The 3 lowest micron females on our farm are out of Ren Farms' Joe Louis! Not only that, but at the age of 7 years, he is still holding a 21.5 micron baby grade fleece! His offspring routinely have micron in the 16's-18's, and SD's in the 2's-3's. Many whites can't match that!
As a full Peruvian herdsire, Joe is throwing top quality black, fawn & white crias! He is one of those rare dark sires that you can safely take to white girls to try for color, without fearing for loss of quality if the resulting cria is white!
Joe is the complete package! "Best handle in the class, best fineness in the class, best density in the class...he has that high frequency crimp that is usually associated with fineness, and that I just don't want to let go of," said Judge Mary Reed in awarding Joe Louis the first place ribbon and Reserve color championship at the 2008 Huron Spring Alpaca Show. We heard similar reviews about this boy throughout his show career.
Joe has amazing fineness, density and terrific crimp with an incredible 11 crimps/inch frequency. He has a very uniformly consistent & extremely soft handle. His conformation is flawless, with large-sized bone and perfect proportion.
Joe's traits are inherited from his blue-ribbon winning dark brown dam, Anais, who still held a 23 micron (baby grade) at age 11. A very impressive 6 out of 8 of Anais's offspring have won Championships, demonstrating her pre-potency!
Joe is passing that long held low micron gene on to his offspring, who are consistently having a dramatic fineness of fleece! Further, he is also passing on his large-boned perfect conformation.
A couple of his offspring's yearling micron stats:
Med Fawn offspring: AFD 16.6 SD 3.1 CV 18.7 %>30 0.3
Black offspring: AFD 17.9 SD 2.7 CV 20.9 %>30 0.8
[6th] 6th place, 2008 Alpacafest, halter class - w/ wet fleece!
[5th] 5th place, 2008 Western Ohio Triple Crown, halter class - Ruby Division - w/ wet fleece!
[5th] 5th place, 2008 Western Ohio Triple Crown, halter class - Sapphire Division - w/ wet fleece!
[5th] 5th place, 2008 Indiana Heartland Classic, halter class
[4th] 4th place, 2008 National Champions' Alpaca Show, 2 oz. fiber sample class
[4th] 4th place, 2008 Western Ohio Triple Crown, walking fleece class
[3rd] 3rd place, 2009 National Champions' Alpaca Show, walking fleece class
[3rd] 3rd place, 2008 Buckeye Show, halter class
[3rd] 3rd place, 2009 Buckeye Show, halter class
[2nd] 2nd place, 2008 Huron Spring Alapca Show, walking fiber class
[2nd] 2nd place, 2008 Indiana Alpaca Invitational, halter class
[2nd] 2nd place, 2008 Carolina Alpaca Celebration, halter class
[2nd] 2nd place, 2009 National Champions' Alpaca Show, halter class
[2nd] 2nd place, 2008 National Champions' Alpaca Show, halter class
[2nd] 2nd place, 2009 MOPACA Show, fleece class
[1st] 1st place, 2009 National Champions' Alpaca Show, Produce of Dam
[1st] 1st place, 2008 National Champions' Alpaca Show, walking fleece class
[1st] 1st place, 2008 Huron Spring Alapca Show, halter class
[1st] 1st place, 2008 Southern Select Show, halter class
[RC] Reserve Color Champion, 2008 Huron Spring Alpaca Show