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Valorie & her scrumptious apricot fleece.

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Patch and Debbie Blakey

5120 Robinson Park RD
Moscow, ID, 83843

208-301-2121

www.StirlingRidgeAlpacas.com

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White

Easy keeper!

$1250

Stirling Ridge McCHEYNE

Medium Fawn

Fiber boy with nice fleece!

$700

EILONWY of Stirling Ridge

Medium Fawn

Fawn beauty!

$1000

STIRLING RIDGE OrFinn ANNIE

Medium Fawn

First cria on the ground! A girl!

$4000

Solid, square, proud.

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06/02/2009	15.3 3.49 22.77 CF 100 Staple length 95mm, Curve 38.0, sheared 5.5 lbs.at 8.5 months
05/26/2010	17.1 3.5 20.7 100 CF Curve 47 Min 16.5 Max 18.0 Staple 90mm, sheared 6.0 lbs.
05/28/2011	20.3 4.28 21.1 CF 96.7 96.7mm staple, sheared 9.23 lbs! (checked twice!)
06/09/2012	22.3 4.9 21.9 CF 93.2 Staple 90mm, Curve 37.7
06/12/2013	16.9 4.2 24.6 CF 99.2, staple 84.2, curve 53.1, spin fineness 17.0, sheared 7.7 lbs.
06/11/2014	17.8 4.4 24.5 CF 98.6, staple 78, curve 48.7, SF 17.9, sheared 7.79 lbs.
06/09/2015	18.7 4.6 24.7 CF 97.7%, staple 71.4, curve 47.4, SF 18.8, sheared 6.28 lbs.
06/10/2016	20.5 4.7 22.7 CF 96.1%, staple 75.8, curve 48.6, SF 20.2, sheared 7.40 lbs.
06/05/2017	20.3 5.6 27.7 CF 94.7%, staple 60.6mm, curve 49.2, SF 21.1, sheared 5.83 lbs.
06/04/2018	20.1 4.5 22.6 SF 19.8 CF 97.0, staple 66.4mm, curve 50.7, sheared 6.22 lbs.
06/05/2019	21.4 5.1 23.8 SF 21.3 CF 94.9, staple 70.8mm, curve 47.6, sheared 6.86 lbs
06/02/2020	19.8 4.3 21.9 SF 19.4 CF 97.7 staple 58mm, curve 44.5, sheared 6.25 lbs
06/02/2021	22.2 5.0 22.3 SF 21.8 CF 94.6 MSL 78mm, curve 50.5, sheared 4.54 lbs
06/07/2022	21.2 5.2 24.4 SF 21.3 CF 95%, staple 70mm, curve 50.5, sheared 4.87 lbs
06/03/2023	22.2 4.9 22.1 SF 21.8 CF 93.7%, staple 63mm, curve 52.0, sheared 4.25 lbs.
06/06/2024	20.0 4.9 24.7 CF 97.0%, staple 66mm, curve 52.1, SF 20.1, sheared 4.33 lbs
05/29/2025	21.2 5.6 26.6 CF 95.1%, staple 67mm, curve 49.9, SF 21.7, sheared 5.64 lbs

17 yrs: 22 micron & TOP 1% EPD FL Wt

Diomedes' VANORA of Stirling Ridge

Huacaya, Female, Proven | White

AOA# 31414920   D.O.B. 9/19/2008 (17 yrs) , 1/2 Peruvian, 1/2 Bolivian

Sire:
Accoyo America Diomedes
| AOA# 1201215  | White |

Awards Received
1st Place Halter, MAPACA 2006
2nd Place Halter, AOBA 2006 (he placed behind Crescent Moon's Shiftin' Gears and we heard that judge Jude Anderson spent a long time deciding between the two)
1st Place Fleece, Alpacapalooza 2007
1st Place Halter, Reserve Color Champion Northwest Showcase 2007
1st Place Fleece, Color Champion, Best Crimp, & Judge's Choice, Alpacapalooza 2008

Dam:
CMR Bolivian KUPCAKE
| AOA# 804394  | Dark Fawn |

Our dear Kupcake, first girl we bought, died May 2, 2016. She was a beautiful girl and it won't seem the same on the farm without this old matriarch. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord! She had a good life and served us very well. We will miss her.

At 16+ years at last shearing, Kupcake has a 23 micron fleece and still is one of our heaviest shearing weights! We recommend breeding her to Snowmass Snow Legend--and her price includes a breeding to your choice of selected studs of which Snow Legend is one.

Kupcake is a favored jewel on our farm. We have two particularly lovely daughters of hers, Vanora and Kenzie, and having them is the only reason we would part with Kupcake. Kupcake was the 2000 CABA Reserve Color Champion.

This is the girl we started our farm with. She's proven herself 6X for us and is an excellent dam, producing some of the best cria in our herd. Her last daughter, Vanora, currently has a 17 micron, 98% CF in her SIXTH year!

100% Bolivian, thick boned, solid conformation, pretty head with dark points, vicuna coloring on legs and underside and heavy, crimpy fleece. She's passed her hefty shearing weights and fleece character down to her cria.

Kupcake is an excellent production female: easy to get pregnant, easy births, attentive mother with lots of milk, thriving cria with excellent weight gain and high IgG scores.

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$2,500

One of my FAVORITES!

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Vanora (Nora) is now 17 years old but still gives us amazing fleece. She is retired now from being bred and does not come with any breeding guarantees.

Vanora has been bred in the past to Grazing Hills Bradford and birthed a gorgeous girl in 2020 named Kaeleigh who just delivered her first medium brown baby, Baeleigh. They both have amazing fleece with the super inherited quality of lingering fineness. Kaeleigh was such a looker, we rebred Vanora to Bradford for a 2021 cria and she had a dandy gorgeous boy named Locksley you should consider for stud! Vanora was bred in 2022 tp J Creek Passion Encore, a medium brown stud with an amazing EPD! She delivered a little gal we've named Bonny Lass 2023. With Vanora's EPD combined with Encore's EPD, we figured this would be a baby with phenomenal fleece—and we are right on the money . . . Bonny's EPD is in the top 5% to 25% in 7 out of 9 fleece characteristics!

LOOK at her latest EPD Report for 2023 (side bar)!
Remember THIS GAL IS 15 YEARS OLD!
What do all those 2023 EPD values mean for Vanora's cria?
Top 14% in the nation! Avg Fiber Diameter (AFD) could decrease by -1.288, really good!
Standard Deviation of AFD will decrease by -0.221, good! 28% in the nation!
Top 12% in the nation! Spin Fineness (SF) could decrease by -1.408, excellent!
Top 13% in the nation! % of Fibers > 30 micron could decrease by -5.379, amazing!
Top 16% in the nation! Mean Curve (MC) of fiber could increase by 2.673, super!
% Medullation (M) could decrease by -.995, (the full impact of medullation in fleece remains a question at this point in time.)
Top 17% in the nation! Mean Staple Length (MSL) could increase by 1.359
Top 1% in the nation! Fleece Weight (FW) could increase by 1.193, INCREDIBLE!

What the EPD says is that Vanora is an superb animal with really excellent fleece traits—and we see that she passes these traits to her cria.

Vanora took the BLUE in her age group for the 2010 AOBA National Spin-Off. Her 2 year histogram shows why: 17.2 3.5 20.7 CF 100%, Curve 47. Her 3rd year clip was 9.25 lbs. of 20 micron blanket! Fine micron with a heavy shear weight adds up to density. Sometimes I have secretly wished she were a stud, but she produced her handsome son Locksley—a big, hulky, strutting stud you should consider using!

Awards

2010 AOBA National Spin-off, 1st out of 14, juvenile class
Judge Judy Keske remarked "great silky feel, nice definition and amplitude, fine finger bundles."
2010 Great Western Spin-off, 4th of 5 entries, judge's comments: "Beautiful! very soft, strong crimp and staple character, very dense, lovely yarn with lots of loft, very bright, very soft!"
Northwest Alpaca Showcase White Juvenile Females April 2009
6th place in class of 9 in this age group
(we were really very pleased considering the big competition!)

Financing Terms

We realize everyone's situation is different and we are willing to draw up terms agreeable to both parties. Don't hesitate to ask for a plan that works for you.

Offspring

BRED AGAIN TO TB ANTONIO!

Stirling Ridge KAELEIGH
ARI# 36172436   D.O.B. 6/17/2020 (5 yrs)
Huacaya, Open (Female)| White, Proven

Sire: Grazing Hills BRADFORD
Dam: Diomedes' VANORA of Stirling Ridge

Kaeleigh had her first cria in June 23, needing no assistance. It amazes me how the good Lord gave maternal instincts. She is a REALLY good momma and ...

Stirling Ridge Alpacas - Moscow, ID

Price:

$4,000

Mr. STUDLY!

STIRLING RIDGE LOCKSLEY
ARI# 36172474   D.O.B. 8/11/2021 (4 yrs)
Huacaya, Jr. Herdsire (Male)| White, 5/8 Peruvian, 1/4 Bolivian, 1/8 Chilean, Unproven

Sire: Grazing Hills BRADFORD
Dam: Diomedes' VANORA of Stirling Ridge

Here's an up and coming herdsire! He's a BIG boy. I mean HUGE. Beautifully conformed, beautiful fleece and lots of it! He's really shaping up nicely. ...

Stirling Ridge Alpacas - Moscow, ID

Price:

$2,500

MR. HANDSOME!

Stud Fee:

$400

98mm MSL! 20.9 micron 7yr!

Stirling Ridge VALORIE
ARI# 35355960   D.O.B. 7/27/2016 (9 yrs)
Huacaya, Female| Beige, 3/4 Peruvian, 1/4 Bolivian, Proven

Sire: GRAZING HILLS EPHRAIM
Dam: Diomedes' VANORA of Stirling Ridge

She is bred and confirmed pregnant to Golden Pines Antonio, a true black. Antonio has given us two cria, a light brown & a beige, out of WHITE mamas. ...

Stirling Ridge Alpacas - Moscow, ID

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