Olentangy Alpines

Olentangy Alpines Indian braves would use the riverbank, red silica clay as their war paint. Thank you for your interest in my herd of American Alpines.

OLENTANGY is an Algonquin Indian name meaning 'River of Red Face Paint' and a river valley that flows through central Ohio & The Ohio State University main campus, my Alma Mater. I have been selectively breeding Olentangy dairy goats for the past twenty years, and prior to that under the prefix, M&M ACRES. My mother purchased my first ADGA registered goat in 1982 and every doe in the herd descends

from that first 4-H kid. My first herd name, M&M Acres translated as “Mom & Me” or “Margaret & Mark”...those were fun days. The herd name changed in 1992 when I obtained my ADGA judges license to the current prefix. OLENTANGY is an Algonquin Indian name meaning 'River of Red Face Paint'. The Olentangy river flows through central Ohio and The Ohio State University, where I am a proud alumnus. My current herd consists of 25 American Alpines and 2 Purebred LaManchas. The herd relocated 2,400 miles from Northwest Ohio to Western Washington in April 2001 where our new home has the beautiful backdrop of Mt. Rainier, the iconic image of the state.

OLENTANGY CHIMAY TELLURIA AI~2x BIS, 2x GCH; 2x 1st Senior Yearling @ Josephine County FairSire: ++*B Olentangy OAA Chim...
08/11/2026

OLENTANGY CHIMAY TELLURIA AI
~2x BIS, 2x GCH; 2x 1st Senior Yearling @ Josephine County Fair

Sire: ++*B Olentangy OAA Chimay
Dam: GCH Olentangy Master Tellurion 10*M EX91

Pictorial evidence of my “white ribbon” showmanship, RIA’s ears say it all! 🤦🏻‍♂️ she really is a nice doe that I would have shown earlier in the year but a leg injury had sidelined her since April. RIA will either be a recipient for a friend’s ET/IVF program if that happens, or she will be bred to *B Tempo Aquila Standing Prestige for later kids if she doesn’t settle.

Looking through photos from today’s Josephine County/Rogue Valley DGA show in Grants Pass, Oregon, I’d have to give myse...
08/10/2026

Looking through photos from today’s Josephine County/Rogue Valley DGA show in Grants Pass, Oregon, I’d have to give myself a “white ribbon” for my showmanship in how I setup the does for photos….not really any are usable so I used this one that Amanda Hanson was so nice to take & used a watercolor filter. I think this looks like the best option to visually preserve the days events!

I wasn’t planning on making this long, 390 mile drive but something my appraiser said after my session last month made me rethink the decision. After all the scoring, we were discussing dairy goat Facebook Nation & the current narrative(s) being pontificated since the National Show.

My takeaway from that conversation is this; You can either give up & go away & see whose able to pickup the missing institutional pieces…or you can keep on, keeping on…and over time the facts speak for themselves…with-or-without any acknowledgment. The facts of today were 3x BIS, 4x GCH for a guy on the long-way-home in a truck with 4 goats in 98* heat. 🤷🏻‍♂️

America’s greatest dairy goat exhibition entries are closing soon, will you be Doing the Puyallup! with the most generous dairy goat community next month? Get your entries in to celebrate the end of PNW show season 2026!

OLENTANGY SYNERGY TELLERYN~1x BIS, 1x GCH; 3x 1st Junior Kid @ RVDGASire: ++*B SG Redwood Hills Tribute Synergy Dam: SGC...
07/27/2026

OLENTANGY SYNERGY TELLERYN
~1x BIS, 1x GCH; 3x 1st Junior Kid @ RVDGA

Sire: ++*B SG Redwood Hills Tribute Synergy
Dam: SGCH Olentangy Yukon Tellingly 9*M EX93

Fun story about this kid’s origin…I was having my bathrooms remodeled last fall and my contractor had taken over half of my garage with materials & equipment to store out of the rain. I normally AI in the garage (that’s where my tanks & repro equipment is stored) so I dragged out a milk stand to the driveway behind the contractor’s equipment trailer & started to AI Lingly. The contractor came outside to get something, he stopped & watched & I explained what I was doing & I said, “I could use another hand, hold this! (the inserted speculum & sheath)”…and that’s how Lawrence & I made a baby. 😉 🐐

OLENTANGY OCT AURUM~1x BIS, 1x GCH, 2x RGCH; 2x 1st Senior Yearling @ RVDGASire: +*B GCH Olentangy Chimay Trademark EX90...
07/26/2026

OLENTANGY OCT AURUM
~1x BIS, 1x GCH, 2x RGCH; 2x 1st Senior Yearling @ RVDGA

Sire: +*B GCH Olentangy Chimay Trademark EX90
Dam: Olentangy Lance Airh 9*M EX91

Thanks again to Gail Swanson for organizing the Lelia Berry Memorial show @ the Jackson County Fair in Southern Oregon last weekend. It was a very hot day but really one of the best of my summer. I’m on my way home now from judging another hot one (102* in Great Falls, MT) @ the Montana State Fair, a show run by another dedicated, longtime ADGA member Gwen Dormandy. This is my third time judging that fair & the 4-H served ice cream next to the showring was as good as ever!

EDITED: Yesterday was our 31st linear appraisal session; 10 does scored, 7 were first fresheners….and some of these does...
07/24/2026

EDITED: Yesterday was our 31st linear appraisal session; 10 does scored, 7 were first fresheners….and some of these does have 15 consecutive generations of data dating back to our first Classification in 1986. Thank you to my friends for all their help and especially to Ashlee Tarbox for managing the does while I have been away judging or showing this summer, they haven't missed a beat! Pictured is TARANTELLA.

GCH Olentangy Rochester Tarantella 11*M 3-03 EX93/E E E E
GCH (pend) Olentangy Master Tellurion 10*M 3-02 EX91/V E E E
GCH (pend) Olentangy Rockstar Avril 11*M 2-04 VG89/V E V E (FF)
Olentangy Chimay Tabini 8*M 2-05 VG86/V V V G
Olentangy Chimay Teruggi 2-03 G+84/G V V G (FF-3 weeks fresh)
Olentangy Chimay Tellurous 2-02 VG89/V E G E (FF)
CH (pend) Olentangy Chimay Vivienne 2-02 VG89/V E V E (FF)
CH (pend) Olentangy Master Chipengali 2-00 VG89/V E E E (FF)
Olentangy Legit Telluret 1-04 VG87/V V V V (FF)
CH (pend) Olentangy Jive Blue Chip 1-04 VG87/G V G E (FF)

OLENTANGY CHIMAY TELLUROUS~1x GCH, 2x RGCH; 3x 1st 2 year-old @ RVDGASire: ++*B Olentangy OAA ChimayDam: SGCH Olentangy ...
07/21/2026

OLENTANGY CHIMAY TELLUROUS
~1x GCH, 2x RGCH; 3x 1st 2 year-old @ RVDGA

Sire: ++*B Olentangy OAA Chimay
Dam: SGCH Olentangy Yukon Tellingly 9*M EX93

ROU is my “next year goat” with beautiful udder traits (perfect teats & a 50 fore udder potential!) but a gangly, teenager body right now. She took the trip the worst and I’m hoping she comes around by Thursday’s appraisal session, we’ll see what the week brings. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m a little up in the air how to breed her, lately my mind has landed on +*B Redwood Hill Klein Beau for 2027 kids.

Who’s that girl?CH (pend) OLENTANGY JIVE BLUE CHIP~2x GCH, 1x RGCH @ RVDGASire: +B Kickapoo-Valley Make it Jive VG88, '2...
07/20/2026

Who’s that girl?

CH (pend) OLENTANGY JIVE BLUE CHIP
~2x GCH, 1x RGCH @ RVDGA

Sire: +B Kickapoo-Valley Make it Jive VG88, '24 Premier Sire
Dam: GCH Olentangy Chimay Chippin’ Away 11*M EX92

BLUEY got her first haircut, road trip & show as a big girl and she handled it pretty well until BIS where the heat was too much & she tried to lie down & take a nap…so into the wash rack she went for an afternoon soak! She reminds me of her fancy, paternal 1/2 sister PHRENZY (2026 National Show 4th/1st Udder 4 yr-old)…I’m so happy that the impossible to-find semen (an early Christmas present instead of coal for me in 2024) produced the anticipated vision after judging Alpines & the 1st place Sr Get in Louisville!

BLUEY is another, TENTH consecutive generation show champion, predominantly created through AI breedings. She will be bred this fall AI to +*B GCH Tempo Aquila MasterCraftsman EX92

It was a “Chimayzing” day @ the Rogue Valley DGA’s Lelia Berry memorial show in extremely hot, southern Oregon. I’ve bee...
07/20/2026

It was a “Chimayzing” day @ the Rogue Valley DGA’s Lelia Berry memorial show in extremely hot, southern Oregon. I’ve been driving 5 hours straight to escape the smoke & triple digits and it’s now cool enough after a beautiful sunset to take a break. I try to attend this show when I can because it reminds me of times in dairy goats that made me happy…that rarely happens anymore. Lelia was a great friend & advisor who I miss…I think of our last conversations often and wonder what perspective she would provide now…she was a past President of ADGA, a Linear Appraiser (I was on the committee when she resigned as chair to become an appraiser) she chaired a number of committees and implemented many great things for ADGA (certificate of ID for our youth member wethers & pack goats is all because of her!) It’s because of her that I became the ADGA Sire Development Committee Chair (precursor to Genetic Advancement Committee) and the weekend we had in Salmond, ID with Teresa Wade (founder of Biogenics, LTD…there’s a reason the sire evaluation data is in the catalog & we drafted the literature that weekend & it still appears in their catalog over 25 years later) when she & Doug Vogtman drove up to “teach” me how to calculate the QL’s for the YSDP, gave me boxes of papers & left me saying, “it’s all yours now.” I’m sad how few exhibitors at today’s show even know anything about her & no one asked. I greatly appreciate talking with Christina Lindner and sharing stories. The drive home is always lonely…425 miles to think & wonder about things…I like to think the reason I heard from different people on the way down Saturday & all day today was thanks to her…she really did love her Nubians. 😊 I still have her remaining semen inventory & secretly hope to have the right doe come across my way to use one of her bucks again. 🤔

There are thousands of memorial plaques or signs at county fairgrounds across the country, I see them nearly at every venue I show or judge. I hope that when you see one in the future that you will merely ask, “Who was that person, I’d like to know.” If you ask me, and I know, I promise to tell you.

An Oregon adventure awaits!
07/19/2026

An Oregon adventure awaits!

OLENTANGY ROCKSTAR CHIP Z’NUFF~1x BIS, 2x GCH, 1x RCH; 3x 1st Intermediate Kid @ NEWDGASire: +*B Olentangy X-***ed Rocks...
06/22/2026

OLENTANGY ROCKSTAR CHIP Z’NUFF
~1x BIS, 2x GCH, 1x RCH; 3x 1st Intermediate Kid @ NEWDGA

Sire: +*B Olentangy X-***ed Rockstar
Dam: GCH Olentangy Chimay Chippin’ Away 10*M EX92

https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=A002502462

Lil’ CHIP was a natural in the ring for her first time ever attempted to be set-up, standing still & enjoying all the attention. I’m sold out of ROCKSTAR semen; however, Frozen Assets/Karen Lewis has limited quantities as she was his last owner if you want to incorporate him into your fall breeding plans, contact her to make it happen!

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