MDGA Virtual Mini Dairy Goat Show 
Summer 2014

1st place
Entry #3

2nd place
Entry #1

3rd place
Entry #2

Placings 3, 1, 2

I am placing three over one in mammary system. The height and width of the rear udder and fore udder extension. She also appears more capacious. She will yield to the depth of chest floor to 1. 

One is placing over two for the advantage she has in dairy character, she is sharper, more angular and open throughout. In mammary system she has a more capacious mammary system with more height and width to the rear udder

Three should be commended for body capacity. She is deeper and wider and more powerful throughout.

Placing 1-3-2

An interesting class of Mini Aged Nubian does.  There are a lot of tradeoffs in this class.

#1 is placing over #3 in general appearance.  She is stronger on her feet and legs and smoother in the front end at the junction of the point of elbow and chest floor.  I am going to give her the edge in mammary as well as I am going to discriminate against our #3 doe for having a twisted udder.  When I view #3 in side profile, you can see the one teat is slightly forward of the other (in theory the two teats on both sides of the udder should be aligned).  This is a hard call to make from a picture, but I feel the unbalance of mammary in #3 is a structural issue of the mammary system.

However, in my bottom pair, I am placing #3 over #2 as she has a lot more capacity to both the fore and rear udder and she excels in dairy strength showing a lot more will to milk with less excessive body fleshing.

#2 will be commended for her width and power throughout.