Reference Sires
Ceasar,
who served several years as our
senior herdsire, is a 100% NZ son of Sunboy
Stanton 149 (alias Nick) and out of a daughter of Compton Downs
Charlemagne. He has sired several outstanding kids in limited use.
His mother is now 11 years old, has an udder like a two year old, and is doing a great job of raising twins.
If you want to raise daughter worth keeping for production, maternal instincts,
milk production, udder conformation, and longevity in the herd, look at Caesar
daughters. He is currently owned by Tom and Vicki Keesau of Sapulpa,
Oklahoma.
Sunboy Stanton 149, also known as Nick,
probably left more of a legacy on the AKGA than any other goat. He was a
son of the great Moneymaker and the doe Seventrees Sandelwood. This cross
produced a number of the top bucks of the breed. He was owned for years by
Bill and Brenda Moore of Georgia, and near the end of his life by Sky and Debora
Shivers of Oklahoma. He died in February of 2007, but his blood lives on
in our herd, both in his son Ceasar, our senior herdsire, and in the sons and
daughters of his last crop offered on our for sale pages. His popularity
was documented at the 2007 AKGA Showcase Sale where both the high selling
purebred buck, and the high selling purebred doe were sired by him. Both
of these outstanding young goats were offered at the sale by Goat Hill Kikos.
Flash!! Sunboy Stanton 149 (Nick) is the sire of the high selling goat in the 2008 AKGA Showcase Sale.
Sunboy
117, better known as Loverboy was
probably the only Moneymaker son to challenge the popularity and impact of Nick.
The best does in our herd are daughters of Loverboy. They consistently
have big, meaty kids who are even better than their parents. Loverboy's
mother was Seventrees Sandalwood, who was also Nick's grandmother.
We find that on tall framed does, Loverboy puts the meat and thickness on them
to go with the frame.
Sunboy 117 (Lover Boy) was the sire of the 1st
and 2nd highest selling goats at the 2009 Showcase Sale.
Tasman Zorro
I have been told that in the interest of
uniformity, all the goats chosen for the main importation of Kikos to the US
were white. The story goes that this lasted only until they were in the
quarantine yard awaiting entry, when one of the does laid down and had a
black kid, Tasman Zorro. I don't personally know if this story is true or
not but it matters little, because the impact that this great sire has had on
the breed is truly impressive. He is responsible for most of the
color and much of the size found in today's Kikos. He was sired by Goatex
The Phantom and his mother was Bardon Bardelli. His influence lives on
today through Iron Horse, Jack Flash, and several of the GHK does.
TAY Onyx
Perhaps the best known son of Zorro was Onyx.
He was the result of crossing the big, black, Zorro on the Caston Creek doe,
Miss Liberty, a daughter of Betula Hills Moneymaker. His sons and
daughters are characterized by extra large frames, lots of color, and plenty of
attitude. He is the sire of Iron Horse and several of the bigger, better
does now in our breeding herd.
Goatex 26/89
26/89 is one of the four young bucks selected by
Dr. An Peischel in 1989 during her initial visit to New Zealand to look at the
Kikos as a source of upgrading her doe herd. Through artificial
insemination, GHK Jack Flash is one of the first kids available by this
outstanding early sire to be used by breeders as a 100% NZ sire.
Jack Flash
GHK Jack Flash is a son of
Goetex 26/89, one of the original four bucks imported in 1990 by Dr, An Peischel.
Through the science of frozen semen this long dead foundation sire was bred to
Nikita, an outstanding daughter of Tasman Zorro, and the sale topper at the 2007
AKGA showcase sale. Since these bucks were never used outside of Dr. An's
breed up program, Jack Flash is the natural outcross for all of our 100% New
Zealand lines represented in Kiko pedigrees today. Jack is now owned
by Wayne Simms and Tim Martin of Beggs Oklahoma.