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Fred & Beth Cripe

10892 W 100 S
Russiaville, IN, 46979

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Mojo's Surprise Cria!

DLUXMDW Padre's Mojo Mochalico

Suri, Male, Unproven | Dark Brown

AOA# 36098248 D.O.B. 9/24/2021 (4 yrs)

Sire:

Fiore's Padre Pio

23.0 AFD @ 13 Years Old!

Fiore's Padre Pio

Suri, Herdsire (Male), Proven, Beige

ARI# 31363594 | DOB: 9/27/2008

Padre is our favorite adult male. He is the alpha of the male herd despite being the smallest at 160 lbs. He is also sweet, kind, and easy to handle. Padre’s staple length is only 4 inches, and he doesn’t produce a lot of fleece so we jacket him in the coldest weather, but he has maintained amazing fineness and luster into his teens.

Padre is a grandson of legendary herdsire CPeruvian Accoyo Jackpot, whose genes flow through the Goldstar, Belmonte, and Kaden lines

In October 2020 w...

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| AOA# 31363594 | Beige

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Mojolica

| AOA# 31959933 | Bay Black

Mojo is registered as a dark brown but she is a solid bay black. And she has blue eyes. And extremely fine fiber, which is rare in blacks. Her AFD at 20 months of age was 19.1, at 4 years, 8 months old, her AFD was 17.2 and she still posted an AFD of 27.8 at 12 years, 8 months of age. Mojo has short (4 inch) staple length and zero lock structure, so she will never win a halter show; but her fiber has such velvety soft handle that it is an absolute joy to spin. The resulting yarn is a warm, lively black color, with velvety luster and softness. The Judges Choice Award for handspun skeins at the 2022 Suri Network Fleece Show was won by a skein of 50% Mojo and 50% yak. After we purchased Mojo, we spent three years trying to breed her with no success. Finally, in October of 2020, we bred her to our own Padre Pio. After a couple of weeks, we spit tested her with a male and…nothing. Mojo just stood there calmly eating her hay-no spitting, shrieking or running away. A week later, we tested her again with the same result. We decided that Mojo was apparently no longer fertile and that we would just enjoy her company and her fiber. When we participated in the SHIP program in April 2021, we left Mojo at home with the non-breeding females. In September of 2021, we returned from a 5 day mini vacation to find Mojo in the process of giving birth to Mochalico, a dark brown male with long lustrous locks . Mocha has grown into a beautiful yearling who shimmers when he walks. Mojo update: Mojo's 2023 cria was a dystocia and was stillborn. Given her age and that this was her second consecutive dystocia, we have retired Mojo from our breeding program, although she will always be a valued member of our herd. Mojo by The Numbers: Color Genetics: Ee aa NON-Grey Histogram ............... 4/2014 ................. 5/2020 ................... 4/2022 AFD ............................. 17.2 ....................... 27.3 ..........................27.8 SDAFD .......................... 4.6 ......................... 9.1 ............................ 6.9 F%>30 ........................... 2.6% .................... 28.5% ...................... 28.3% MSL .............................. N/A ...................... 87 (4.0 in) ............... 95 ( 4.3 in)

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Mocha was our Surprise! Baby. We had tried unsuccessfully for three years to get Mojo pregnant with several different males. Finally in early October 2020, we paired her with our own Padre Pio (who is a very good breeder) even though the color match wasn’t our first choice. The breeding seemed to go fine (as may others had previously) but when we spit tested her a week later, she didn’t react. No spitting, no shrieking, no running away. She just stood there, eating hay. A week later, we spit tested her again. Still nothing. After three years, we concluded it just wasn’t going to happen, so we decided to not breed her further and just enjoy her fiber and company (she’s a really sweet girl.)

Fast forward to mid September 2021. We went on our usual 5 day vacation between two of the reenactments Beth does every year, and when we returned on Friday afternoon Mocha was in the process of being born. Both his legs were out, but his head hadn’t made an appearance, so we called our vet. She spent about a half hour getting his head in the correct position and shortly thereafter, we had a 16 pound dark brown cria with black nose, ears and legs. We thought about naming him Providence (because if he’d been born a day earlier, we would probably have lost both him and Mojo), but we settled on Mocha for his coloring.

Oh, and lessons learned: we now always do a progesterone test before we determine that a female we’ve bred is not pregnant.

Mocha grew like a weed and at 15 months, weighed 148 pounds. He’s exactly what you would expect from the offspring of a Jackpot grandson and a MacGyver granddaughter: a tall, rangy male with long lustrous locks.

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3rd Place Brown Male Juvenile, 2022 Suri Network Fleece Show

Updated 5/31/2025

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