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A younger Cocoa Puffe A very pregnant Cocoa Puffe.  8/19/12, due 9/3/12.  Daughter Chocolat in background. Head Shot Daughter, Bella Chocolat Son, El Corazon`, multichamp Multichamp son, Prosecco

Senior dam of color at Bella Vita Ranch

Cocoa PuffeBred

Alpaca, Huacaya, Bred (Female) | Light Brown

AOA #821850 | DOB: 7/14/2000 (24 yrs) (Due Date: 9/24/2014)

Sire: Sonny
 
Dam: Shelley Fabares
 
Service Sire: Tuscan's Semper Fi di Bella Vita

The next great herdsire at Bella Vita

Tuscan's Semper Fi di Bella Vita

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Light Fawn
AOA# 32268843DOB: 8/17/201113 yrs
They don't get much better than this. Semper Fi is a full Peruvian and 5/8 Accoyo male from a breeding that has repeated its excellence in every cria. The first two crias from this cross were females, and we have been hoping for a male to arrive to carry on both his sire's and dam's genetic excellence at Bella Vita. He arrived in 2011, and Semper Fi is his name. Perfect in conformation and with great commanding presence, as all the Tuscan crias have, his fleece matches with density, fineness, brightness to rival suri luster, uniformity and a buttery soft hand that makes you want to keep your hands in it forever. Semper Fi's older full sister, Toscana, sold in the top 10% of prices at the AOBA auction several years ago. Semper Fi's other full sister, Zahara, sold off the ranch sight unseen for a very respectable price based on her sister's reuptation, her own show record and her genetic excellence. Semper Fi is the third cria from this cross, and he is all we hoped for. The Marine's motto is Semper Fi (Fidelis), meaning "always faithful", and our Semper Fi lives up to this motto with his faithful adherence to the genetic code in his DNA. Predictable excellence is what we have observed in the offspring from the cross of Sunny Mesa's Tuscan Gold and Sunset Hills Zeph's Zsa Zsamora, daughter of multichampion Zephyrus (Roayl Fawn) and out of Iris, a Caligula daughter. Semper Fi's show career started at the 2012 Futurity where he placed a very competitive 2nd place, and the top 2 in this class were very close. Semper Fi earned his first championship at the 2012 ABR Fall Festival Fleece show, and he has earned 3 others in both halter and fleece shows. He is a superb example of his breed and represents the future at Bella Vita Ranch. Check out his 4-year old histogram to note the lasting fineness of the Tuscan Gold offspring. Semper Fi has cria on the ground, so a proven herdsire. At 4 years old, his fleece is still below 20 micron and has a comfort factor of 98.8, meaning he only has 1.2% of fibers over 30. That translates to beautiful, buttery soft yarn and end product. Need that lasting fineness in your herd without sacrificing density? Semper Fi is one of the top males in our retirement package. See package deals for details. For the right price and terms, we would sell him outside of the package. And his 2015 daughter is on the ground with dense fleece that is developing into beautiful, crimpy bundles as she grows. She, too, along with her dam, are available in our retirement package, as is Semper Fi's dam, Tuscan Gold, etc, so you can continue breeding for these excellent, predictable results.
 AOA# 32268843 Light Fawn

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Description

What a great producer this gal has been! She is of Australian/Chilean lineage, and she has produced multiple blue ribbon and color champion crias for us, many of whom remain here at Bella Vita for their genetic excellence. They have been a big part of our foundation herd. Cocoa Puffe has produced several silky style huacayas for us - Black Silk, Prosecco, and Perfect Storm, to name a few. We look so forward to her babies every year because they are so very stellar. We paid $16,000 for Chocolat when we first started in alpacas and have kept almost every one of her crias in our herd as foundation stock, and have sold her grandbabies and 1/2 interest in Prosecco and Corazon for sales of approximately $90,000 back to the ranch, so I think she has more than paid for herself. We have not seen Cocoa Puffe's pedigree in any other alpacas in the US (there may be a few, but they would be very rare), and Cocoa Puffe was a maiden when she came to us, pregnant with her first cria (Chocolat). She would be one we would have considered harvesting eggs from for IVF were it readily available and at a younger age for her. Cocoa Puffe produces crias who exhibit strong bone, complete fleece coverage that is dense, crimpy and fine. She had produced several black cria. Cocoa Puffe herself is light brown with black points and covered head to toes in dense fleece. She has a very laid back personality and is easy to handle. She is currently bred to Semper Fi for a June 2016 cria. Although she is an older female, she is still very healthy and reproductively sound.

Updated 9/14/2015

Offspring

TB blue ribbon foundation female
Bella Chocolat
Bred (Female)21 yrsBay Black 
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Lingering fineness with this girl!
Chia Pet di Bella Vita
Female18 yrsBeige
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MultiChamp, great staple length and wt!
El Corazon` di Bella Vita
Herdsire (Male)19 yrsMedium Fawn
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Black, bright and fine!
Rastafari di Bella Vita
Jr. Herdsire (Male)11 yrsTrue Black
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TB/BB Tuscan Gold daughter
Tuscan's Black Silk di Bella Vita
Bred (Female)15 yrsTrue Black 
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FINENESS AND COLOR
Tuscan's Cortina Di Bella Vita
Open (Female)13 yrsLight Fawn 
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Dk brown/dk rose gray Jr. Herdsire
Tuscan's Perfect Storm di Bella Vita
Jr. Herdsire (Male)14 yrsDark Brown, Dark Rose Grey
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Co-owned with Bella Vita Alpaca Ranch
Tuscan's Prosecco di Bella Vita
Jr. Herdsire (Male)16 yrsDark Brown
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$15,000
Champion genetics on both sides
Tuscan's Prosecco di Bella Vita
Herdsire (Male)16 yrsDark Fawn
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