Foothill's Diamond
SuriOpen (Female)White
AOA# 30368378DOB: 8/31/200519 yrs
We are happy to welcome Diamond to our white fiber breeding program. She is an awesome mom, with a ton of milk, a nice mellow alpaca, and has great fiber stats. Sire is Tagi (out of Inca). We are very pleased with her 2011 cria, Samson out of Bodegas (Accoyo Locke). His AFD is unreal at 16.3!
Diamond's fiber is still very soft. Her 2011 fiber is back from the mill. We had it blended with 2 cria fleeces and some merino wool. Really nice yarn...it's gone!
Diamond had a female cria (out of Aspan) in August 2013. She will be re-bred to our new herd sire Bodegas-the offspring of this breeding should be loaded with extremely fine fleece (see Samson).
We are so excited to have Bodegas here standing stud. His skin biopsy from Norman Evans is excellent. He was tested at 5-1/2 years old:
Density: 68.25
Glands: 4 of 4
S/P Ratio: 8.6/8.9 to 1
Secondary Medullation: 80%
Secondary Fiber Average Micron: 18.5
Primary Average: 27.3
Micron Variation: 8.8
"This male's density and fineness with very few primary fibers greater than 30 microns rates him in the top 2 percent of Suri males that I have evaluated...You certainly have a keeper in Bodegas." -Norm Evans, DVM