Description

Heracles absolutely floored us all when he was born. Solid medium brown— the same shade as his Dam Eos's spots— with a single dark steel grey spot on his lower hind leg, black freckles throughout his fleece, and tight popcorn curls absolutely everywhere. We couldn't have expected a better result out of our Eos and Nero pairing.

Heracles is one of our favourites. He is robust, compact and upright, with his sire's noble carriage and flashy movement style. He has the strong bone structure we enjoy seeing in our animals— he has mass without being bulky, and is completely correct, with excellent depth and capacity, correct angulation, and he is an easy keeper to top it all off.

We just love Heracles' fibre. He has an extremely bright, nicely organized fleece with a lovely amount of density relative to fineness. He has a high frequency, medium amplitude crimp style with coverage to spare. His fibre feels like silk, no matter where on his body you handle him, with areas such as his legs and apron feeling just as nice as his blanket. The crimp in his fleece extends up his neck, into his cheeks and topknot— and down onto his legs and over his lower belly. Heracles is a hand spinners dream, and with him maintaining a 95% comfort factor as a 10yo breeding male, we are not surprised at all that his yarn is still so beautiful.

As he has matured, he continues to produce a long-stapled, organized, and highly fine fleece, sharing his sire's propensity for lingering fineness. With his first fleece measuring in at 15.3 microns, at 10 years old he continues to maintain a 20 micron fleece, and it is this quality for lingering fineness that we value so heavily.

We started putting Heracles to females in the summer of 2020, with his first cria hitting the ground in 2021. Nemios is a carbon copy of his sire in phenotype, displaying the same uniformity of colour, extreme coverage with a deep, true to type head style, soft, fine handle, textbook conformation and excellent temperament. The two are nearly indistinguishable in the pasture, and we are very excited to give Heracles more work now that he is proven out.

Genotype: EeAa (EeAa3)