Gigi is one of those rare does who comes along and takes your breath away.  After a back injury late this summer, which took me out of the show ring and left Dale and my sister, Nancy, to do the showing, I was able to sit back and watch our does in the show ring.  It really gives you a different perspective on things.  Even if Gigi had not been our doe, she was a doe I could simply not take my eyes off of. She is very elegant in the show ring with those beautiful bell shaped ears, beautiful breed character, deep bodied with a wide chest, and a lovely mammary system.  Gigi has only given us one doeling, Nubilop Acres Gi's Lovely Lady, who will freshen as a first freshening two-year-old this spring. Gigi is the dam of our herdsire, Nubilop Acres Way Too Hot. Gigi was shown in Champion Challenge classes only in the 2008 show season winning 5X Best of Breed, 3X Best Udder of Breed, 1X Best Doe In Show, and 2X Best Udder In Show.  She was shown at the 2007 ADGA Nationals and placed 2nd in the 4-year-old class with 3rd place udder, as well as being part of the 2nd place Produce Of Dam and 2nd place Senior Get-Of-Sire. Her lifetime show record includes: 5xSenior Grand Champion, 10xBest-Of-Breed, 6xBest Udder-Of-Breed, 2xBest Senior Doe-In-Show and 3xBest Udder-In-Show. 

Nubilop Acres Simone

Simone is a very powerful doe with tremendous width in her chest and beautiful chest extension.  She is a little rough over her topline, but the power of this doe and the beautiful mammary system help to compensate for that. She has a very balanced udder with good height and width in rear attachment, proper placement of teats, and a very pretty fore udder extension.  She is the half sister of Gigi, sharing the same dam.  Simone was shown at the 2007 ADGA Nationals, placing 17th in the Three Year-Old class, as well as being part of the 2nd place Produce Of Dam.  She is so close to becoming a permanent champion, needing to win only one more leg.  Her show record in 2008 included some 1st udders of class, a Senior Reserve Champion, a Senior Grand Champion, Best of Breed, and Best Senior Doe in Show. Simone's lifetime show record includes: 3xReserve Grand Champion, Senior Grand Champion, Best-Of-Breed and Best Doe-In-Show. Perhaps next year will be her year to complete her permanent champion status.

Beautiful Lady showed as a 2nd freshening four year-old in 2008 as a result of not freshening her until she was two years of age and then having a false pregnancy as a three year-old.  Had she had one more freshening behind her, she would have classified Excellent.  Nevertheless, we were very happy with her classification scores.  We were concerned with the capacity of her mammary system as a 2nd freshener, competing against does that had four years of milk production behind them, but she held her ground very well.  She is another powerful doe, wide in the chest with lots of depth through her barrel.  She again has a very balanced mammary system, proper teat placement with a smooth fore udder extension and nice width to the rear udder.  I would like to see her rear udder attached just a little higher though.  She did very well for us in the 2008 show season winning 2xSenior Reserve Champion and 2xSenior Grand Champion. Her lifetime show record includes: 2xReserve Junior Champion, 2xJunior Champion, 2xBest Junior Doe-In-Show, 2xSenior Reserve Champion and 2xSenior Grand Champion. 

Nubilop Acres Oatmeal's Brandi

Brandi's dam, CH Nubilop Acres Oatmeal, is a littermate sister to Gigi.  Brandi is a first freshening two year-old, being level from hooks to pins with a flat rump, levelness of topline and nice width through her chest area.  She freshened with a nice, balanced mammary system.  She has good width in the rear and as usual, I would like to see a little more height to it. Her fore udder has good extension and is tight against her body.  She has nice teat placement but I would like to see her teats a little smaller for a first freshener.  She was shown seven times in 2008, going 2x1st, 2x2nd, 1x3rd, 2x4th, and Reserve Senior Champion.   

Lizzy disappointed us this spring when she kidded a month early which resulted in her missing the show season as well as classification.  I was really excited about showing her as I loved the looks of her as a yearling milker - she had it in general appearance and mammary system.  The only thing that bothers me just a little bit about Lizzy is her underbite.  I have to remind myself that there are permanent champions out there in the Nubian breed with an underbite. Lizzy is very affectionate and also a nuisance.  As a yearling milker in 2007, she freshened late so was only shown winning her class both times with 1st udder of class.  We feel that Lizzy has enough potential to remain in our herd and have given her a chance to prove herself.