Despite her age, we are hoping to breed Vanora to our new herdsire, true black Antonio in the spring of 2025 to see if she produces color!
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!
