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Family homestead dairy breeding ADGA Nubians and offering goat milk/products and duck eggs, plus the occassinal litter of LGD puppies.

We also have a herd of rescue horses.

10/30/2026

Our fifth doe due in January is, Kansas Bluestem Parade Trinket.

Trinket has been a phenomenal yearling milker. She easily met the requirements to earn her star in all three categories. She, in following the footsteps of her dam and granddam, is one of our highest component producers. Trinket's teats are the perfect length and nearly perfectly placed for our preferences. We'd like to see some improved lateral and foreudder attachment in her offspring, which is what drove her buck selection this year. She's a very tall and dairy doe that does lack some strength, but we hope she will gain some with maturity.

Trinket is bred to her dam's paternal brother, Kansas Bluestem Kalua Pua'a. For those that follow, you know we call him Pig, because he was such a pig as a bottle baby. Pig adds width to frames while maintaining dairy quality. His dam had a socked on, and super high udder, which we hope to see in Pig's daughters, though we don't have any fresh yet. This is a line breeding on some beautiful west coast animals!

Trinket is youth owned by Knox, and her first doeling will be retained for use in 4-H this year. After County Fair, we will evaluate our kid crop and may have to cut a few retained girls. If you're interested in being on the contact list for that, please fill out the contact us form on our website and mention that in the comments. (https://www.bluestemacresks.com/contact-us)

Buckling reservations from Trinket are open. Additional information on purchasing a kid from us can be found here: https://www.bluestemacresks.com/breeding-plans

10/30/2026

This extended KS summer and continued 80 degree days into the end of October has really messed with our fly population. We've usually had enough cooler days that the flies are decreasing in number by now, but they just kept multiplying, despite refreshed traps and continued use of fly predators (though we did miss one predator dispersal). While it's embarrassing to show the number of flies we've been dealing with for the last couple weeks, it is rewarding to see this many dead in a 24-hour period. The barn is virtually fly free tonight... not 100%, but noticeably less flies and much more manageable.

PT Alpine Pressurized Fly Bait... get you some. No mixing, no washing the sprayer out after you use it (nothing against the Agita 10, but those are our biggest complaints), and you can have noticeably less flies in a matter of hours! (Yes, all those black specs on the ground are dead flies... hundreds of them!)

[This is not a paid endorsement... I wish it was!]

10/27/2026

We counted our goats, and there are too many!

If you are in the market for quality breeding stock, we have two does who are available to the perfect home. We will be picky on where they land. One will be in milk beginning in mid-November, the other is confirmed bred and due in January. Kids from the one due in November could be included, and/or we can pick a buck kid from another doe due in November to set you up with a nice starter herd. Additional doe kids from other does due in November can be added on in as well.

Transport opportunities:
- Arkansas in late/mid-November may be available along with another goat already going that direction; I am not privy to the cost of that trip.

- Missouri/Joplin area may be available in early December at very low cost to you.

This is not a "throw away" pair and the price reflects that. Please inquire if you are interested in quality genetics.

10/27/2026

Continuing on our January due date hit parade... we have something special today.

This is RDR NE Coffee Bean, bred to CH (pend) MDNT WK U4Rik Glow! U4rik finished his championship last weekend at the Strutt the Rutt show, against a tough Nubian crowd. He is owned by our good friend, Brandy Rigg of Food4Thought Dairy Goats in Douglass, KS. We are so grateful that she shares her boys with us sometimes!

Coffee is one of Kathryn's does. We have two other daughters already, and plans to retain one from this breeding as well. Coffee has a very beautiful mammary, but needs more capacity. Coffee also needs a bit more dairyness and overall frame size. She's quite petite, which was great for Kathryn when she was younger, but she's grown up now and ready to breed some size into her lines.

U4rik should check all the boxes for what Coffee needs to improve. We've seen some kids, and they have excellent substance of bone and width, while keeping phenomenal dairyness.

Coffee is confirmed bred by blood test and ultrasound indicates possible twins. First doeling is retained. First buckling reservation and second doeling reservation is open. Please message us for additional information.

10/26/2026

The smug mug after the baby buck has his job all figured out...

10/26/2026

Growing like weeds!
3 boys (top row) and 3 girls (bottom row). Fat little floofs since there are only six of them. I genuinely love raising these smaller litters- each puppy gets more one on one attention, and the weeks fly by.

10/23/2026

We can always count on Ethel to let us know that the food is good!
*sound on for cute goatie nom noms*

10/23/2026

This third January due date breeding highlight is Kansas Bluestem Sunkissed Lulu, bred to Kansas Bluestem MS Edison.

Lulu is an impressive 2yr old first freshener this year, who met her milk star requirements in all three categories in less than 250 days in milk. She takes after her dam in udder shape and teat placement, but seems to be a little more diary in physical type. That dairyness is coming from her sire-side. Lulu is a slow to mature girl who has taken her time growing into her frame. We appreciate her length of neck, well balanced front end assembly and foreleg, and mammary capacity. She's also a low casein allele carrier, making her an integral part of our low casein breeding project.

Lulu is bred to Edison. Edison is out of our barn favorite, and first Nubian to carry our herdname, Kansas Bluestem Ethel. Ethel is a large doe, with a tremendous will to milk and a soft, supple mammary system that's pleasing to milk by hand. Ethel is also a high butterfat producer in our herd, and so far her progeny have been as well. We hope Edison passes on her butterfat genetics. Edison's sire is Blissberry Macapuno Sunrise. Puno is son to Blissberry Rise & Shine, a beautiful EX 92 doe (at 4-05), with a gorgeous and productive mammary, sporting a rear udder height score of 48 and a rear udder arch score of 38.

We're hoping that this cross can improve udder shape and teat placement, as well as adding some length to Lulu's top line. Edison is also homozygous for low casein alleles, making this cross highly likely to produce homozygous low casein progeny.

First doe kid from this pairing will be retained. We will be casein testing doe kids and test results will be considered in our selection of retained doeling, so if you place a doe kid reservation on this breeding, understand that you will not know which doe kid is yours until after AS1C results are back and those can take up to six weeks during kidding season (average return time is two weeks). Buck kid reservations are also open for this breeding.

Please see our website for reservation terms and conditions, and our breeding plan table with pricing information.
https://www.bluestemacresks.com/breeding-plans

10/20/2026

Who's this new boy?!

Introduction to come and maybe a better picture after he's had a chance to settle in, and I can trim his hooves.

Address

10790 SW 15th Street
Towanda, KS
67144

Website

https://www.bluestemacresks.com/

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