We are anxiously anticipating our first cria of the year. As we prepare here on the ranch, we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce our impending new moms to be:
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| Evander's Knock Out |
Admittedly not one of my best alpaca photos, but Knock Out has always been a little camera shy. Knock Out is bred to our premier Herd Sire, Snowmass Golden Victory. Knock Out has produced some of our most beautiful alpacas to include one of our main marketing faces, Knock Out's Sugar N Spice, a beautiful multiple blue ribbon winning girl. We held Knock Out open after her fall 2009 cria to get her on a more favorable breeding cycle, so we've been waiting a long time for this baby! Serious cria watch begins for her on May 26th. Things we love about Knock Out is her sweet disposition, the insane amount of fine fleece she has always produced and the adorable phenotype she consistently throws. Expect this cria to be an adorable fiber blind fleece machine!
Next and right behind Knock Out is Moonshadow's October Sky. They were both bred to Snowmass Golden Victory a day apart. This will be Sky's first cria and 2nd maternal generation from our top original foundation dams, Madonna la Boliviana.
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| Moonshadow's October Sky |
Sky has a blue ribbon winning, gorgeous fleece. Her dam, Madonna, has consistently passed on a very soft handling fleece. Madonna still at 11 years old produces a fleece when spun into yarn will be the first to sell out of our store. All of her offspring have produced a high quality fleece that makes into our fastest selling yarns. Sky's Sire is CCNF Andean Fury, he is still a major fleece producer after several years of breeding and passing on his outstanding qualities. So waiting on Sky's cria is quite exciting too. Not only are we excited to cross the Fury and Golden Victory lines, this should be an extraodinarily fleeced cria and will be the first offspring born at Moonshadow out of a Madonna daughter! This may not sound like that big of a deal, but considering we purchased Madonna in 2002, this has been a long time coming! Beyond all this, last year Madonna produced an offspring from Golden Victory we think is one of the best we've produced here. How can you not get excited wondering what a step up from that will be like!
More introductions to come in our blog and updates on when the cria hit the ground. It's hard not to be repetitive, but we are excited for different reasons for every cria due. We carefully select each breeding pair and then wait so long to find out the results. Oh the anticipation, stay tuned!
