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Amberwood, the home of high milk production and championship stock, enters it's 31st year in the Dairy Goat Industry. Our bucks have been the foundation and/or the upgrading of many herds throughout the country. We have also been very fortunate in breeding many grand champions for other herds as well as our own. We have Nubian stock, LaMancha stock, Nubian semen, LaMancha semen, and buck services available. We will not sell any animals (especially bucks) that we would not retain in our own herd. Extended pedigrees and more information are available upon request.
Our Nubians are line bred on the great GCH ++*B Hallcienda Frosty Marvin (sire of ++*B Amberwood's Frosty Chancellor who has sired the three times (3 Xs) National Champion, Reserve National Champion, California State Champion, and California Reserve State Champions). We are returning to the source of our prior successes by again line breeding on GCH ++*B Hallcienda Frosty Marvin. We are confident we can continue to successfully line breed on this great buck through his sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters.
Our LaManchas will be continuing to use the National Champion lines of One Oak Hill & Kastdemurs as well incorporating the beautiful and consistent lines of Celtic Knot & Bregas. We are proud to announce that our doe, CH Amberwood Golden Gingersnap, (owned by Amos Rocha) has finished her Championship this year. In fact, we wish to thank Mr. Rocha for allowing us to purchase her buck kid, April Meadows Titan's Crusader.
2007 finds Amberwood in our new home in Missouri. Due to the challenges of the move we were unable to show. However, we are looking forward to getting back into the show ring in 2008. We also hope to participate in DHIR this coming spring.
2003 through 2006 have been years of "ups and downs" due to personal, medical, and financial challenges. These challenges have forced us to sell some of our very fine older stock and prohibited us from attending any shows at all. 2006 has been a year of vast changes, the biggest being our move to Missouri. Unfortunately, during our move, we lost our Sr. Herd Sire, Amberwood Chancellor's Vision. However, we are looking forward to our new home in beautiful Missouri.
In spite of the difficulties these past few years, we are looking forward to 2007 because of our good fortune in obtaining new additions to our herd through trade, reciprocal agreements, etc, as well as continuing a tightly line bred breeding program. We will continue to try and recapture some of our older Amberwood lines. Additionally, we hope to be able to participate in the linear appraisal program.
We wish to congratulate our good friends, Josiah & Jodi Klinedinst, of the J2K Capraio herd, for their display of many fine animals and show wins at their first National Show in 2006.
 2002 show season highlights:
- Nubians:
- Amberwood Thor's Sheleen placed 1st, 2nd & Res. Jr. CH.
- Amberwood Thor's Glory also placed 1st & 2nd (behind Sheleen).
- Our biggest surprise was that of our yearling buck, Rose Valley Horus, who won GCH and Res. GCH at his very first show.
- At the Mariposa County Fair (Open Show), S-Reedy Showstopper's Sunshine won 1st & Jr. Champion.
- At the Mariposa County Fair (Open Show), Rose Valley Private Scandals placed 1st.
- LaManchas:
2001 show season highlights:
- Nubians:
- Shannon's Doll Sundays Best was Res. Grand Champion in both rings behind a permanent Champion and earned her permanent Champion status.
- Rose Valley Nebula was shown in the Jr. kid class and placed 1st in both rings.
- LaManchas:
2000 show season highlights:
- Nubians:
- LaManchas:
- Our intermediate buck kid, Amberwood's Celebrity Knight , was Jr. Champion and Res. Senior Grand Champion.
- His litter sister, Amberwood's Celebrity Isis, was Jr. Champion as well.
- Amberwood's Celebrity Starr was also Jr. Champion and Best Doe In Show (second show).
- Amberwood's Celebrity Prelude was 1st in her class as well, at the Mariposa County Fair (Open Show).
1999 show season highlights:
- We did extremely well at the Mariposa County Fair (Open Show). All our kids were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in their respective classes.
- Nubians:
- Amberwood's Debonae, while she was the youngest in the classes, won Jr. Champion.
- Sharade, our 2 year old milker, won Grand Champion.
- LaManchas:
We have enjoyed many successes and would like to thank Alice Hall of Hallcienda for breeding the great GCH ++*B Hallcienda Frosty Marvin (our foundation sire). Most of all, we would like to thank Barbara Thrasher of Pepperwood Farm for her tremendous insight in purchasing Marvin as a youngster and giving us our start through breedings, purchases, and mentoring.
Amberwood highly recommends the following, very informative, articles:
- Please see the tribute, “In Memoriam”, that appeared in The Dairy Goat Journal, (Vol. 60 No. 12), March, 1983 publication.
- A tribute to GCH ++*B Hallcienda Frosty Marvin. Written for The Dairy Goat Journal, (Vol. 61 No. 3) appearing in their March, 1983 publication.
- Frosty Marvin, “Do The Facts Support The Legend?” Written for The Dairy Goat Journal, (Vol. 64 No. 8) appearing in their August, 1986 publication.
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