Smeg and I are thinking of going with a Nubian/Alpine cross for our goats. But we think we'd rather do the crossing ourselves by getting Nubian or Alpine does and doing AI with them. We aren't having bucks for several reasons, but the main one being they smell and they like to piss on themselves. Yes, we're serious.

So, today I'm doing some checking on Nubian and Alpines both does and AI straws. This of course leads to pureblood breeders.
Here is a sample of what they post:
5/150 AA CH Cherry Glen TRI Alice Aladdin AA1112393 (GCH Tangleroot Royal Image X GCH Foxhaven Molhead Alice) 40 straws
5/200 AA SGCH Cherry Glen MMM Aliceander AA1062153 (Madera SOS Mr. Majestic X GCH Foxhaven Molhead Alice) 20 straws
5/100 AA Cherry Glen Ideal Earl AA1179361 (Cherry Glen Radical Idea X GCH Sweet Dreams A Lil Etee 6*M) 30 Straws
5/100 AA Cherry Glen Dynamo Eros AA1115581 (Soft Mist Vision's Dynamo X GCH Sweet Dreams A Lil E'tee 6*M) 34 straws
5/250 AA SGCherry Glen WFSC Esquire AA1176644 (Walnut Fork Sundance Cheyenne X GCH Cherry Glen Teehead Eileen 7*M)

So we managed to decipher that the information in the paranthesies is the Sire and Dam. Okay. One? They have too many names. So the first name is the name of the farm . Cherry Glen or Tangleroot or Madera, then the name of the animal. So then I'm trying to figure out what the SGHC, GHC and CH stands for.

I decided to go to acronym finder and do a search for GHC. This is what I got: Ghanaian Cedi (ISO currency code)
GHC Group Health Cooperative (Seattle, Washington)
GHC Global Hybrid Cooperation (GM, BMW & DaimlerChrysler)
GHC Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
GHC Global Health Council (formerly National Council for International Health)
GHC Grays Harbor College (Aberdeen, Washington, US)
GHC Geo-Heat Center (Oregon Institute of Technology)
GHC Governor’s Hurricane Conference
GHC General Housing Corporation
GHC Georgia Heritage Council
GHC Glasgow Hardcore
GHC Green Hairy Caterpillar
GHC Guidance Heater Controller
GHC Guidance, Homing, Control


I finally realized that it was likely Grand High Champion, Supreme High Grand Champion and Champion. However from now until the day I die, GHC will mean Green Hairy Caterpillar.


In my mind there is now a goat out there named Green Hairy Caterpillar Tangleroot Royal Image. And you thought celebrities were bad to their children.