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Tonic is Swiss marked with a minimal white and slight roaning on his hind legs. His light tan legs have darkened to a lovely reddish brown. He has fantastic milking & show lines. Tonic's paternal brother, LARKSTONE SP GRAND DESIGN, has made the Elite Sire List! Tonic comes from a strong performing Paternal Line. Sire, SS, SSS & SDS all have earned their +B or +S. This is one of the reasons we purchased Tonic along with his dam's 2 CH Legs & LA results at 3 years old. Tonic is so calm and sweet. He is the first to greet visitors at the gate. He follows me like a puppy dog when I'm in the buck enclosure, looking for scratches.

We had been using Tonic sparingly as he is over the height limit, but it seems his girls are all under the height requirement. When bred to does not in upper height limits, chances are good his boys will not go over the height limit. Tonic's 1st Daughter, Mags, was a FF in 2022. Her udder is fabulous, and she has amazing confirmation! Tonic missed out on 2021 LA's due to a tattoo mishap. We did not have time to get his registration certificate updated to show the mistake. 2023 LA's didn't work or for Tonic again! One of his tattoos was not completely legible. He was appraised but was not given a final score. We were planning on selling Toinc but based on his Linear Trait & Structural Scores we will be keeping him. He scored within the Ideal Range on 5 of the 7 Linear Categories he was appraised on & received 3 E's in Structural Categories! Based on his scores I would venture to say he might have scored in the high 80's for a FS. Tonic did get coded for weak pasterns. Working with our vet, Tonic is getting BoSe injections. His pasterns have improved dramatically & it has done wonders for his libido. Looks like we will have to wait till 2025 to get him to LA's for a final time. Maybe our third try will pay off. Tonic has been collected and is in our tank. Tonic is also available from Blue Mountain Genetics.

Tonic also carries two copies of the A Variant for Alpha-s1 Casein. Some feel that the A Variant is associated with the highest fat content in milk. I guess this will be confirmed as more testing is done on goats. We have noticed this to be true with some of our does who are A/A. This means he will always pass one on to his offspring. Tonic does have a negative ETA index, he just acquired in 2021. Keep in mind the measure of a buck is how is kids do. None of Tonic's kids been Shown or gone on DHIR Test. He had just two daughters appraise in 2023. We are liking Tonic so much that we have just retained our first BREWFM buck, his son RUMPELSTILTSKIN. To learn more about PTI/ETA Indexes in our herd click on the link.