Fiber/Scientific Data
| 2018 | 20.45/ 4.21/ 20.57/ CF 97.2% |
| 2017 | 19.4/ 4.1/ 21.3/ CF 98.3% |
RR Mingus - Solid Grey
Huacaya, Male, Unproven | Dark Rose Grey
ARI# 35117551, D.O.B. 9/17/2016,
Sire: RR LEGATO GRIGIO - SOLD TO CASCADE ROSE ALPACAS ARI#
31620031 Dark Silver Grey Currently breeding in WA state...
Legato Grigio is the assimilation of the 2 most important lines that we wanted to bring to our grey breeding program. He comes by his elite fleece not unexpectedly.
Dad is RR Gun's A'Blazin' who has now shown by both histograms, and follicle skin testing that he is consistantly producing fineness, density and uniformity and was a 15 time banner winner.
Mom, Snowmass Golden Dreams, has been one of our best producers. We have amassed countless banners from her offspring, among whom is our pre=potent herdsire Snowmass Midnight Sun.
LG has demonstrated his pepotency repeatedly in his production. AS we had hoped, he is able to transmit solid grey as a dominant, in many shades. His progeny, as tested by histograms and biopsies (to date) attest to his prepotency...take a minute to check the stats on his offspring. There is but one to date that is not still in our herd...we have retained them all.
His non grey production has championed in solid colors, fawn and black in particular.
His pattern appears to be a spotting, not tuxedo , pattern and we have used him on solid colors with excellent success.
We have not bred him to tuxedo patterns. He has not produced any blue eyed whites.
The numbers don"t lie:
Histograms:
2012 16.0/ 3.9/ 23/ CF 100%/ length 90mm
2013 18.3/ 4.1/ 23/ CF99%/ length 105mm
2014 17.3/ 3.85/ 22.24/ CF 100 length 90.0
2015: 19.3/ 4.3/ 22.3/ CF 97.3 length 90mm
Biopsy (Alpaca Consulting/ Ian Watt):
Density 64.6/mm2
S/P ratio 11.8:1
In-skin mean primary fiber diameter: 25.9 SD 2.8
In-skin mean secondary fibre diameter: 20.6 SD 2.8
Comments:
Excellent density well supported by an above average S:P ratio and very uniform fiber populations, among the best recorded for this color to date.
There is simply no way that we would be offering Legato Grigio, if we didn't have sons Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie now standing on our stud row...
Dam: RR MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS-Grey Maker! ARI#
35278610 Medium Brown Mary Queen of Scots is full sister to RR Arturo and RR Tosca and it's unmistakable if you look at her fleece which is exceptionally dense, fine and uniform across an expansive blanket. We opted to breed her at 14 months, because her frame and weight have been filling out very early and she was more than ready. We expect that like mom, she will be a standout foundation female.
We couldn't be happier with the result...Mingus is a solid grey with outstanding fiber.
She was re-bred to RR Dizzy Gillespie and produced a strawberry roan cria, Aphrodite..
Dizzy Gillespie has established his niche on our herdsire row and is quite simply, in our opinion, the best grey stud that we have produced. We repeated this breeding and were pleased that it once again produced a strawberry roan female who unfortunately did not survive. Mary QoS will be re-bred to Dizzy in the hope that we could repeat his last two outstanding results from this pairing.
Description
NO RISK JUNIOR HERDSIRE: Pay $500 and should you decide to use him as a herdsire down the road, you will pay $1000 for his ARI papers prior to breeding
Legato Grigio pulled dark rose grey out of RR Mary Queen of Scots, a full sister to Arturo, our herdsire "par excellence". If there is any doubt, check out the fleece picture and analytics.
He has a stunning, very bright mahogany rose grey fleece, which carries excellent uniformity over an expansive blanket.
Mingus is a marriage of our 2 most pre-potent lines.
H is what is referred to as a "bay roan" and in a darker almost shade ( modern dark rose grey in the show ring)and he has an excellent hand.
He is one a large number of roans that we have been breeding for in our herd with a dominant pattern of inheritance through three generations. The genomics are are continuing to be evaluated in the grey color genetics study being currently done by Kylie Munyard PhD and Samantha Brooks PhD.
The full genomic sequence is being done on the Mingus and 17 of his relatives...and more to come. None of the roans have anything other than complete color uniformity in the blanket (no spots). We believe that genomic markers will result in the breeder using him to have the earliest use of genomics to develop a breeding strategy and will mirror the experience of roan horse breeders.
This is also a line that has been defined by analytics, not just histograms, but skin biopsy and follicle testing.
He is ideally suited to a breeder with solid color females looking to take their genetics to grey. We have had excellent results breeding the Roan dominant allele to brown and fawn. Mingus should produce roan from black as well.
As for breeding to roan...RnRn homozygotes are not lethal in horses, and the dominant RnRn ought to transmit the roan gene to ALL it's offspring. Breeding to another roan should result not only in 100% roan, but 50% double dominant RnRn.
Awards
2018 California Classic walking fleece 1/4, judge Cheryl Gehly