Vengador daughter -- carries true black!
KCF Vengador's Dippin Dots
Alpaca, Huacaya, Open (Female) | White
AOA #30602939 | DOB: 6/17/2008 (16 yrs)
Sire: PPeruvian Vengador G4568
30602939<--ari-->White<--color-->An impact herdsire of the highest caliber, Vengador passed away in 2009. His descendents are proving to be among the most prepotent producers of that combination of exceptional fineness and density that we are all striving for.
In studying his descendents, it appears likely that Vengador carried the tuxedo grey gene (or genes). <--description-->
Dam:
KCF Augusto's Peruvian Autumn Frost
HuacayaOpen (Female)White
AOA# 825070DOB: 10/6/200024 yrs
The full sister of our first Champion Herdsire, Mucho Augusto. Responsible for the "Zip" in all our white zipper fleeces over the years.
Service Sire: Eddie Cloud
30602939<--ari-->Medium Silver Grey<--color-->I lucked onto an outstanding rose grey herdsire in the very beginning of my alpaca herd building, but it took me over a year to find a silver boy. Well, Eddie was worth the wait: he is everything I was looking for in a silver grey stud.
It probably should not have surprised me that my silver grey boy would wind up being a son of Emerald Farm's Orlando Cloud. Orlando is the first grey male I ever saw who made me go, "Wow." Having been named Herdsire of the Year two years in a row, Orlando probably needs little introduction. His offspring have won more than 80 color championships (and counting), not to mention hundreds of ribbons, as he reliably imparts his fantastic type, density and character to his get -- including Eddie.
Even when an animal has a killer sire like Orlando, however, his dam is equally important -- arguably more-so. We are into fineness, here, and Eddie's dam, Acacia, boasted a 16.3 micron AFD to her fleece as a yearling -- as did her dam. I was impressed by the fact that Eddie's maternal half-brother had a fleece that was equally bright, fine and soft. Although, Eddie's was more impressive, to me, because his was from his third shearing!
I seek out fineness, uniformity and brightness for my alpaca breeding stock, all of which translates to a soft hand to the fleece. Well, Eddie is beautifully bright, and his third shearing yielded an AFD of 18.6 microns and a 98.4% comfort factor -- EXCELLENT fineness and great uniformity for a three-year-old grey. Now we have his fourth -- 19.4 AFD with a 96.8% CF, with wonderful brightness and hand! On top of this, Eddie has great density and outstanding staple length. His crimp is uniform from tip to skin, and medium in frequency.
Eddie is a compact size that I find most ideal, with the broad chest, thick bone and terrific spring of rib that I require in a stud. His build is equally ideal -- just like his sire's -- extremely short-coupled, with a rounded rump, low tail-set and balanced tie of his ne<--description-->
Description
**SALE PENDING**
Dippin' is an own daughter of Accoyo Vengador. She is one of his very last, and, as Vengador died in 2009, they are getting rarer and rarer. Though not, perhaps, quite as famous as Caligula, Legacy and Hemingway, Vengador is nonetheless an impact sire of the highest caliber. His name appears in the lineage of today's top-producing alpacas -- often more than once.
Dippin's dam, Autumn Frost, is a daughter of the fantastic Peruvian Augusto -- sire of MFI Peruvian Wellington, MFI Brock, Snowmass Accoyocusani and grandsire and ancestor to hundreds of champions and elite animals. She has been a top producer for Kendall Creek Farm; indeed, the fact that she was born there and still resides there 15 years later is a testament to her quality.
It appears that Dippin' is the spitting image of her sire: heavy-bodied, solid, and long, with a lovely head and full topknot. She has good bone and coverage, and, though she is a bit stretchier than our ideal, her proportions are very balanced. Her disposition is calm and quiet and she is a very easy keeper.
Dippin's most notable feature is, as is befitting of her lineage, her fleece. She possesses that incredible combination of fineness and density that can be readily appreciated with the hand. Her histogram at age 4 boasted an excellent AFD of 18.2 and, even better, an SD of 3.6 and only 0.5% > 30 microns. Although at age 8, her crimp has lost some of its amplitude, it has lost none of that high-frequency that Vengador is known for producing. Coupled with a high degree of brightness, her fleece still has an excellent, soft hand.
In studying the descendents of Accoyo Vengador, it appears to me that he carried the tuxedo grey gene (masked by his white coloring). If this is true, it would give Dippin' a 50% chance of having inherited this gene -- again, masked by white -- from her sire. Dippin' has been bred to our grey Orlando Cloud son to test this hypothesis; he also carries the square proportions that we like to see on alpacas and an excellent staple length, so he compliments her well.
Dippin's cria has arrived! He is not grey, but he IS truly true, "don't make 'em any blacker" black -- and that's a pretty darned awesome consolation prize out of a white dam! He has no white spots on him at all. Dippin' birthed easily and is a terrific mother, and, although her cria arrived a wee bit earlier than expected, he is growing great.
Dippin' sells with her true black boy and a breeding to any of our non-restricted herdsires.
Updated 10/5/2016