They're BLACK and We're PROUD (all of our black goats are fullblood)
The black paint is NDR Roberta. She was born November 2001. She started it all the second time around. On her left is NDR Midnight, her 2003 daughter out of DLTR Cayenne. On her right are her 2004 daughter, NDR Black Pearl and her 2005 grand-daughter, NDR Black Queen. As you can see this bloodline is thick and wide and the foundation of our black herd
We started in the black boer goats in 1999. Our black buck was from Little League Ranch and named Jet Black Spade. He sired a couple of solid blacks and traditional colored black heads but he just didn't put the bone or mass into his offspring when we crossed him onto some of our red and black headed does.
In early 2000, we decided to focus on the reds and we sent our blacks to a man in Tyler, Texas. He was trying to improve the body mass and breed character but it didn't work out for him either so we left the blacks behind and concentrated on the fullblood red goats.
Our black herd began for the second time around with a red paint doe imported from Canada bred to a red paint son of Eggstreme. We never expected to get a black out of that cross but out popped NDR Roberta, the beginning of our black herd. She is 7/8 SA.
When she was 18 months old , we bred her to another solid red buck, DLTR Cayenne, a young buck we had purchased out of Texas. We hoped for a chocolate or mahogany doe and were very pleased when she had a solid black doe, finally a black with good bone and breed character, NDR Midnight. She is 7/8 SA and has several well-known sires and dams in her pedigree such as Tabu, Dot, Shaka Zulu, Kaptien, Sasquatch and Ubora. We have been told by several approved judges that she is the nicest black fullblood they have seen.
The following year, we bred Roberta to DLTR Tabasco, a solid red buck that had much of the same breeding as Cayenne. We, of course, were hoping for another black doe but Roberta had other ideas. Instead she gave us a beautiful dark mahogany red paint doe that was jumpy from the day she was born so we named her NDR Jitterbug.
Jitterbug was bred to Osirus and kidded in December 2006
In 2005, we bred Roberta to SCS Aslan, a black buck we purchased from Coy Stovall in Texas. She produced a black doe kid and a black headed buck. Sadly, we lost Aslan very soon after this breeding. NDR Black Pearl is shown here at 18 months old. She was exposed to NDR Night Rider and kidded two solid black does on 22 January 2007.
In the fall of 2004, we flushed NDR Midnight to SCS Osirus, our best solid red herdsire. We had four kids born in 2005 from this flush, two solid black does, one solid red doe and one solid black buck. We bred Midnight naturally after the flush to another of our black bucks, Choc-A-Toby. She had two very nice solid black bucks from this breeding.
These are two of the bucks out of our 2004 flush sired by Osirus. The buck on the right is NDR Night Ryder, a son of NDR Midnight. We used him in two different flushes in 2006. We have breed him naturally to several of our best red does. Keep watching our website for the progeny of these crosses. These two bucks showed in Jacksonville, Tx in August 2005. NDR Night Ryder placed 1st in the class and the red buck placed third out of a class of 10. The judge made the comment that the black buck was the best black that he had ever seen.
This is NDR Night Rider at 18 months old. He is an awesome black buck that is 15/16th South African. He is a solid black buck out of SCS Osirus and NDR Midnight. he has everything that most of the blacks are missing, meat, bone and breed character.At 18 months, he already is as large as some of our mature bucks, this is going to be one big boy! He has a short hair coat unlike many of the blacks that are out there. His pedigree goes back to Kaptein, Frances, and JR on his sires side and Eggstreme, Sasquatch, Kaptein, Tabu and Dot, the 1997 ABGA National Grand Champion Buck and Doe. We believe that the blacks are ready to get in the show ring and hold their own against the traditionals.
Our Newest Addition to the Black Program is "Night and Day" - a yearling black paint buck that we purchased at the Color Connection sale in San Angelo TX. We heard about this buck in November, 2005 from a friend who is active on the show circuit and knew that he would be offered in the sale. We waited anxiously for the catalog to be published. His sire is the sire of the 2006 ABGA National Champion Buck and he also traces back to our own Chocolate Romeo, a buck we owned and used extensively in our program until we lost him to pneumonia. We thought long and hard for several days and decided that he was just too awesome to leave behind. He is probably one of the best blacks we have seen and felt that his mass, bone and breed character would enhance our black program.
This is Davis's Black Girl. We had to go to Kentucky to pick her up. She's not the prettiest doe you'll ever see but she has the depth of body, bone, mass and volume that is lacking in most of the blacks and she does not trace back to the Hershey's Chocolate bloodlines. She was bred to Aslan last year and had two gorgeous solid black kids. This year we flushed her to a solid black buck, Choc-A-Toby and got 15 offspring on the ground. The pairing produced 12 solid blacks, 1 solid red, and 2 black and red kids. 3 bucks and 12 does. The two does pictured below are products of the flush. We are thrilled to have added two does of this caliber to our breeding program.
These are two of the does out of the flush with Choc A Toby and Davis's Black Girl. They will stay
in our keeper pen and we will flush one of them this year.
Here are four of the Never Done black does from spring 2005.
This is Jazz, a War Paint daughter. She was bred by a solid black buck, Choc-A-Toby and much to our surprise gave us quads.
A solid black doe, a black and white paint doe, a solid black buck, and a black headed buck.
WOW! Black Warpaint Grandkids
These are a few of our black flush kids in February 2006 And here they are now - August 2006
Because we know that there are many questions about the blacks and how authentic they are, we have decided to DNA test every quality black buck or doe that is sold by Never Done Ranch. We started to do this testing in 2005 at UC-Davis and have confirmed results on our foundation does all the way back to NDR Roberta, Osirus and several of the flush kids.
We will be continuing to test other sires and dams that are being used in our black and red programs as time goes on. By the end of 2008 we hope to have every one of our brood does and sires DNA certified, so that in 2007 every animal that leaves our place will do so with registration papers verifying parentage.