We hit pay dirt with Loretta and she has been the standard to which the rest of our milkers are held. She has a strong will-to-milk, milking through two different fire evacuations and sustaining a 500+ day lactation without dipping under 2lbs on any test. She set the template for our once-a-day milkers with a capacious udder that can comfortably hold 24 hours of milk. While Loretta has a lovely broad head, that width doesn’t carry through to her body until you hit her udder. She’s narrower through the chest than we’d prefer and a bit loose in the shoulders. Though, while her rump is steep, she has fast, smooth kiddings, preferring to deliver her kiddos from a standing, just chillin’, position. She maintains condition despite putting so much into the jar and has healthy boundaries with her kids and weans them in a business-like fashion. She is a quiet, low maintenance doe and doesn’t need her head locked into the stanchion to stay on the stand while she’s milked. We don’t care that Loretta won’t win any blue ribbons in the show ring or score a 90 at appraisal. We’d take a dozen of her in a heartbeat.