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The genetics in Skyfyre's pedigree are superb. The genetics in the males and females found in the pedigree are not only siring and producing banner winners, but they are also siring and producing National Supreme Champions. Skyfyre's sire is MMALP Beau's Anvil and while Anvil had only a so-so show career, his sire was Black Beau of PVA and Black Beau was Color Champion at The Futurity, Nationals, and The Suri Network All Suri Fleece Show. Black Beau has sired champions and those genetics are in Anvil and now Skyfyre. For Skyfyre it isn't just the herdsires adding a lot of great genetics to his pedigree, his sire Anvil's dam is a National Champion Kahuna daughter named Eagle Valley Zambia. Zambia produced the 2018 AOA Nationals Light Suri Male Supreme Champion. Zambia has had 6 crias sired by 4 different males and four, or two thirds of them, have won banners. Zambia is a stud production female.

Skyfyre's dam Grace's Kinley By Electrofyre was sired by 9 time Judge's Choice winner WLK Electrofyre and it's proven that he is siring champions as he has 14 Get of Sire wins to his name. Electrofyre also sired the back to back Nationals Light Sure Male Supreme Champion in 2016 and 2017 named Electrofyre's Cosmic Dust! Skyfyre's dam's dam does not quite have the genetic notoriety of the rest of the pedigree, but it does contain two great champion black males in Kobe of PVA and King Kong. From top to bottom, Skyfyre's pedigree is that of a winner.

Skyfyre has a great Suri phenotype and when he was shown at GWAS, the judges loved his look.. His lustrous fleece has a consistant lock structure across his body. The fleece is fine and dense. EPDs were considered when we put Skyfyre's sire Anvil with his dam Grace to produce him. Anvil is top 10% for AFD, SF, and %>30 while Grace is top 25% for SDAFD and FW. Grace is almost top 25% for MSL, too. So, Anvil was chosen to improve Grace's weaker areas and vice-versa. It only shows that if Skyfyre didn't have a nice fleece on him it would be a surprise if you look at both the genetics mentioned earlier and the fleece statistics of his sire and dam. The judges at GWAS also commented that Skyfyre has a fine fleece that is soft and has a slick handle. Estimated EPD rankings can be seen by clicking on the link.

The EPDs have been estimated based upon his genetics. We finally had his fleece submitted for EPDs in 2021. This is a lot longer than we ever wanted it to be to get that second histogram done and submitted for EPDs. We are disappointed and we don't believe it's accurate. We wonder if our shearer took a belly area sample from the blanket. We leave it up to the shearing team to get the sample. When we get enough staple to get a nice sample, we will get it tested again. But in the meantime, we want to be forthright and post the histogram we did get for people to see. He doesn't have the handle of a 32 micron fleece with a 10 standard deviation. His fleece has a soft, slick handle.