Comes in a clear 3-ring sheet protector... Keep one in the front of your pedigree and registration binder.

One side has perpetual calendar for quick reference on breeding/kidding dates year after year and the other side is a quick reference Dairy Goat Weight Chart, a Conversion Chart for common measurements and Normal Values for Temperature, Pulse, Respiratory Rates and Normal Rumen Contraction rates for Dairy Goats.

Available from ISBA website for only $2.50 each postage paid. Make great tool to figure kidding dates, great gifts, club fund raisers, club raffles, etc! Go to:

and click on Breeding Charts on left top under Fund Raisers. You can order right on line or send your order to

We need updated pictures of your Sables, or for those we don't have pictures of, please send some along with background information. We will add to our online Sable Album which can be accessed from the ISBA Web page. The more pictures the merrier! Also candid shots would be more than appreciated for 2004 breeding calendar! Contact Anita blkfoot@hcil.net

Please enter any information for Sables that you have not added to our Sable Database. You may also access this from your ISBA web site, or email, snail mail to Donna Palmer. This is very important to our Sable Programs.

Effective November 1, 2003 ,when registering your Sables, please send your information to

Include copy, not origionals, of any AGS or ADGA registration papers on animal and parents. Please give as much data as you can. Donna is working on getting our current Registry program working right, or creating our own program for registering our Sables. The previous software we purchased from Starshine who makes Animal Trac, has not performed correctly for Gwen and she has had to enter information manually. So Donna is going to shape the Registration Program up. Thanks Donna!

Member Rates:

Spot Ads 7.50 per yr.

Business Card 2.00 Per Qtr/9.00 per yr.

1/4 Page 4.00 Per Qtr/ 13.50 per yr.

1/2 Page 7.00 Per Qtr/ 25.00 per yr.

Full Page 10.00 Per Qtr/ $35.00 per yr.

Non Member Rates

Spot Ads 10.00 per yr.

Business Card 3.50 Per Qtr/ 11.00 per yr.

1/4 Page 6.00 Per Qtr/ 18.50 per yr.

1/2 Page 9.00 Per Qtr/ 25.00 per yr.

Full Page 13.50 Per Qtr/ 50.00 per yr.

Breeder Listings

ISBA Members $15.00 Per Year

Non ISBA Members $30.00 Per Year

Several folks have indicated that they would like to attend a Sable Meeting at the Convention next year. We would like to do a fund raiser that will help us put on the meeting, and invite directors in for snacks and to talk to, show our appreciation. We can also work on riding together to save on gas, rooming together, etc to help save money for each other. We would like to meet everyone and celebrate our Herdbook acceptance.

We also are accepting anything you would like to donate or make for our online auction and fund raiser. Things are going to start perking for us, and we need to make sure we have extra money for expenses. If you would just like to donate some $$$ , please send to ISBA at Gwen's address above. Thank you so very much!

Anyone who would like to volunteer for committees, help with newsletter, etc, please contact Donna, Gwen or Anita. Thanks!

 The price was 2 pages of the calendar with your business card for $25. By popular request, I am also doing a Nubian only calendar through our company with the same format but with just Nubian pictures. Also offering the same advertising of 2 pages with business card for $25 on that one.

I need to get these finished up since it's already November! So please let me know yea or nay!

Thanks,

Donna Palmer

Zerine and family live on Fir Is. and own a 21 acre farm of which 15 acres is in raspberries. We have Saanens, LaManchas and Nubians besides the (2) Sables born this year to Rocky-Run Rogue's EZL Juneau...purebred purchased from Pat Hendrickson and Wil-O-Acres Kendra's Promise an American doe from Wendy Glunt.

In the mix are 3 dogs and 2 cats along with 2 kittens I am raising for the Humane Society...they were left on their porch that same a.m. so I offered to bottle feed until old enough to take back for shots and neutering so I have good luck doing that sort of thing. Also on the pasture are 3 beef two of which will soon be butchered and Libby the llama who guards the goats.

I originally joined ADGA in 1973 or 4 with a little grade Togg doe named Crissy who took a particular shine to the youngest of our 6 children named Nathan. She kept talking to him trying to coax crawling Nate that he should be her baby.

We came from SE Alaska originally where we were commercial fishermen as trollers...I was raised that way with my folks and siblings and spent every summer starting in April on our folks' boat then married in 1964 and spent that same space of time together with my husband, Elmer on our troller adding 6 kids one at a time for the next 7 years. We have 4 boys and 2 girls and 13 grandchildren...

We are looking forward to retirement now...or Elmer is anyway. I stay on the farm with my critters and our son Nathan who at 18 broke his neck at the C-3,4 level and is paralyzed from there down. He does well in his business as a counselor at Skagit Recovery and holds a BA in Social Work.

Makes an awesome visual in that power chair which he operates with a mouth joy stick and everything else with a mouth wand...nothing comes easy but he never sits on a pity pot and we are ever so proud of him. He is an inspiration to us all.

We grow a spectacular garden and I process much of it for winter food..a very enjoyable hobby of mine! Our growing season was spectacular this year so the garden outdid itself. I had to water it frequently which isn't normally a neccesity in this area!

Sincerely, Zerine

Welcome Zerine and Family! Your son sounds like a very special person and we know you are proud of him!!

Greetings from Joyful Noise Home-n-stead! "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!"

I am married (for 22 + years), have four great kids (7-18 yo)--2boys, 2 girls. I am a Texas farm girl, married a guy from the city (will avoid the term "city-slicker" ! hehehehe)....and lived in town until 2 1/2 years ago. I was very patient!

Hubby needed to change companies and the Lord, so wonderfully, put us in Indiana! (It is alot like the area of TX where I grew up--only much cooler!)

As soon as we were on LAND (YES!!) I started looking for critters. Goats were on the top of my list because 1-one of my kiddos is sensitive to cow's milk, 2-I grew up on a dairy farm, 3-I've always wanted a kid goat, 4-I wanted to provide for our family 'from the land'--milk, cheese, etc. 5-there is no greater learning environment for children for LIFE than a farm and one must have animals!

Our animals are here, for the most part, for a purpose--to protect or to produce.(If the chicken don't lay, she don't stay!!). We have ducks and chickens (eggs & meat), pigs (meat), rabbits (meat), and geese (alarm system). As well as a couple of dogs and cats (varmit control).

We do have a few critters that have attained life-status (ie 'pet'), but I am pretty tough on whether something is earning its keep or not. (I guess that's a pretty subjective statement! :-)

So....my hubby knew I wanted to get some goats and other animals, but everytime I came home something new it would put him into shock all over again.... culture shock.

Goat history.....

2001 Spring -I actually bought the first goat at the sale barn...."there's a goat. She's got an udder. She's lactating. I'll buy her." 'Matilda' is an older (unknown age) Saanan. She might have been registered...she's tatooed (pretty hard to read). She's small. She is not a great producer and she has a pendulous udder but has been a fabulous learning experience. Hubby built a milking stand by the end of the first week. We had a goat rodeo for pretty much the whole summer to get about a pound of milk at a milking. She is now the sweetest gal.

A few weeks later, I bought a dry yearling Alpine and bred her that fall to a reg Ober.

She freshened spring of last year (2002) and turned out to have RANK milk. It was beyond bitter. Smelled OK, tasted terrible. We went through antibiotics, had her milk tested at a dairy lab and finally culled her. We kept her doeling, on 'probation', but when the doeling freshined this year....bad milk. Not as bad as her dam, but definitely off. She and all offspring were culled. That left me with just Matilda who had birthed two pretty little kids (sired by Ober)...they had a facinating aray of brown, tan, and black spots on a white background. ....Unfortunately, the doeling also had double teats that were fused. (Hold up your first and second fingers, keeping them together). I culled her.

So I called up a Saanan breeder I had met during the 'bad milk fiasco' to see if she had any doeling for sale.... One of her girls had just had black babies...and, because they didn't meet breed standard, they were to go for meat. She kindly let me purchase them. (doe--'Jazzia', buck--'Juba') They are my first registered goats (AS).

Shortly after that, the breeder called again because she had a friend that wanted to sell a dry 2 yr old grade Saanan....I got her also ('Mariah') and have been milking her all summer (maiden milker)...getting about 2 1/2 #/day. She is tall! About 4-6 inches taller than Matilda.

So....Matilda is bred to my sable buck to birth early so we will have one going when the younger does go through their first freshenings...I plan on building up to AS with Mariah, and Jaz is to go to a Sable buck. Hopefully, we will have enough milk next year to keep us in milk and make cheese!

I have decided that I much prefer goats to our dogs...and other animals. The goats are not only affectionate, but provide us with welcome milk, and, sometimes, meat.( And they don't dig holes and bark (like the dogs), shed on the furniture and scratch up the door jams (cats). )

We will probably get into showing before too long...I need to learn the ins and outs of that aspect of goats.

We have also set ourselves up as a traveling small farm animal petting zoo and have been hired by libraries, churches (summer Bible school), homeschool groups, etc.

Welcome Becky and Family.... We look forward to hearing about your showing expeditions! It sounds as though you have a wonderful family... and very self-sufficent too!! Perhaps you can give us all some tips on homesteading lifestyle.