• Stage Dragon is a small herd of Nigeran Dwarf dairy goats tucked in a small rural development in Colbert, WA.

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• As a kid I started with Nubians, and I also handled my mom's French Alpines for her. I showed in 4-H as well as ADGA. My brothers had LaManchas and French Alpines. Our family herd name was All Mischief.

• It all started in 1988 when we brought home my brother's first registered French Alpine form Lyn Kotovic (Thistledew.) I had Nubians from Alison Gamage (Trillium Trails.) as well as a grade Nubian project from my first goat (a scrawny little Nubian/Oberhasli cross doeling.)

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• After about 10 years, I went to college, sold off my herd and took an 11-year break. Fast forward to 2008: Married with four small children. We lived on 1/2 an acre in Mead, Washington that we discovered was rurally zoned.

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• I saw my first Nigerian dwarf goats at the Puyallup State fair in 1991 and I fell in love, I never dreamed that 16 years later they would be accepted by ADGA already!

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• I found Lil Critters Farm in North Idaho and reserved two doelings with some nice Twin Creeks and Rosasharn goats in their background.  

• We brought them home in May of 2008 and the rest is history! Dawn and Amber are my foundation does, and they contributed so much to what my herd is today.

• Adding a gorgeous foundation buck from Cyndi Smith of Ballardcreek was the best decision I could have made. Monte didn't have the blue eyes or moonspots like many other breeders were touting of the bucks I was considering, but boy did he have type!

• Monte was just a plain black and tan buckskin, but he was sired by *S Pecan Hollow BAW Champagne. Pecan Hollow was dispersing their nigerians and those lines were getting harder to find.

• We lost (+B SG Ballardcreek Spumonte) Monte to a tragic accident at just 4 years old, but the three daughters I got from him are all Superior Genetics with appraisal scores of 90 or higher and most of the goats in my herd now go back to those three: SG Stage Dragon SD Zowie 2*M 91 EEEV (2 GCH Legs),  SG Stage Dragon SA Zenon 2*M 90 VEEE (2 GCH Legs), and SG Stage Dragon SD Zillow 2*M 90 EEEV. The First three does born in my herd, I kept all three and so glad I did!

• They are all gone over the rainbow bridge now, but I have a son out of Zillow, and many of the does I have now are out of or go back to Zowie and Zenon.

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• When I started out the Nigerian Dwarf did not have the 60+ entries in shows that they do now. We had to show in AOP along with Saanens and Sables. Zowie went RGCH in AOP against Saanens and Sables as a dry yearling. That was an exciting win!

• I was the first to show nigerians in the ADGA show at Spokane Interstate Fair, and worked hard along with Carmel Springs (and Ballardcreek and Alison Spacek (Southland) helped us by adding a goat here or there as needed) until we had sanctions at the Clayton show (that one took some convincing that we could advertise and bring in the numbers - but we had people show up from ALL over the PNW!) and Spokane Interstate Fair.

• I continue to support these local shows today. I will have been raising and showing the Nigerian Dwarf breed for 16 years in Spring of 2024! Now I am divorced, and my youngest is 14, how times have changed.