We bred one of our favorite females, the lovely "Lilac Rose"- a beautiful, light silver grey, with an endearing personality, to WI the Admiral, who we feel was a stellar stud that resided at Windy Hill at the time. He is not only one of the densest alpaca we have seen but has beautiful super shiny locks and a face that is too darn cute. All of that and some amazing genetics behind him. Given he is a Goldstar son we can not tell you how excited we were to land this color of a female by him. When Lilac gave birth to Lanai she started licking her all over, it was such a special birth to witness.
2020 an odd year to say the last, so we kind of went with a name imagining ourselves having a nice "wine on the lanai" overlooking the ocean and alpacas peacefully grazing. She will likely lose her wine color fleece at shearing and be mostly silver grey which is more than ok by us.
We feel fortunate to have been able to send her off to some shows for 2021 and she received four, 1st place ribbons. She had comments from the judge how she had more density than anticipated and very respectable luster!
She gave birth to a girl by the guy we just can't get enough of, GLR Armani. This female looks bay black but may possibly end up in that modern grey. Will see what time tells. Nice density and lock and a beautiful true to type suri head.
Lanai made a great first-time mom while maintaining her own ideal weight etc. We recently bred her to Gracie's Slick to the Max and will see if that pairing took.