Cashdown's Elite Cashmere Goats.

This is a record of some of the best animals which we have bred over the years. Some of these animals are no longer in our flock; we've moved on and the younger animals are more productive. It is interesting to see where we've come from and what is now considered outstanding as a comparison.

White 16 Kassadyn Elrod

(not many of our animals get classy names like this, most are referred to only by their ear tag number!)

Tag	DOB	Shorn	TFW	Yeild	Down	Micron
W16	9/93	7/94	624g	63.4%	389g	15.33um
		7/95	950g	38.5%	366g	17.44um
		7/96	1060g	24.2%	256g	16.8um
		7/97	1503g	35.4%	532g	17.6um
		7/98	1455g	34.5%	501g	17.2um

Kassadyn Elrod was an exceptional white buck in his time. He was a short stocky animal. His guard hair was longer than his down, so his physical appearance was that of a hairy white goat; very much like the cashmeres seen in China. When his guard hair was parted the long and very dense down beneath was revealed.

In 1997 W16 was used over 22 Cashdown does and in 1998 he was used over 85 does. Unfortunately he died not long after of Pulpy Kidney (we learnt the hard way that you have to vaccinate goats every 6 months with 6-in-1).

Awards

1994 Australain Cashmere Growers Association National Fleece Competition.: 1st in class; Greatest weight of cashmere under 16um.; Jim Brown Karakan Trophy-Goat with the highest fleece index.
1995 Australian Cashmere Growers Association National Fleece Competition.: 1st in class.
1997 Australian Cashmere Growers Association National Fleece Competition.: 1st in class.; The Gossamer Down Cashmere Trophy for the fleece with the highest commercial value in section B.; Greatest weight of cashmere under 18 micron.; The Sir Alan Smith Quaiche Trophy for the fleece with the highest commercial value section A and B.

Orange 35 Kassadyn Boromir

Tag	DOB	Shorn	TFW	Yeild	Down	Micron
035	9/94	7/95	530g	54.2%	287g	15.01um
		7/96	816g	48.4%	395g	17.5um
		7/97	1042g	46.1%	480g	17.5um
		7/98	1109g	49.2%	545g	18.2um
		7/99	1141g	37%	422g	17.6um
		7/00	1097g	36.6%	401g	18.1um

Kassadyn Boromir is a large, solid black buck (he was the biggest animal in the Cashdown herd at the time he was being used as a stud buck). Fortunately he has a placid disposition and is easy to handle. Orange 35's offspring bear a strong resemblence to him both in appearance (large and solid) and disposition. His kids have bulky high yielding fleeces.

Cashdown used O35 over

75 does in 1997
100 does in 1998
72 does in 1999
75 does in 2000
86 does in 2001

Kassadyn Red 265

Red 265 was a white buck and the progeny of White 16 and a white doe which we bought when the Sandawarra Cashmere Stud was dispersed, Sandawarra Yellow 388.

Tag	DOB	Shorn	TFW	Yeild	Down	Micron
R 265	9/98	7/99	537g	40.1	216g	15.81um
		1/00	567g	68.2%	386g	17.0um
		8/00	540g	57.9%	313g	17.1um

* Total amount of cashmere down produced in 2000 was 699 grams over two shearings.

Unfortunately R265 died in bad weather off shears early in 2001. We do have some progeny by him though, as we had joined him to a small number of does before he died.

Kassadyn Red 205

R 205 is a white buck out of W 16 and the doe O95. Orange 95 was a doe which we bred and a member of one of our best doe families.

Tag	DOB	Shorn	TFW	Yeild	Down	Micron
Red 205	9/98	7/99	352g	60%	211g	13.8um
		1/00	398g	56.5%	225g	15.8um
		7/00	485g	43.8%	211g	15.3um
		Total down produced in 2000, 436 grams.
		1/01	406g	44%	179g	15.4um
		7/01	486g	44%	414g	16.2um
		Total down produced in 2001, 393 grams.
		7/02	737g	50.5%	372g	16.1um
		7/03	603g	35.3%	212g	15.9um

R 205 was used over

49 does in 2000
72 does in 2001
101 does in 2002
100 does in 2003

R 205 was sold to Cashmere Breeders Cathy and Tom Rix for the 2004 breeding season, however he still exerts a strong influence upon the Cashdown herd through his progeny.

Kassadyn Red 236

R 236 is a black buck and is the progeny of two of our best coloured cashmere families. He grows a fine, dense, very high yielding cashmere fleece and exhibits exceptionally good cahmere coverage.

Tag	DOB	Shorn	TFW	Yeild	Down	Micron
R 236	9/98	7/99	384g	56.7%	218g	13.91um
		1/00	561g	63.5%	356g	15.6um
		7/00	437g	68.8%	301g	16.2um
		Total down produced in 2000, 657 grams
		1/01	544g	59.4%	323g	16.2um
		7/01	514g	46.75%	240g	16.45um
		Total down produced in 2001, 563 grams
		7/02	804g	78%	627g	18.1um
		7/03	733g	72.8%	533g	16.6um

R 236 was used over

119 does in 2001
123 does in 2002
95 does in 2003
124 does in 2004

*R 236 won the Belisa prize for the coloured fleece with the highest commercial value entered into the 2001 ACGA National Fleece Competition.

R 236 has sired a number of outstanding progeny, all of which exhibit his excellent coverage of fine, dense, high yielding cashmere.

Kassadyn Orange 100

A black doe, orange 100 is an outstanding doe born in 2001 . The fleece from O 100's second shearing was entered into the ACGA's National Fleece Competition.

Tag	DOB	Shorn	TFW	Yeild	Down	Micron
O 100	9/01	7/03	794g	79.3%	629g	15.00um

This brown fleece won the following prizes in the 2003 ACGA National Fleece Competition.

First in Class B9 : Doe 2&4 tooth
Special Award for the Greatest Weight of Cashmere Under 16um.
The Highest Valued Fleece from Victoria
The Belisa Cashmere Trophy for the Brown Fleece of Highest Commercial Value.
The Gossamer Down Cashmere Trophy for the highest fleece Value from Section B
The Sir Alan Smith Quaiche Trophy for the fleece with the Highest Commercial Value from Section A, B or C. Fleece Value $68.30 .
The Jim Browne Karakan Trophy for the Highest Patrick Indexed Fleece with an index of 351.6 (The highest index ever achieved in the history of the competition; the next highest index ever being Rowan Park 777 with an index of 258.3).