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Senior Doe |
Junior Doe |
Buck |
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GENERAL APPEARANCE |
35 |
56 |
56 |
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Style, upstandingness, length of bone, & femininity/masculinity (taller at withers than at hips, smoothly blended throughout with long bone pattern and an appearance of strength, balance, health, and vigor) |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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Front end assembly (arched shoulders with shoulder blade, point of shoulder, and point of elbow set tightly and smoothly against the chest wall, full in crops with moderate extension and development of brisket) |
4 |
8 |
7 |
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Head & breed character (head wide, of medium length, broad muzzled, with full nostrils, strong jawed, with alert eyes, clean-cut about the throat. Appropriate size, color, ears, nose, and other breed specifics) |
6 |
10 |
12 |
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Back: topline & rump (strong and straight with well defined vertebrae throughout, sloping gently downward from withers, level chine, loin straight & wide, rump strong, long, wide, nearly level, dropping slightly from hips to pins, wide & nearly flat between thurls, pin bones & hip bones wide apart and well defined. Hips nearly level with back. Tail head smoothly set slightly above pin bones) |
8 |
13 |
10 |
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Feet & legs; (front legs wide apart, clean kneed, straight, strong, set squarely underneath; rear legs with tendons well defined, well angulated in side profile through the stifle to cleanly molded hocks, nearly perpendicular from hock to pastern, pasterns of medium length, strong & resilient, feet short, strong, with tight toes pointed directly forward, heels as deep as toe) |
14 |
22 |
24 |
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fore legs |
4 |
6 |
6 |
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rear legs |
4 |
6 |
7 |
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fore feet & pasterns |
3 |
5 |
5 |
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rear feet & pasterns |
3 |
5 |
6 |
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DAIRY CHARACTER |
15 |
22 |
22 |
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Angularity (lean and free of excess fleshing, depth and width increasing from heart girth to rear barrel) |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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Neck (long, lean, clean cut, blending smoothly into all body junctions) |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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Skin & ribs (skin loose, thin pliable, with smooth slick hair coat; ribs long, flat, flinty, widely spaced, fore ribs well spring, lower ribs angled toward flank) |
3 |
4 |
4 |
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Thighs & flank (thighs, from side, moderately incurving from pin bone to stifle; from rear, clean and wide apart, highly arched and out-curving into the escutcheon to accommodate the udder and its attachment; flank well defined, deep, yet arched, free of excess tissue) |
3 |
5 |
5 |
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Withers (prominent, wedge-shaped, with the dorsal process arising slightly above the shoulder blades |
3 |
5 |
5 |
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BODY CAPACITY |
15 |
22 |
22 |
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Chest & heart girth (deep and wide, with well sprung fore ribs, full in crops and at point of elbow) |
7 |
10 |
10 |
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Barrel (strongly supported, long, deep, and wide, with well sprung ribs, increasing in depth and width toward rear with maturity) |
8 |
12 |
12 |
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MAMMARY SYSTEM |
35 |
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Fore udder (wide, full to the side, moderate forward extension, free of non-lactating tissue, blending smoothly into barrel) |
6 |
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Rear udder (capacious, high, widely arched into escutcheon; uniformly wide and deep to floor; moderately curved in side profile without protruding beyond the vulva, blending smoothly into escutcheon) |
7 |
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Teats (uniform in size, of medium length and diameter, proportionate to udder size, cylindrical in shape, ideally plumb when viewed from the side or rear, situated outward of center on the floor of each udder half, orifice size to facilitate ease of milking) |
4 |
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Support (strong medial suspensory ligament that clearly defines the udder halves, contributes to desirable shape and capacity, and holds the udder snugly against the body and well above the hocks. Lateral attachments strong, extending well down the inside of the thigh, contributing to a large area of attachment) |
12 |
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Quality: shape, balance, & texture (globular; of adequate capacity with due regard to stage of lactation; from the side, approx. one-third visible in front of the leg, one-third under the leg, and one-third behind the leg; texture soft, pliable, and elastic, well collapsed after milking, free of scar tissue, with halves symmetrical) |
6 |
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TOTALS |
100 |
100 |
100 |