Description

Lingering fineness is a highly inheritable trait and Grace is loaded with the potential to add that trait to your breeding program. You owe it to yourself and your breeding program to take a look at what she is inheriting from her paternal grandmother Paradise Ridge Chaccuna. http://www.openherd.com/alpacas-for-sale/10707/paradise-ridge-chaccuna


Chaccuna is a 5Peruvian Chaccu daughter and PPeruvian Vengador granddaughter.

MEASURABLE FLEECE QUALITIES: This is where Chaccuna excels and what keeps her at the top of our Huacaya foundation female list. Talk about lingering fineness. At 12 years old her histogram results are note worthy: AFD 25.8, SD 4.9, CV 18.8 , SF 24.7, %>30 15.

Then there are her EPD (Expected Progeny Differences) results as a 12 year old production female:

Trait Value Acc Rank
AFD -0.938 0.377 3080 of 27776 In the top 11% in expectation for improving fineness*

SDAFD -0.33 0.376 1817 of 27776 In the top 7% in expectation for lowering micron*

%F>30 -4.5 0.387 2265 of 27776 In the top 8% in expectation for improving uniformity*

MC 2.551 0.376 1955 of 27776 In the top 7% in expectations to create higher frequency of crimp*

%M -1.768 0.186 3131 of 27776 In the top 11% in the expectation to reduce overall fiber medullation*

*than the breed average for all huacaya females and all colors

Grace's sire is CF Cuzco. He is Chaccuna's first male cria and he is carrying those same lingering fineness genes. It isn't often that you see the fiber stats of a 9 year old breeding male emphasized but we think you will be impressed. AFD 23.4, SD 4.5, CV 18.6, SF 22.3 %>30 6.3 It is no wonder we turn to him to improve fineness and handle.

If you are serious about improving your breeding program Grace has tremendous potential to do just that for you. The breeding of Champagne to our CF Cuzco was a well planned and thought out decision. Grace is showing we made a good one. Her fiber is fine and dense with great character and extreme brightness.