Xtender - breeding boer goat and his history in pictures

Thumbnail Picture	Date	Description
	Nov, 2000	Xtender was born November, 2000 on Thanksgiving Day
	Jan, 2001	When he was two months old, we were impressed by his length and size but we did not realize at that time just how impressive he was. He had a great top line and had a beautiful long neck connecting just right into his shoulders and chest. He had a show winning look even at this early age.
	Jan, 2001	People do not realize it but Xtender was from a set of twin buck kids. His brother, Pilgrim, was a paint and had similar body structure but just was not as big. We did not realize what we had in them and someone came by and bought him.
	Feb, 2001	You can see here at three months old that Xtender was a very large size kid with lots of muscle and meat.
	Mar, 2001	At four months old, he continued to get longer and deeper and wider. He had a great rear-end from the very beginning.
	Jul, 2001	When he was around five months old, he was looking so good to us that we asked a friend if she would take him and get him ready to show for us. She did and he placed at a few shows even though he was at the bottom of his class and then he won a Reserve Grand Champion Jr. Buck. We decided that was good enough for us and brought him home. This picture was taken right after we brought him home. I was disappointed in how he looked because he looked so long and lean and not stocky like some of the other buck. We were told that he was bigger than the other bucks his age and just had so much more frame to fill out.
	Apr, 2002	As you can see, he really started filling out his frame at 18 months old. We then KNEW we had a very special buck. The muscle is showing all through this picture and he was so thick and tall. He does not look tall in his pictures because it is not just legs. He has so much depth in his body. We realized pictures were not doing justice to the size of Xtender.
	Jun, 2002	You can see the deep curve in the rear-end and how much meat he carries there. You can also see the extreme length of body and extended neck line. But when people would come to visit our farm and see Xtender in person, they could not believe how big he was. They said we need to get a better picture showing his real size.
	Jul, 2002	This was the first picture we took trying to show his size. We put a large doe in to be bred and took the picture with Xtender beside her. It really shows his extreme length, depth, and muscle in the hind quarter.
	Aug, 2002	Here Xtender is still not two years old yet. I had washed and trimmed him trying to clean him up. He was walking around in the yard drying off and I decided to take some pictures of him. I really like this picture of him. It is a similar stance to several well-known bucks in South Africa and made a great comparison of how good Xtender looks against some of the best in the world.
	Feb, 2003	We had a farm magazine publish one of our articles and wanted a picture of us for the front page. We had someone come over to take some pictures for us. This was one of the pictures. It was not used for the magazine but we have used it on our web site to show the height of Xtender. Look at where the back of Xtender comes compared to our waist. We have been told by some people that do breeding services for some of the biggest named breeders in the U.S. that they have never seen a buck the size of Xtender.
	Mar, 2003	The buck with the dark head is Son of a Gun. He was a double Magnum bloodline buck we had for our 2003 breeding program. Xtender was around 30 months old and Son of a Gun was around 20 months old. We thought something was wrong with Son of a Gun because he looked so small. We took him to two shows where the big breeders were and he placed 4th at both shows and was average size compared to the other bucks. We realized we just could not compare other bucks to Xtender.
		Another comparison of Xtender to other bucks. This is Xtender on the right standing by one of our friend's main breeding bucks. They were the same age. Seeing is believing.
	Mar, 2003	Now, Xtender was about to mature in his growth. People wanted to see how wide he was in the front.
	Mar, 2003	This is Xtender at his mature size. Massive, long, deep and extreme front and hind quarter. The bonus of all of this is Xtender passes these traits along to many of his kids. We are constantly asked when we will sell him. The simple answer is probably never. He is not like other EGGSfile bucks and we believe that he was a once in a life time OOPs in Nature that is a great foundation for the next generation of boer goats.
	Ennobled in 2005 through his outstanding kids	A great end to this Picture History of Xtender.
Died in 2006 at a Ranch outside of Monterrey, Mexico