Fiber/Scientific Data
| 2011 | Micron Count: 26.4/ 5.1/ 19.1/ CF 82.3% |
| 2010 | Micron Count: 24.0/ 4.6/ 19.0/ CF 91.6% |
| 2009 | Micron Count: 23.9/5.1/21.5/ CF 88.4%/ curv 45 |
| 2008 | Micron Count: 24.4/ 4.9/ 20.1/ CF 88.3 |
| 2007 | Micron Count: 23.5/ 4.7/ 20.0/ CF 91% curv 40 |
| 2006 | Micron Count: 21.9/ 5.1/ 23.1/ 6.0%/ curv 44.8 |
| 2005 | Micron Count: 19.4 4.2/ 21.5/ 2.8%/ curv 50.7 |
| 2003 | Micron Count: 19.3 4.1 21.4 2.2% |
Retired
SNOWMASS GOLD STARZ
Huacaya, Female, Proven | Dark Fawn
ARI# 841156, D.O.B. 10/6/2002, Full Peruvian
Sire: Snowmass Legacy Gold ARI#
807333 Medium Fawn Legacy Gold remains the prototype Herdsire in our eyes. Even better is the fact that he is capable of replicating himself with relative ease. He has won major awards at every level and at every stage of his development including back to back Breed and Color Championships at the 1999 & 2000 Futurities in Oklahoma City, the only alpaca to have ever done that. His cria have likewise excelled on the show circuit winning Championships throughout the color spectrum starting way back in 2003 and as recently as the 2011. Not bad. LG is co owned with our friends at Tripping Gnome Farm Alpacas.
Dam: Snowmass Starlight ARI#
815631 White Peruvian - Sired by Peruvan Snowmaster (ex Ppperuvian Lilly), the noted sire of Snowmass Messiah and Snowmass Incaaccoyo Star. Dam is Snowmass Starlit Snow (P Hemingway x Ppperuvian Chastity).
Description
The grand dam of our fawn breeding program retired after her final and aptly named cria RR Magnum Opus.
Here are lines that represent Snowmaster and 4P Legacy. Starz has produced consistanly produced superfine, less tha 17 micron, cria. She is fine, dense, uniform with outstanding definition in her fiber at age 7, and put into a conformationally perfect package. Her sire, Legacy Gold, sold for $500K at the Snowmass 2006 auction and when we came across her as lot #18 in 2007, we knew that we had to have her.
Her 2007 cria, out of Snowmass Royal Rose, i.e. Snowmass RRoyal Stars, is on our herdsire row and has been tested by Ian Watt:
His follicle density of 79.51 and S/P of 13.0/1 place him as the 4th densest alpaca they've tested in the US, 5th in the world.
Of course, that's only a small part of the biopsy data, histogram and expert show ring evaluation against the best that we feel, have placed him in the superstar category. See his listing for more detail on acquiring these superlative genetics.
Her 2008 breeding to our own Guns n Roses gave us a gorgeous superdense, super bright daughter, RR Rose Fiona. This breeding was repeated for 2009 to produce RR Rose La Reina. Like her older siblings, La Reina has it all...the density, length, definition and of course the eye popping brightness and lush hand.
It was only after the arrival and appreciation of how much like her older sister she was that we reluctantly decided to bring RR Rose Fiona, undoubtedly one of our best progeny, to the 2010 Futurity Auction.
This is a home run mom, who we feel will be pivotal in our breeding program.
Awards
TxOLAN, 2010 First place, Product of Dam
MOPACA, 2010 First place, Product of Dam
Futurity, 2004 Second (of 10)
A.W.E., 2004 Second (of 6)