GREY GREY GREY
Lightning and Thunder
Alpaca, Suri, Herdsire (Male) | Medium Silver Grey
DOB: 8/27/2007 (17 yrs)
Sire: Coming Tornado
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Medium Brown, 847249, Peruvian
Coming Tornado
Medium Brown, 847249, Full Peruvian
This medium brown guy lives up to his name. He had shine and locks as soon as he was dry and there's never any doubt if he's in the neighborhood. He started slowly in the show ring, but finished strongly with a Color Championship. His third fleece is even stronger and, if possible, more lustrous than his second, which topped his cria coat. Underneath it all, Tornado has strong legs, beautiful proportions and a correct bite: the complete package. Tornado is coming on strong as a herd sire. He settled his first female with just the second breeding. His first cria was born July 2006, a dark brown boy named Sizzler. Darker than either sire or dam, Tornado shows that he lets the outstanding qualities of his true black sire Diablo through to his offspring. His second cria is a surprising silver grey with tight pencil locks out of a beige dam. We haven't used him as much as we might because he has a lot of competit
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Dam: MSR Calipso
<--ari-->White<--color-->Calipso really delivers the goods. Her first two crias capture the spirit of their sires. She showed herself to be a conscientious mother, producing lots of milk. Before her first shearing, Calipso had sweeping pencil locks, a trait her offspring show. The comfort factor of her fleece is 99.3%. Her first cria had a 17.8 micron count at 19 months. Calipso just birthed a lovely, pencil-locked grey male by our young Coming Tornado, medium brown Color Champion son of Diablo. We have confirmed her pregnancy to LFA Accoyo Cesario from a breeding less than a month following the birth of Lightning and Thunder. Calipso has shown herself to be a steady and reliable production female.
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Description
Lightning and Thunder is a prime example of the mix of national origins. He has strength and character of Lustrous locks from his Peruvian forebears and amazing color and Fineness from the Chilean and Bolivian. He placed first in his first time out and has amazing presence when he was a seven-month-old. When he was first born we thought he was fawn, but very soon the silver lining appeared, to our joy. The grey might have been expected, as he has true black on both sides of his pedigree as well as both white and fawn. He echoes the grey freckles of his dam. Thunder has remarkable lock definition and density, a gift from his sire, Coming Tornado.
Lightning and Thunder's first few cria have been Excellent and GREY :) as well. This young Herdsire is on his way to becoming a big Grey Super Star in time...
Updated 8/2/2011
Offspring
LF Grey Lineage! Grey tips!
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Male13 yrsMedium Fawn, Light Silver Grey
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