Crispina is with us since March 2008. At 19, she's still happily running around with the crias.
Again, we know that this female doesn't have the best of look (like most of our first alpacas), but I think that it's important for our alpaca friends and customers to know where we've started.
Crispina is a Hemingway grand-daughter. Her great-grand-mother is a grey female coming from the breeding program of Dr Stachowski. 2 of her grand sons are greys, Atlantik (RC DSG) and Autello (DRG).
Mama Crouspou had many daughters for us, starting with ACA Xenia who came with her at purchase. Xenia is a strong pillar in our breeding program, producing 7 females for us (6 in a row!!!). She is the dam of 1st place winner Aquarelle, 3x Champion Allure, Adrenaline who is the dam of RC grey Atlantik and 1st place winner Aucean and finally, Xenia is the dam of Azira who also produced 1st place winner! Xenia did a lot for us.
Her next female was Ariva. Ariva is very fine. AFD 16.9 SD 3.9 CV 23.0 and + 30% 0.9 at 2 years old! Ariva is a daughter of MMR Marcoyo. It turns out that this female is producing females! 4 females to 1 male to date (talking from Jan. 2021).
Coming next was Actrice. Actrice is the full sister of Aslam, who was a stunning male in both conformation and fleece. Sadly, Actrice has inherit her dam look. I would consider her as Crispina's worst cria in term of overall quality, but the friendliest ! Actrice's crias were surprinsingly good! They had nice fleece caracteristics but all have her look. Due to the abondance of her genetics, Actrice is retired after 3 crias. Actrice won the 1st place in Obstacle with me back in 2015!
In 2015, her daughter was Adoby. She is one of our best white female ever produced. 1st place at her first show. She has an amazing crimp that remains with age that is uniform from her chest to her tail!
Crispina was retired after giving birth to her last cria Abelle in 2017. Another beauty that we held in high esteem!
To date, 20 of our 32 females are her descendants! That is 62.5% of our females!!! That means that we have in our program only 5 maternal lines : Crispina's, Theodora's (through Akyrima and Aure), Evorabelle's (through Alfée and Aube), Audiny's (Audiny, Aureo, Anita and Andean Shadow) and Shy Ann's (through Ann and on the paternal side of Akyrima and Alfée and Aube's dam).
Slowly, we are getting a bit more of variety in our females bloodlines (before it was pretty much near 80% of our herd that was related to her), but Crispina's will live forever in our herd throughout her grand daughter Allure and her great-grand daughter Aloha Sunshine offsprings...