Green Gables SS MoonBeam

VMCH Green Gables SS Moonbeam ++*B

4th generation - American

Finished Virtual Champion

Sire: +B Echo Hill's Shining Star (4th gen)
ss: FMCH Rainbow Meadow's Charlie Brown
sd: Hidden Creek's Sierra Wind
Dam: Green Gables USG Trillium 2*P (3rd gen.)
ds: VMCH Echo Hill's Ulysses S. Grant +*B
dd: Country Dreams Rosebud *P

View extended pedigree here

DOB: 3/27/10

Percentage: 50/50 (Nubian/Nigerian)

Height: 29" (at 4 years old)

Sadly, we lost this gorgeous buck during the winter of 2015. He has been an amazing buck passing on goregous udders with excellent attachments and wonderful conformation and breed character. He will be greatly missed. Thankfully, we still have his dam, several daughters, a son and many grandkids, so his legacy will live on in our herd.

Moonbeam has beautiful conformation and good breed character. His dam has a wonderful udder with nice long teats and a super tightly attached udder. She also milks VERY well. MoonBeam also has a very nice personality and loves people. MoonBeam's kids are all VERY nice and we often see improvements over their dam. Moonbeam's daughters have freshened with BEAUTIFUL, socked on udders.. We have 2 of his daughters in our herd (Luna and Shadow). His dam continues to be an excellent milker and is small (24"). Moonbeam has proven to be one of our most consistent bucks.

6 of Moonbeam's kids have been tested for G6S and all came back Normal, his grandsire was also tested Normal and Moonbeam has 4 half siblings (from both sides) that were tested and are also Normal.

Moonbeam and his brother

Virtual Show Record

2014 - GRAND CHAMPION & 1st place aged buck - Ring 1 & 2 MDGA Summer V-Show

2012 - 2nd place 2 year old buck - Ring 1& 2 MDGA Fall V-Show

2011 - 4th place yearling buck - Ring 2 MDGA Fall V-Show

2011 - 2nd place yearling buck - Ring 1 MDGA Summer V-Show

2011 - 4th place yearling buck - Ring 2 MDGA Summer V-Show

2010 - GRAND CHAMPION MiniNubian Buck & 1st place Intermediate buckling - Ring 1 MDGA Summer V-Show

2010 - 4th place Intermediate buckling - Ring 2 MDGA Summer V-Show

2010 - 1st place buck under 6 mo. - DGI's virtual show (class of 9) (unofficial)

Trillium's udder

Click on the photos below to see pictures of Moonbeam's kids

Some of MoonBeam's relatives...

Star, Moonbeam's sire

MoonBeam's dam, Trillium:

Star's dam, Sierra Wind as a kid

Grant, Trillium's sire:

Grant's dam, Amber:

MoonBeam daughters

Full Sisters: Luna (2nd fresh), Annie (2nd fresh) & Annie (ff yearling)

Dorothy (Dolly daughter) 2nd freshening. Photo courtesy of Hurlburt Farm

Jolene Molly X Moonbeam, 2nd freshening. Photo courtesy of Hurlburt Farm

Shadow

MoonBeam first freshening daughters... Beauty, Lovina & Suzanna
(photos of Lovina & Suzanna courtesy of Daina)

Jolene and Journey - both ff daughters out of Moonbeam X Molly
(photos courtesy of Hurlburt Farm and Wynott Acres)

Green Gables Cali Luna 2nd fresh udder (dam Sapphire)

Pictures of MoonBeam...

As a newborn:

King of the Kid Pasture:

Mini Nubian 4th gen Buck

Moonbeam's beautiful face - I LOVE those eyes!

After his first clipping (note the partial belt that is hard to see when he is all furry):

Moonbeam's Summer 2010 V-Show pictures:

Moonbeam's yearling V-show pictures. It was HOT out and he did not want to cooperate...

Mini Nubian buck 4th gen

Two other pictures from the v-show photo shoot:

Mini Nubian buck 4th gen

His TERRIBLE Fall vshow pictures. I didn't have a helper, so he didn't do that well in the show. Still took 4th out of 7 in one class. But took 7th in the other class... Oh well, at least the above pictures show that he is nicer than these pictures show. :-)

2012 photo (2 yrs old):

Moonbeam as a mature buck in 2015.