Man in the Moon Farm LLC

Description

Ganymede is a 4xJC AOA Nat’l Supreme Champion and he's making them! His daughter, CNTRL Ganymede's Hannah B, has 22 Championships and 4 Judges Choice awards competing as a fawn female -AND- she is the 2021/22 #5 female in the Nation!!

Championships of his offspring are adding up - new Champions made and repeat Judges Choice offspring in the 2022 shows!!! See who's winning under the Awards section below. With relatively few offspring, we're seeing a lot of very positive results!

"This male shows extremely strong fiber traits that should be passed to his offspring...Bred to top notch females, you should expect many champions." -- Comments from Dr. Norm Evans' biopsy report

He is the 2017 AOA National Light Male Supreme Champion! 15X consecutive Banners including 4X Judge's Choice! We are thrilled, humbled, and honored to have this magnificent young male...You've just got to see his fleece -- it's the same ALL over!

A Banner for every show he attended in the 2016/2017 show season! Ganymede has an advanced elite fleece, indeed, and a gorgeous, boxy conformation! Judges called it early on...and he has achieved top honors at the 2017 AOA National Show as the Supreme Champion Light Huacaya Male, including the White Invited Male Color Championship, bringing his total to 12X Banners and 4X Judges Choice awards (PAOBA, CABO, TxOLAN, Nationals)...Ganymede has an amazing fleece with an unbelievable structure and density. He exhibits a tight little zipper crimp with extreme uniformity, matchstick bundling, brightness and fineness across his fleece...the character lasting well down into his legs and belly.

SKIN BIOPSY was performed at 30 months of age by Dr. Norm Evans in December 2017. Of note, his 15x scan shows large fiber clusters uniform in shape and placement within his connective tissue. This uniformity trait likely came from his dam. His scan shows only 4 guard type hairs from the 6800+ fibers in his 10 MM tissue punch. His true density is 86.75 follicles per SQ MM of skin. He shows a level 2 of 4 gland structure, with an average S/P ratio of 14.1 to 1, and only 11% of his secondary fibers are medullated which is rare since the average is near 60%. His 250x scan shows the presence of many round secondary fibers, and one hundred typical secondary fibers averaged 17.8 microns.

Ganymede is Co-Owned with Rancho Inca Alpacas located in Navasota TX

Awards

OFFSPRING CHAMPIONSHIPS:

4X JUDGES CHOICE FEMALE & 22X CNTRL GANYMEDE’S HANNAH B

FAWN FEMALE HALTER - MAN IN THE MOON'S PERUVIAN AYLA

WHITE MALE HALTER - MAN IN THE MOON’S PERUVIAN CERBERUS

WHITE MALE HALTER - MAN IN THE MOON'S PERUVIAN COSMOS

2X WHITE MALE HALTER - CNTRL GANYMEDE’S IZOD

2X LIGHT MALE HALTER - JENNIFER’S ROCKET OF HLLTP

LIGHT WALKING FLEECE - GYPSY WILLOW OF FUNKY FLEECE FARM

LIGHT WALKING FLEECE - CAELUM'S STORM TROOPER

2X LIGHT WALKING FLEECE - RIDGE VALLEY CALLISTA OF GANYMEDE

FIRST PLACE HALTER - NUMEROUS

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GANYMEDE'S AWARDS:

2017 AOA NATIONAL LIGHT MALE SUPREME CHAMPION - JUDGES AMANDA VANDENBOSH, JILL MACLEOD & DAVID BARBOZA

2017 AOA NATIONAL INVITED COLOR CHAMPION + FIRST PLACE, WHITE MALE - JUDGES AMANDA VANDENBOSH & JILL MACLEOD

JUDGE'S CHOICE 2017 CAROLINA ALPACA CELEBRATION - JUDGES DIANA TIMMERMAN & AMANDA VANDENBOSH

JUDGE'S CHOICE 2017 TXOLAN SPECTACULAR - JUDGES AMANDA VANDENBOSH & KATHY KLAY

BEST BRED & OWNED + 1ST PLACE 2017 PAOBA BREEDERS SHOWCASE MALES - JUDGE JUDE ANDERSON + ROBIN NASSEMAN

JUDGE'S CHOICE 2016 PAOBA BREEDERS SHOWCASE - JUDGES JILL MACLEOD & DIANA TIMMERMAN

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2017 ROYAL ALPACA CHALLENGE - ,WHITE YEARLING MALE - JUDGE KRISTIN BUHRMANN

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2017 CAROLINA ALPACA CELEBRATION - WHITE MALE - JUDGE DIANA TIMMERMAN

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2017 TXOLAN SPECTACULAR - WHITE MALE - JUDGE AMANDA VANDENBOSH

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2016 PAOBA BREEDERS SHOWCASE - WHITE MALE - JUDGE JILL MACLEOD

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2016 VAOBA EXPO - WHITE MALE - JUDGE DIANA TIMMERMAN

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2016 EMPIRE EXTRAVAGANZA - LIGHT MALES + BEIGE YEARLING MALE - JUDGE HELEN TESTA

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2016 NEAOBA FALL SPECTACULAR - LIGHT MALES + BEIGE YEARLING MALE - JUDGE JUDE ANDERSON

COLOR CHAMPION + 1ST PLACE 2016 HEART OF VIRGINIA - WHITE MALE - JUDGE WADE GEASE

RESERVE CHAMPION + 2ND PLACE 2016 ROYAL ALPACA CHALLENGE - WHITE MALE YEARLING - JUDGE SARA JANE MCCLELLAN

1ST PLACE 2016 AOA NATIONALS - BEIGE JUVENILE MALE LEVEL V - 1 OF 12 - JUDGE KRISTIN BUHRMANN

3RD PLACE 2016 CAROLINA ALPACA CELEBRATION - WHITE JUVENILE MALE LEVEL IV (HIS 1/2 BROTHER TOOK 1ST) - 3 OF 9 - JUDGE AMANDA VANDENBOCH

3RD PLACE 2016 SOUTHERN SELECT - WHITE JUVENILE MALE - 3 OF 10 - JUDGE KRISTEN BERMAN

GANYMEDE IS AN INCREDIBLE PACKAGE AND HE WAS VERY COMPETITIVE IN THE MOST DIFFICULT SPRING 2016 WHITE JUVIE MALE CLASS DESPITE HIS LATE SHEARING. EACH TIME HE'S SHOWN, HE'S GOTTEN THE ATTENTION OF THE JUDGE. HE IS ONE THAT POPS OUT IN THE CROWD...UPON CLOSE EXAMINATION, HE HAS IT ALL -- EXTREME UNIFORMITY, BRIGHTNESS, FINENESS, DENSITY, ETC. CARRYING DOWN INTO HIS BELLY, LEGS, HEAD.

IN HIS 3RD PLACE WINS, BOTH JUDGES WERE THRILLED WITH HIS FLEECE CHARACTER AND UNIFORMITY, AS WELL AS HIS OUTSTANDING CONFORMATION (VERY TYPEY OVERALL), AND STATED THAT THE MALES ABOVE HIM HAD SLIGHTLY FINER MICRON; HOWEVER, GANYMEDE'S GENETICS PUT HIM ON A TRAJECTORY OF LASTING FINENESS, AS EVIDENCED BY HIS 2016 FLEECE STATS!