Fiber/Scientific Data
| 2019-05-10 | 16.21 AFD, 3.45 SD, 21.3 CV, 100 CF |
| 2018-04-30 | 16.5 AFD, 3.7 SD, 22.0 CV, 100 CF |
Mo Money/EL/Arch/PP Elizabeth cross!
CCNF Snow King
Huacaya, Herdsire (Male), Unproven | White
ARI# 35491217, D.O.B. 7/29/2017,
Sire: MFI's & KVR's Mint Mo Money ARI#
32827262 White We purchased MFI's & KVR's Mint Mo Money -- together with our friends Wayne and Susan Robinson of Emelise Alpacas -- at the 2014 Breeders Choice sale at Magical Farms. Though in all honesty we hadn't gone to that final ever Breeders Choice thinking that we would be bidding on a male alpaca, Mo's fleece was so compelling to us that we figured we'd take a chance. There is always some risk in buying an alpaca that is not yet mature. We liken it to sports teams drafting 18 year old kids: while it is possible to project their possible upside based upon some markers that we've learned to recognize, there is *never* a guarantee that the animal in question will ultimately fulfill its potential. If it was too easy, it really wouldn't be any fun, right?
Now, having gone through the 2015 spring show season though, it's safe to say that we all (CCNF and Emelise) feel a bit like the cats that ate the canary. Though perhaps a touch high in his hind end at the time he first arrived here, Mo came home to CCNF last fall and after six months or so of eating good Vermont hay and marching up and down the mountainside here on Mt. Ascutney, he really filled out into a stunning young male. Guess what? The fleece held up too.
The grandson of the legendary Majestic Peruvian Jeremiah, we will be able to cross Mo in with the vast majority of our white/light herd (our Precocious daughters being an obvious exception). Amongst other things, his genetics will represent the first major infusion of El Niño (Caligula and Sunipani) and Titan blood into our breeding program, something which we are pretty excited about!
Though Mo was a bit of a, ahem, late bloomer with his breeding technique, several members of of his first generation of crias are now slated to play very important roles in our breeding program (not the least of which is his son CCNF Snow King, a full-fledged Herdsire) going forward.
Dam: CCNF Elizabeth ARI#
32817508 White Daughter of the mighty Snowmass Elite Legend and our Futurity Champion Archangel daughter, CCNF Eliza.
Description
It actually occurred to us multiple times as we were campaigning CCNF Snow King in the spring of 2019 on the halter show circuit, that the very fleece traits that make him so attractive to us as a Herdsire, were the same ones causing him by the month of March to look like a red-hot mess. In short: a dense, fine, long-stapled fleece, which when combined with several days on a trailer and a touch of heating vent at the show facility…and voila! Even after putting him under show fans set to high for three days before going into the ring, the eye didn’t always agree with what the hand was feeling this spring, so huge credit to the judges for understanding what it was that was in front of them. The simple fact though is that no show result would have changed his status on his birth farm, even if he had gotten the gate and made the walk of shame.
For our part, we had projected this guy to be a Herdsire since before his 1st birthday. Snow King is the son of arguably our best Elite Legend daughter ever, CCNF Elizabeth, herself the maternal granddaughter of her name-sake, the powerful ’93 import PPeruvian Elizabeth, who joined our program in ’02 and lived out her days here with us. Combine those powerful genetics with Archangel, then add Elite Legend, producing young Elizabeth and then breed *her* to MFI’s & KVR’s Mint Mo Money, our Futurity Champion and JC winner, and Snow King was the excellent result!
While there is no question that Snow King’s value to us specifically is elevated some by his pedigree and it’s lack of relative closeness to several of our white/light female lines, it is ultimately his fleece traits that put him over the top. Dense, fine, and bright? Yes, please: we’d *always* like more of that!
Update, summer of 2022: Snow King has not only proven that he is more that capable of siring quality offspring (several of whom were part of our BoTY-winning show team at the '22 Futurity) but he has continued to age with grace and was just awarded not just the Reserve White Male Championship at the 2022 AOA National Fleece Show but was also chosen as the the Judges' Choice Huacaya Male, while being just shy of his 5th birthday. In essence, he has turned into everything we could have hoped for.
Awards
2nd Place - 2018 Northeast Alpaca Expo
2nd Place - 2018 North American Alpaca Show
2nd Place - 2018 Futurity
1st Place - 2018 AOA National Fleece Show
2nd Place - 2018 PAOBA Fleece Showcase
Huacaya Best Brightness - 2018 PAOBA Fleece Showcase
2nd Place - 2018 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular
Reserve Champion White Male Huacaya - 2018 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular
2nd Place - 2018 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza
Reserve Champion White Male Huacaya - 2018 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza
1st Place - 2018 Showtacular Fleece Show
Reserve Champion White Huacaya - 2018 Showtacular Fleece Show
Huacaya Best Brightness - 2018 Showtacular Fleece Show
Judge's Choice Huacaya - 2018 Showtacular Fleece Show
2nd Place - 2019 AOA National Alpaca Show
Reserve Champion White Huacaya Male - 2019 AOA National Alpaca Show
1st Place - 2019 Futurity
1st Place - 2022 AOA National Fleece Show
Reserve Champion White Huacaya Male - 2022 AOA National Fleece Show
Judges' Choice Huacaya Male - 2022 AOA National Fleece Show