Z is an elegant, substantial buck. As he was led in for his 2023 LA, his appraiser started out with “I really, really like this buck. Look at how he leads forward with his chest, instead of his shoulders. I can see why you were smiling as he came out.” He comes from generations of highly productive animals on both sides of his pedigree: his sire is Elite and his dam is a daughter of the one and only Sugar Moon V Zuzanna – not only an Elite doe, but an elite doe who led our breed in production and butterfat for multiple years. Z also brings in some genetic potential that we’re keen to preserve through his dam’s sire, Cedar View Romeo. Romeo is a three-quarter sibling to Elite doe Cedar View Isabella, a doe who truly embodied the “whole package”: an Elite doe whose correctness in type earned her a final score of EEEE91, and who easily finished her championship, earning numerous BIS honors including multiple BIS at NAILE. As Isabella is a doe whose presence is strong in our herd, the decision to bring Z to our farm was an easy one. He represents our effort to bring the conformation and correctness of an animal like Isabella into a marriage with production influenced by the historic PromisedLand lines. Z has big work in front of him, and we have every confidence that he’s up to the job. The icing on the cake is Z’s loving, affectionate nature. He’s gentle with both his does and his humans, handles well, and is a pleasure to work with. The only things we wish were different about Z are the fact that he is likely to go over height – not a deal breaker for us – and we would like him to have greater rear leg angulation.