2010 Crias
Cory - about 4 months old
Finny - about a month old
Ayla Fall 2010
Cloudy with his best friend Teressa
Painted Spring's
Corado
(d.o.b. 6/19/10)
Male
Sire: Principe
Dorato
Dam: Eternity
Cory is a sweet boy -
smaller in size, like his Dam and with the same amazingly fine fleece AFD
17.5/ SD 3.5 / CV 20.0 /CF 99.9 - WOW!
He's proven himself as a
great obstacle boy - in September 2011 at the 4H show he and his handler took
Grand Champion. Way to go Cory!
Update Fall 2013: Cory went to live in Southern York Co with a group of boys. We loved Cory's fiber so much that we bred him once before he left to our true black girl Fiona. We won't see the results of that until fall 2014, but we are certainly anxious!
Painted Spring's
Finnegan
(d.o.b. 6/20/10)
Male
Sire: Lancaster's
Highland Chieftan
Dam: Lili
Finnegan is growing fast
and his fleece is probably one of the finest we've ever had on our farm.
At shearing (5/11) his fiber stats were AFD 18.1/ SD 3.1 / CV 17.2 /CF
99.7. Not complaining about that!
Update 6/14: Finnegan spent most of 2013 at the Morningstar Marketplace enjoying the bountiful grass in the solar field. He was back with us for shearing and he's turned out to be a nice solid young man with great fleece.
Painted Spring's
Ayla
(d.o.b. 9/30/10)
Female
Sire: Painted
Spring's Eldorado
Dam: Abby
We were excited when our
first cria of the fall was a girl. The first for us out of Elde - and what
a dark color for a white sire. Ayla is tall and lean like her dam with
dense fleece qualities like her mother. We are very pleased with the
results of the pairing. Ayla was sold to Sue and Harry Graver.
Painted Spring's
St. Cloud
(d.o.b. 10/9/10)
Male
Sire: El
Nino's Accoyo Iago
Dam: Aztec
Sugar & Spice
Cloudy got his start
about an hour before our annual open house began. It was great for the
visitors to get to see a brand new baby that was just born, but since his mom
was Sugar and she's none too fond of the humans - especially after she has a
baby, we weren't able to interact with him too much that day. For some
reason, he didn't start nursing like we had hoped, so he became a bottle baby -
at least for a few days. Once he got the hang of it, he was fine.
His name actually came from how he nursed - he was so tall that he'd get down on
his knees and it looked like he was praying. So with his blinding white
color, we called him Saint Cloud. He's turned out to be the friendliest
alpaca we've ever had on the farm and he's one of my personal favorites.
Doesn't hurt that his fleece is AMAZING! Sadly we lost our beloved Cloudy in the fall of 2012. He will always be a farm favorite and missed immensely.
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