Show record: 1 x National Grand Champion,
3 X Grand Champion,
1 x Reserve Champion, 6 X 1st
HES: 90.0 "Excellent" (90 90 89) 7/3/03

Well what can we say about Red, that he hasn't already stated himself? We are so very proud of this buck, he has surpassed even our wildest dreams for him. Starting out with winning his first Grand Champion leg as a Jr. at only 12 weeks old last year to winning his 2nd this spring. Then he ended our 2003 show season by not only winning his 3rd Grand Champion leg for his Master Champion status, Red also captured the 2003 AGS National Champion title as a yearling buck with very tough competition in the show ring.
Harvey Considine really liked this buck when he did Red's first HES, saying that in his opinion this little guy was the best one in our herd. It sure looks like Harvey was right on!
His dam, Nesselrode earned her star in 2002. She placed 3rd out of nine Nigerian does who made the honor roll in the Michigan milk test awards. His sire's side goes back into none other than 2 time National Champion Buck Goodwood Tom Thumb. Maybe Red is following in his Grand Sire's hoof prints!

HES: 89.15 "Very Good" (90 88 89) 7/3/03
Show Record: 4 x Grand Champion Buck,
2 x Reserve Champion Buck
2 x Champion Jr. Buck, 2 x Reserve Champion Jr. Buck, 10 x 1st place  

Keiki is a buck who excels in dairy character and general appearance. He is angular, flat boned with excellent spring of ribs and loose skin. We are excited about Keiki joining our herd, he has proven to be everything and more than we expected. In the first 5 shows this show season, he has already won his 3 Grand Champion legs that will give him his Master Championship along with two Reserve Champion wins. He went on to win Grand Champion one more time in the second show at the AGS National events.
Keiki has sired a good number of kids here this spring,(2003), and has not disappointed us. He has been consistent in producing long, level kids with very good width throughout and tons of dairy character having loose skin, long necks and being angular, sharp and flat boned.

HES: 88.85 "Very Good" (88 90 89) 7/3/03
Show Record : 2 X Grand Champion,
2 X Reserve Grand Champion
3 X 1st place, 3 X 2nd
 

Rocket Man is an awesome buck who stole our hearts away the minute he was born. He is one of triplets and our very first try at Artificial Insemination. We are very pleased With the kids that were produced from this breeding. Rocket Man attended his very first show in June of 2002 winning 1st and 2nd place in his class both days and then went on to win Grand Champion Buck in the first show and Reserve Champion in the Second. Not bad for a youngster that was only 4 months old! This year's show season Rocket captured another Grand Champion and Reserve Champion win to his credit. His Dam won the 2002 Michigan title of All time Breed Leader in milk production and went on to make the AGS Top Ten list in the milk production awards. This was her first time on milk test and she earned her star with flying colors! We hope to have a better picture of Rocket Man up soon. star

AGS Classified at 89.9 VG
HES: 88.9 "Very Good" (90 90 88) 6/23/02
Height: 21 3/4"
7 x Grand Champion,
5 x Reserve Grand Champion  

Thunder had finished his Championship in AGS and in NDGA as well. Blue Thunder was the first Double Master Champion. He produced many offspring who are following in his hoof steps. He is small, with a beautiful head, excellent feet and legs, nice barrel, and his dam has an exceptionally nice, easy to milk, totally collapsible udder! Although Thunder's rump was not ideal, he produced many kids with his dam's long, flat rump. It is with great sadness that we had to say good-bye to Blue Thunder. A terminal illness took it's toll in April of 2003. We were fortunate enough to have been able to get Thunder's semen collected in the fall of 2002 so he will still be producing offspring for us in the future. We will truly miss our beloved Thunder but he will live on in our herd through his kids for years to come.

We are very excited about breeding some of our does to Tom and we can hardly wait to see those kids hit the ground.

Show Record: 1xGCH 2x RGCH 

Raising Arizona was the winner of the 1997 AGS National Specialty Get of Sire award. He is known for producing kids with exceptional toplines, and excellent leg set. He is the sire to the 1997 AGS National Specialty Grand Champion Junior Doe, Gay-Mor's RA Kitty. He has many offspring with Grand Champion wins. His dam, Goodwood Penny Lane was evaluated HES "Excellent" (88 92 90 90)
Arizona is gone now but not forgotten, his legacy will live on here at Kaapio Acres. We have purchased many of the available straws of Arizona Semen and hope to do some A.I. in the near future. We are so excited with the prospect of having Arizona kids born here.

HES: 90.3 "Excellent" (91 90 90) 6/23/02
Show Record:1 x Reserve Grand Champion, 3 x 1st

B'Udder Boy excels in general appearance and dairy character, he has sired some awesome kids here at our farm, Red Butt'ler being one of his sons.
We have collected B'Udder Boy's semen so we have sold him to make room for some of his offspring that we wanted to keep. We expect to see more awesome offspring produced out of B'Udder Boy in the future