Colusa Riverside Alpacas

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Bred to A Man Among Men

Snow Diamond Sage

Huacaya, Female, Unproven | White

Sire:

Snowmass Defiance 

| AOA# 31795807  | White  |

Snowmass Defiance is one of only a few outside males we have found worthy of incorporation into the Accoyo America white breeding program. His genetics combine the lasting fineness found in the Hemingway and Legacy lines with the low medullation for which the Elite line is particularly well known. His merino-style fleece is maintaining impeccable fineness, uniformity, and high curvature as he enters middle age, and he carries it on a strong frame with impressive substance of bone. We love his headstyle also. While we will use Defiance to diversify the bloodlines in our white breeding program, it is worth noting that he has produced color also, just like his well-known sire Elite Legend. Defiance is proudly co-owned with Snow Diamond Alpacas.

Dam:

Grandioso's Serenade 275 

| AOA# 31561051  | Beige  |

Serenade comes from good stock: Her grandsire on her dam's side is Legacy, now deceased, whose progeny can be found in respected breeding programs all across the country. On the top side of her pedigree, Serenade has the venerable Royal Fawn; National Age and Color Champion, Royal Peruvian Apollo; and 6X Champion SA Peruvian Grandioso. That's quite a lineup.

Serenade has bright fleece with a heavenly hand and the consistency and lasting fineness that we all covet. Her first-year histogram showed an ADF of 15.8 microns, and at more than five years of age, her AFD was 21.2 (baby-grade) with a CV of just 16.3. She currently places in the top 1% of EPDs for SDAFD and %M, and the top 2.2% for %>30.

Serenade was the first female on our farm to produce a cria by the phenomenal Snowmass Defiance, and this young female is beautiful!

With her sweet, cooperative disposition and anything-goes attitude, Serenade is a joy to have on the farm.

Service Sire:

Majestic's A Man Among Men 

5x Champ, One of a Kind Herdsire

Majestic's A Man Among Men

Huacaya, Male, Proven, Beige

ARI# 35293538 | DOB: 6/23/2015

This Jumanji son has it all. Most importantly a winning show record for both fleece and halter. We purchased A Man Among Men at the 2016 futurity and he has been winning every since. His record as a juvenile is unmatched, starting with the 2016 Futurity and ending with being in the running for Supreme Champion at the 2017 AOA Nationals. At the nationals he received light color champion in the Invited light classification. Man now has many babies on the ground that truly reflect all his eli...

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| AOA# 35293538  | Beige 

Description

Sage is a new acquisition from Snow Diamond Alpacas. She comes from exceptional stock. We originally went to purchase her sister whose histogram and EPDs are exemplary, after seeing her we bought Sage without a histogram or EPD knowing what her sister had and the lineage of Sage. We were not disappointed. The purchase of Sage and Breeze from Snow Diamond was to integrate improvement in our herds AFDSD. Our goal is to have all animals below 4.0 and the higher goal of at or around 3.0. Both of these girls are in the 1% trait value for AFDSD.

Sage's fleece character traits are superior. She has a beautiful fine fleece with plenty of luster and soft handle. It is quite difficult to find any primary fibers and when you do they are mistaken for secondary fibers they are so fine. She is very dense, with an AFD of 21 micron at age 3, but an SD of 2.8. That is amazing uniformity. This was her first histogram, so imagine what she was like at age 1. Miraculously she has little loss in staple length with that AFD & SD.

Sage's topside is Snowmass Defiance and bottom is Grandioso's Serenade, both great bloodlines. Bloodlines that will bring some outside genetics to our program with guaranteed improvement to our program in the areas we need most.

Sage has excellent substance of bone and her phenotype shows good conformation. She has been bred to Majestic's A Man Among Men and we expect a great offspring from this breeding. Sage's SD is in AOA's 1% ranking which is just what we needed. She is in the 5% ranking for 4 out of 5 fineness traits. She is being bred to Majestic's Man to improve her staple length EPD. One percent in SD is truly one EPD that is difficult to come by and even more difficult to breed for, so we are more than pleased with this young foundation dam. She will add some very desirable genetics potential into our herd in one breeding with this pairing.

Take a look at her overall EPD trait profile for 2018 under the EPD icon above.