After seeing Sienna's first two cria when bred to Sierra Bonita's Teewinot, we knew she would prove to be one of our best dams. Her first cria, Cecily, had this as her first year histogram: AFD 15.3 SD 3.6 CV 23.6 CF 100%. She won second place out of a class of six yearlings at the Wild West Alpaca Fleece Show in 2007. Sienna's second cria, BMR Mercedes, won the Light Color Championship at the same show as a juvenile. Her third cria born in Fall 2008, was a handsome dark brown male with all the fiber characteristics of his two sisters. We named him "Seth".
Sienna boasts Peruvian Hemingway as her grandsire. Check out her impressive histogram for 2007: 22 micron diameter with a CV of 19.1% and only 3.6% over 30. This for a 6-year old medium fawn! At 8 years of age and through 4 pregnancies, her 2009 histogram came back with a 23.8 micron and a CV of 19.4.
Sienna has the Hemingway crimp: low amplitude, high frequency. All this on a medium brown male with perfect conformation! Samson's first year histogram proved what a perfect combination that breeding was, showing off at: 15.7 AFD, 2.7 SD, 17.1 CV, 0.6%>30. Bred to VF Yahoo Too, this cria combined the genetics of Hemingway, Felix, Yupanqui and Snowmaster.
Sienna gave birth on Oct 20 to a fabulous fawn female. The Hemingway genetic coming from both sides of her pedigree was one of the best breeding decisions we've made. Her name? "Sahara". Sahara brought home the Reserve Champ banner at SWRAS 2014!