Scientific Data
1/1/2012 | 16.1 AFD / 4.3 SD / 26.7% CV / 100% CF | |
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Hidden Hill Great Day
Alpaca, Huacaya, Open (Female) | Light Brown
AOA #32756623 | DOB: 9/26/2011 (13 yrs)
Dam: Casanova's Dorianna
Casanova's Dorianna
HuacayaOpen (Female)Medium Fawn
AOA# 1180688DOB: 8/26/200420 yrs
Do you love Victor's Hemiaccoyo Casanova and what he sires? Do the names Aussie .38 Special and Aussie Guns N Roses come to mind? We surely do love the work of this "other male named Casanova.". Here is one of his daughters that has produced everything from elite whites to incredibly and equally elite browns and true blacks -- all daughters, in fact.
Dorianna is a very square, compact female with very pleasing proportions from any angle. She is covered from head to toe and has exceptional density. Here is an awesome dam that births easily, has plenty of milk for her crias.
AOA# 1180688 Medium Fawn
Description
Great Day is perhaps the very definition of a "sleeper." She is a quiet girl, ultra-compact, and a super easy keeper who gets along with everyone.
Her pedigree, too, is quietly excellent: her sire, FCF Atreyu, may not be well-known, but he is possessed of outstanding fineness -- 15.6 AFD on his first fleece; 20.4 AFD on his fifth -- and his few offspring have all inherited it as well. His sire, Rensselaer, is renowned as a producer of elite-fleeced offspring, and his bloodlines are rare -- a son of P3 White Lightning and out of impact dam Azul Celest, his parents are producers of excellence whose lineages are well-known, yet uncommon in the elite alpaca world. Great Day's dam sire is the great Victor's Hemiaccoyo Casanova -- sire of Aussie .38 Special, among many others champions -- and her dam line traces back to Peruvian Leon, a medium fawn Accoyo import who was a cornerstone of the renowned Heart's Desire herd.
Back to Great Day. She is not ostentatious -- she is shy, quiet, and minds her own business. However, she is a beautiful animal, with excellent substance of bone, good conformation, a super compact frame, full coverage and a gorgeous head. She is very pleasing to the eye.
Under the hood, Great Day has always been a sleeper here, because she is so shy and quiet that it's easy to forget what an awesome fleece she has. Her first fleece had a tidy AFD of 16.1, and she has retained an excellent degree of fineness as she has aged -- along with a beautiful little high-frequency crimp style and excellent brightness.
The real deal, though -- the ultimate test -- is her cria. Great Day's 2016 boy has the most incredible fleece that we have ever produced. He has an ultra-high-frequency crimp that is absolutely everywhere on his body, even up his topknot. He is bright, dense, ultra-organized, and fine, fine, fine. He is also grey ... Light rose/lavender grey. He's also absolutely adorable.
Great Day will remain in our foundation herd and is not for sale. Given the quality of her first cria, we have repeated the breeding that produced him, and hers will be one of our most anticipated offspring every year.
Updated 10/29/2019
Offspring
OMG lavender fleece!!
Howling Hill Dusk Till Dawn
Male8 yrsMedium Rose Grey
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