Quiet and laid back, it would be easy to miss Dude. He’s a very small-statured buck, and one that we feel has some particular characteristics we’d like to build in our herd. Specifically, Dude’s topline is very nice, and his pasterns are strong and upright – both things we seek to improve in the offspring of our does. Dude’s sire and dam are both members of the most productive lines in the Sinai Thunder herd. Although the lack of performance data on either of his parents was unfortunate – life happens – but each of his four grandparents have amassed strong bodies of data, as have multiple full siblings and littermates of his sire and dam. We are hopeful that Dude will play a role ensuring some genetic diversity in our more production-focused lines, while at the same time not straying too far from some specific bloodlines we’ve chosen to explore. 

Dude has sired two bucklings on our farm, both of which we truly wish we could justify keeping!

His personality is as sweet as the day is long and we’re quite pleased to have him here. Dude still has a lot of maturing to do, and we are very interested in seeing how he changes.