Bada Bing Farm Dairy

Bada Bing Farm

A family run dairy in the heart of Lancaster County

Show Quality Experimentals

We reserve the right to select animals for our herd's needs.

Experimental Links

Thank you for your interest in our Experimentals. We never had any intention of raising Experimentals...it just sort of happened. We purchased a doe, Kritter Kountry J Ella, who is a Nubian and just so happened to be bred to a Saanen. We figured we would just sell her offspring but she gave us two wonderful doeling Snubians. We quickly fell in love with them and were amazed at how fast they seemed to grow. Thus, our Experimental dairy goat herd was started.

After becoming a Grade A Dairy in the spring of 2009, we realized the Experimentals would play a key role in our commercial operation as well as the show ring. They seemed to combine all the wonderful aspects of each breed, are extremely hardy, and grow at an amazing rate. Besides, it is just as much fun to win in the show ring with them as it is with our Purebreds!

Experimental Dairy Goat

ADGA provides all of its judges with a scorecard to evaluate dairy goats. The scorecard for Senior does assigns the following priorities: general appearance 35%, mammary system 35%, dairy character 20%, and body capacity 10%. The Junior doe is allocated for general appearance 55%, dairy character 30%, and body capacity 15%. For Bucks, general appearance is allotted 55%, dairy character 30%, and body capacity 15%. In addition, the judge must see that each animal meets the breed standard for its breed.

On the ADGA scorecard, general appearance is defined as "An attractive framework with femininity (masculinity in bucks), strength, upstandingness, length, and smoothness of blending throughout that create an impressive style and graceful walk."

In mammary system, the judge seeks one that is "Strongly attached, elastic, well-balanced with adequate capacity, quality, ease of milking, and indicating heavy milk production over a long period of usefulness."

Dairy character is "Angularity and general openness with strong, yet refined and clean bone structure, showing freedom from coarseness and with evidence of milking ability giving due regard to stage of lactation (or of breeding season in bucks)."

Finally, body capacity should be "Relatively large in proportion to size, age, and period of lactation of the animal (or of breeding season for bucks), providing ample capacity, strength and vigor."

There are a number of defects which may cause the judge to disqualify an animal, such as blindness, serious emaciation, permanent lameness, double teats or other permanent physical defects.