Zelda is a Celeste x Wiggy daughter - Wiggy was supposed to give more attachments to Celeste's pretty solid frame and decent udder. For even more udder atatachments tho, we looked around and our friend Ann-Marie bought a buck we wanted but couldn't bring ourselves to invest in - Piddlin Acres Maestro. Maestro gave fore-udder extension, gave more capacity and made some very solid does. We traded stud service with Ann-Marie and waited for heat.
She came into heat on December 6th.
Now, the afternoon of the 6th was dark - sun was setting around 5pm. Snow was melting on the ground on a milder than average December day - so there was moistness in the air that was just this side of San Fran in the winter. Damp and cold.
As Zelda set out, it should have been no more than a 30 minute drive to Ann-Marie's. The fog was so thick that headlights bounced back after only a few feet - highbeams were useless. Nobody was on the road - so our top speed was 15mph. 15.
A harrowing 75 minutes later, Ann-Marie and her brother were standing at the end of their driveway, waving flashlights like airport workers landing an airplane - without them, Zelda may still be driving around Grafton!
The kicker - 21 days later, Zelda acted like she was in heat again. Gil-galad mounted her, nuzzled her, followed her. All the classic symptoms pointed to a real heat. Which meant that the 3 good mountings from Maestro failed. Sigh. "Next year," we said. "We'll try again next year with Maestro."
Then Zelda suddenly came into labor- a couple of hours later, she had a new baby. A girl. A Maestro daughter - everything we hoped for too. An elegant, fine-boned, very feminine daughter - a definite improvement on Zelda.
Now we wait for her daughter's udder next year to see what Maestro brought.
