Romeo is producing 75% female crias, and 75% colored crias.
Fine, uniform fleece that maintains its baby-soft handle as the alpaca matures: this is a quality we strive for at Genesis Alpacas. Romeo’s dreamy fleece features medium amplitude and medium frequency crimp. His fleece architecture only improves with age, exhibiting popcorn bundling.
A medium frame male, Romeo exhibits pleasing proportions and a beautiful face with large dark eyes and excellent depth of jaw. With robust good health and strong libido, Romeo showed a keen interest in breeding as early as 14 months of age. He is an efficient breeder, settling maidens in one breeding.
Romeo inherits excellent immune competence and reproductive genes from his dam. Her crias' IgGs are near 3000, and they gain nearly a pound a day on her plentiful milk. At 16 years of age, Romeo's dam looks youthful, conceives on a single breeding and still produces a cria every year.
Fineness and uniformity of micron are locked in from both sides of Romeo's heritage, and we believe you will see an improvement in the handle of your cria’s fleeces. Romeo's dam's well-nourished, 9-year fleece tested out at 18.9 microns and an sd of 4.5. Romeo's sire's fleece brought home a blue ribbon from the AOBA Nationals, and boasted a first year histogram of 18 microns, with an unbelievable standard deviation of 2.9 and cv of 16.1!
Romeo's crias display vigor and eye-catching presence, and their dense, bundled fleece is bright, crimpy and colorful! Dark pigment (black skin, gums and toenails) indicates Romeo is carrying strong color genes from his cinnamon-colored dam.