Sterling is an awesome animal. Everywhere he is taken, people say "what a beautiful animal!" His phenotype is absolutely perfect - his genotype-PROVEN- same high caliper. Sterling produces OUTSTANDING CRIMP and bundling density, unbelievable for a grey! His leg coverage is completely unrivaled for any color class. He gets his wonderful fleece ( 21.7 micron in 2005!) from a combination of the Accoyo sire (Accoyo Inca Danseur out of Accoyo import PPPeruvian Cordero), and the beautiful champion dam, Dona Savia. Dona was halter and fleece champion in yearling females, medium silver grey at AOBA Nationals 1998 (shown by Libby Forstner of Magical Farms). Sterling had an incredible staple length of 6 inches on his yearling fleece. He has a butter soft hand with wonderful density and no guard hair!! You have to put your hands on him to believe it! His crimp is ultra-fine, still showing a lovely character. 2nd MAPACA 2008 - class of 9 - 3yr & older!
You may find another grey with a more pronounce crimp, but you will never find a better all-around package in grey than Sterling. His fineness is superior with micron's far below other greys his age, which tells us he retains a soft fleece and this is what we need to breed for (along with the amount of fleece produced - and Sterling produced a 10 lb prime blanket in 2005!). Anyone can get a soft 2 year old, but by the age of 3, most are becoming coarse -- not Sterling -- he is still butter soft at age 5.