She will be bred to Golden Pines Antonio, a true black. Antonio has given us two cria, a light brown & a beige, out of WHITE mamas. We're hoping for dark!
Valorie was bred to Flying Dutchman Alpacas Deacon Grey Silver BLADE (MSG) for a September 2023 cria. And on 9/14/2023 she presented us with a handsome bay black male cria with true black points (Blade's Blacksmythe). He's spunky and we think with his parentage and color he will make one fine future herdsire!
Valorie has our best alpaca, Vanora, as her mama and the beautiful bay black Grazing Hills Ephraim as her sire. She was bred to gorgeous Grazing Hills Hezekiah and had her first cria June 2020. Now we've got those Running Late genetics on the farm, producing a gorgeous light fawn female, Joeleigh. Valorie is a very good mama, super laid back and calm. In 2022, she gave us JAXXON, one good-lookin' white male with gorgeous fleece.
Valorie is just a doll: a calm, sweet little beauty with absolutely crimpy, GORGEOUS apricot fleece and LOTS of it. Her mom, Vanora, has sheared 9 LBS. of 19 micron fleece for us in the past and Ephraim sheared a 4 LB. blanket at 10 months, so we expected that Valorie would have a very fine, but heavy-weight fleece. And she hasn't proved us wrong!
She shears one of the heaviest fleeces on the farm, while being a very fine fleece.
In fact,
she has ONE OF THE HEAVIEST FLEECES IN THE NATION! 16 micron at 3 years! 17 micron at 4 years! Amazing! You don't usually see the combination of a fine micron (top 8% in the nation) with a heavy fleece weight (top 1%)! Now at 7 years, she's in the top 7% for micron and in the top 1% for fleece weight!! INCREDIBLE GIRL!
2023 EPD results: TOP 7% AFD , value - 1.652, her cria will likely have a finer fleece
Ranked 38% for SDAFD, value - 0.153, her cria will likely have a more uniform fiber diameter
TOP 9% SF, value - 1.558, her cria will likely have a lower spin fineness
Ranked 28% for %F>30, value - 3.776, her cria will likely have a lower % of fibers greater than 30 micron
Ranked 65% for MC, value - 0.054, her cria will likely have a lesser frequency crimp than average
SDMC, value +.348, assesses the uniformity of curvature
Ranked 60% for %M, value -0.088, her cria will likely have lless % fiber medullation
However, "the full impact of medullation remains a question at this point in time" (quote from Yocom-McColl Fiber Labs).
TOP 3.6% MSL, value 3.372, her cria will likely have a longer staple length
TOP 0.35% FW, value 1.157, her cria will likely have a more heavy fleece weight.
In this characteristic she ranked 192 out of 54,995 animals in the EPD results! BW, value 0.143 her cria will likely be a bit heavier in birth weight
