Bird's Eye Farm

Dime Piece, better known as Chimi, is a powerful doe with tremendous body capacity, standing 22 inches at the withers. She has a long, level topline, straight front legs and nice rear leg angulation. Chimi has a gleeful appetite for pasture and hay. She doesn’t have the elegant angularity of some dairy does, a quality are working to improve on with her offspring.

Chimi first freshened in 2019 with a soft, well-attached, capacious udder with good teat placement and lovely open orifices, making her a joy to milk. She rocked an epic 570-day extended lactation in 2022-2023, peaking near 4 pounds per day and easily earning her 4*M designation. Filling a half-gallon jar with the day’s milk—from one little Nigie—is quite satisfying!

With both parents from Castle Rock Farm, Chimi has superb dairy genetics. Her dam, Castle Rock Worth Every Penny 3*M *D, produced 740 pounds of milk in 247 days as a yearling first-freshener and 950 pounds in a 305-day second lactation. Her sire’s dam, GCH CRF Castle Rock Roxanne 1*M *D VEEE 91, has quite the mammary reputation, having won Best Udder of Breed fourteen times.

Chimi and her half-sis Zadie are our foundation does, and we feel lucky to have begun our herd with such fine genetics. As the saying goes: "They say she’s a dime; I say she’s underrated."