Animal Details

June 2014

Outstanding fleece and phenotype.

KCAF RRoyal Tap Shoes

Alpaca, Huacaya, Male | Bay Black

DOB: 9/26/2013 (11 yrs)

Sire: Snowmass RRoyal Fox

<--ari-->Medium Silver Grey<--color-->Drive through breeding $1000 (50% off) until Oct. 2015. Fox does many amazing things and his specialty is lingering, overall uniformity. He's a gray that fines down and crimps up primaries to resemble secondaries. There is not much to skirt out of his and his progeny's crimpy, fine, supple fleeces. Certified Sorted graded Fox's champion third fleece as extremely fine and uniform across all fibers and for WORSTED applications. NOTE: EPDs are far off base for some alpacas...rely on each alpaca's stats!!! 2015 EPD 1% Club for % of medullated fibers. In the upper 5% for AFD! (And we have not yet submitted his data.) 2014 EPDs: Fox is in the upper % for several traits in ARI EPDs (as of April 2014). We have not yet submitted his data to the EPD program. AFD: -1.434 0.157 800 of 14637 SDAFD: -0.087 0.157 6382 of 14637 SF : -1.376 0.16 999 of 14637 %F>30: -4.556 0.161 1580 of 14637 MC: 3.175 0.157 972 of 14637 SDMC: 1.977 0.162 310 of 14637 %M: -3.38 0.071 633 of 14637 FOX'S CRIAS CONSISTENTLY EXHIBIT REFINEMENT IN PHENOTYPE, DENSITY, OVERALL UNIFORMITY, LINGERING FINENESS, HIGHER FREQUENCY CRIMP, Fine and Crimpy PRIMARIES, FAR LESS GUARD HAIR, LONGER STAPLE, VIVID COLOR, EXTENSION INTO EXTREMITIES, INTELLIGENCE AND EVEN TEMPERAMENTS WITH SOLID CORRECT FRAMES, CORRECT PROPORTIONS (legs, backs and necks not too short or too long), FLUID MOVEMENT AND OVERALL HEALTH. Offspring colors as of July 2015: 50% grays (14 F / 5 M) 35% true blacks (6 F / 9 M) 15% dark fawn, brown and maroon! No W, LF or MF crias. -Gray daughter, Kristiana (Sold to Stellar Alpacas), is in the EPD 1% club and has several traits in the top 10%...and ribbons too! -Gray son produced at Irish Meadows Alpacas - 1st @, Futurity. -Black daughter produced at Irish Meadow has a multiple award winning offspring. -Gray dtr. Rayna (Sold to Dusk Till Dawn Alpacas) - 1st @ Alpacapalooza 2012; RC/2nd GMAF 2013. -Gray dtr. Si<--description-->

Dam: KCAF Constantino's Buttercup

2nd flc behind her JC brother

KCAF Constantino's Buttercup

HuacayaBred (Female)Medium Fawn

AOA# 31612227DOB: 10/17/200915 yrs

2018 EPDs: Top 5-25% for four traits! 2015 cria: TB Male, similar to Tap Shoes, but with less white markings. 2014 cria: Tap Shoes, her first cria (by Fox), gorgeous black blanket.fine and bright with high definition crimp. AFCNA graded Buttercup's 2011 tui fleece as royal baby. Her dam and maternal granddam produce outstanding crias with Constantino and our Tino daughters are producing dynamite crias with Snowmass RRoyal Fox! Champion sired and will be champion bred to our 2010 AOBA Grey Composite Champion, Snowmass RRoyal Fox! The cria will have the famous bloodlines of Snowmass Royal Bronze, Snowmass Casanova, P. Bueno, 4P Black Magic, CP Black Hawk, P. Andrajo and P. Misty Maiden. Buttercup's full siblings are: our 2009 Alpacapalooza Black Reserve Champion, Casimiro (18.0 afd / 3.0 sd / 16.7 cv...true black!), and our lovely Claresse and she is a paternal half sister to our gorgeous, knock-out MB Christina. Buttercup has very correct phenotype that includes spear-shaped ears, depth of jaw, low tail set and correct leg structure. Her LF roan fleece has excellent density, fineness, high crimp definition, brightness, uniformity, staple length and a very silky - soft handle. With her vicuna shading and with her fleece genetics she will reliably produced dark colors with these desirable characteristics. She is average sized and her fleece coverage extends to her toes. Her sire is our champion Constantino who won blues and purples for fives years from top judges and in steep competition. He is stamping his image on his crias consistently! In addition, his bloodline is known for its off the charts lactation and IgG's. Bloodlines: 4P Black Magic (Sollocota), P. Misty Maiden (Sollocota), Desert Sun, CP Black Hawk (Pinaya), 4P Lanarks Locota (Malaquito; my first herdsire). P. Andrajo (Alianza). She is unrelated to Accoyo and Snowmass bloodlines.

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AOA# 31612227 Medium Fawn

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Tap Shoes keeps getting better. His 2015-2016 fleece is "wow"...super dense, tiny curls on the cut ends of minute bundles on the blanket and up the neck, aligned high definition crimp, long and bright. He has excellent phenotype and conformation as well. He is another example of the fantastic nick we get when we cross our Fox and Tino lines. (Admittedly, not all our past attempts at planned crosses have nicked well, so we're really pleased when we see the very best traits from both sides of the pedigree expressed so consistently with each cria! ) Tap Shoes spent Summers of 2014 and 2015 at the Everett Parks petting zoo with his related buddy Crusader. He's an excellent junior ambassador for alpacas with his correct phenotype and complete fleece coverage. His fleece is stunning with density, high definition crimp, high brightness, silky handle and length. If we (or anyone) could get something other than pintos when we breed our P. Misty Maiden ("Dam of the Century") bloodlines to dark or gray color genetics...oh well. They produce truly outstanding fawns from fawns, but when bred to gray and darker colors, they typically throw white on the head, neck and legs...with dark colored blankets of exceptional quality. The quality in dark fleece is there, even though they are technically "pintos". Bred back to fawns and solids, mostly solids are produced.

Updated 9/8/2016