18.9 AFD at 4 years, 2x Blue Winner
Skyline's Guinness
Huacaya, Herdsire (Male), Proven | Dark Silver Grey
ARI# 30852754, D.O.B. 7/24/2006, 3/4 Peruvian, 1/4 Chilean
Sire: Snowmass Nova's Nuance ARI#
840847 Bay Black
Nuance is an "Incredible Incan Black Male from a Royal Line of Elite Fibered Alpacas in Color" from the Snowmass breeding program. Incan Magic whose dam remains at an amazing 16 microns at 9 years of age is his grand dam. Nuance’s Dam, Incan Surprise, has exhibited the same fiber attributes. His sire, Nova, has been a multiple champion and is an excellent producer. Nuance’s pedigree of predicable fiber characteristics and award winning genetics are what we have been striving for in our breeding program for many years. We were proud to be able to breed him to a number of our award winning black and gray females in 2005.
His offspring are all we hoped for; strong and straight with considerable presence covered with the top quality black fleece we are working diligently to produce.
Proudly co-owned with Skyline Alpacas.
Dam: My Peruvian Axial ARI#
833403 True Black Axial is a beautiful True Black full Peruvian dam with a gentle disposition who is an outstanding producer of ribbon winning alpacas. During the summer of 2004 Axial delivered her 1st cria, a full Peruvian Dark Brown/Bay Black male and son of Black Peruvian Royal Forest. Hot Lava finished off his show career with 5 ribbons, including a 2nd place at 2005 Nationals. For her 2005 cria, Axial was bred to Patagonia’s Sinopsis Nocturna, one of Patagonia’s most consistent quality herdsires. Axial delivered the most spectacular True Black cria, Black Velvet--a perfect description of his fleece. We were anxious for the upcoming show season and we weren’t disappointed when he placed in numerous shows. At the end of the season, he received a blue ribbon at AOBA 2006 Nationals! In 2006, Axial did it again--another spectacular male, this time in Dark Silver Grey! Guinness also had a fabulous show career--two blues, at AWE and AOBA 2007 Nationals, and a 2nd at Alpacapalooza.
In 2007 Axial started giving us girls! First came Anna, a striking Med. Fawn gal, and in 2008 she gave us our first Phoenix daughter, a True Black. Milana is everything we could have hoped for and led our show string the next season, winning 3 ribbons. We liked Milana so well; we decided to repeat that breeding for another Full Peruvian cria. Axial gave us a second Phoenix girl, this time in Fawn! Then in 2010, Axial gave us another Phoenix gal, this time in brown. She is on our 2011 show string and we can't wait to see how she does!
We have placed Axial on the sales list with much sadness, as she is one of our best producers. With Milana and Axial’s two other daughters, we feel we now have equally nice females; given our need to reduce numbers have decided to offer Axial for sale. For 2011 we decided to try a breeding with Silver Elation. Silver Elation has done a superb job for us and we are sure a mating with Axial will produce an outstanding cria for you.
You can't go wrong with a purchase of Axial. She has just produced outstanding cria for us year after year.
Description
Skyline’s Guinness is, just simply put, one of my favorite crias from the 2006 crop. He has a compact correct conformation, with a beautiful head and striking eyes. He is a 2x Blue Ribbon winner as his fleece is outstanding --dense, bright, and fine with a nice high frequency crimp. His May 2007 histogram was 15.7 AFD, 3.1 SD, 19.8 CV and 0.4 %>30u. Plus, Guinness has maintained his fineness over the years acheiving a 2010 histogram of 18.9 AFD, 4.3 SD, 22.9 CV and 1.8 %>30u. Guinness' outstanding fleece impressed the judges as well. In 2007 Guinness has shown in both Dark Silver Grey, placing 2nd at Alpacapalooza, and in Indefinite Dark winning a 1st at Western Alpaca Extravaganza, and a 5th at The Futurity and finishing his Juvenile season with a Blue Ribbon at AOBA Nationals.
Guinness' show career was no surprise to us given his impressive genetics. Both his parents have produced many ribbon winning cria. His Dam, My Peruvian Axial, is a Full Peruvian Black Dam sired by 4Peruvian Matador, and his Sire is our outstanding Bay Black Nova son, Snowmass Nova’s Nuance. Guinness' ability to hold fineness at 4 years of age is just one indicator of these quality genetics. We expect he will pass this trait on to his offspring as well.
His first cria arrived in 2009, and she is a real beauty, Med. Brown with a white face and tuxedo front, out of a white dam. Mocha-Latte has a dense, fine fleece that has brightness as well. We expect Guinness will continue to throw cria of this quality for you. If your breeding for Black and Grey, you just can't go wrong with this young herdsire.
Awards
2007 Alpacapalooza
2007 Alpaca Western Extravaganza
2007 The Futurity
2007 AOBA Nationals