate Son now has milking daughters in the herd that also reflect Chantal's conformation and production.