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Alpaca, Huacaya, Herdsire (Male) | Dark Silver Grey

Sire: Snowmass RRoyal Fox

2024 EPDs top 2% for Fineness!!!

Snowmass RRoyal Fox

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Medium Silver Grey

AOA# 30820500DOB: 7/21/200717 yrs

Fox is going on 17 and acts like he's 10. If you want better fineness EPDs and uniform, fine, pigmented gray fleeces with lots of crimps per inch and essentially no guard hair, he's the one! This line produces lingering 13 to 19 micron pigmented gray fleeces...consistently. Fox's first five fleeces were combined into one lot to make yarn at Heart and Soul and they commented on the uniformity of the lot. Thanks to his sire, Royal Bronze, Fox is a master at overall uniformity, removing guard hair and fining down fleeces and adding more crimps per inch, good staple length, along with deep and vivid colors. He's a SILVER GRAY, SNOWMASS BRED, AOBA NATIONAL COMPOSITE CHAMPION and well proven to produce healthy, correct, typey progeny! He is highly ranked for other traits too. He virtually removes all guard hair, including belly and bib. We attribute this amazing ability to his sire, Snowmass Royal Bronze, who is recognized by Julie Skinner as having recognized as having strong vicuna traits. Density? He has royal fine daughters (see Dream Catcher) with 4+ pound tui blankets and SDs in the 3s. Character? Gray daughter, Mellona, is 14.5 afd, 3.5 cv; 59 curve (not a typo) @ 21 mos. and then a 63 curve the next year! Uniformity? Hardly anything to skirt out of his progeny's fleeces. Offspring have very consistent, uniform and high yielding fleeces...Little to no skirting is needed for these big blanket fleeces. Primary and secondary fibers are very similar, even across colors in the gray fleeces, most of which are pigmented silver grays. In every offspring you will see higher frequency & amplitude crimp. ZERO to minimal guard hair...no matter the dam or color of the cria. You'll likely never see any guard hair on the belly of a Fox offspring. Soundness and health, correct phenotype, conformation and movement. Even dispositions and very intelligent...and even a few silly personalities. Certified Sorted graded Fox's 3 y.o. champion for "WORSTED applications". No W, LF or MF crias and no blue eyes. -Gray dtr, Kristiana (sold at AOBA auction): EPDs 2% fineness and placed: RC, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th; bought her back in 2024. -Gray son (Irish Meadows) - 1st Futurity. -Black dtr. (Irish Meadows) produced a black Champion son by Jacob Black. -Gray dtr. Rayna (Sold to Dusk Till Dawn Alpacas at AOBA auction for $16k)- 1st @ Alpacapalooza 2012; RC/2nd GMAF. -Gray dtr. Silver Truffles - Purchased by Alpaca Country Estates. Other grandkids are winning ribbons too.

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 AOA# 30820500 Medium Silver Grey

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Sire: 2016 EPD for AFD: 322 of 21089. Snowmass RRoyal Fox Fox's fleece fineness genes from his sire RRoyal Bronze are enabling him to produce numerous progeny with mature fleeces still in the 14 to 19 micron range! The finest we have are Marquis and Mellona with 14.5 afd fleeces at 4 and 2 years of age respectively. Over the years we continue to compare this herdsire's lingering fleece stats to his peers. The best offspring from Enlightenment (related) and .38 Special are commensurate with Fox and his get. Fox has excellent EPDs for a gray herdsire and his own stats have (finally) been submitted for 2016. Very consistent...Little to no skirting is needed for these big blanket fleeces! Overall uniformity: fineness, character, color and length. Royal baby fineness lingering beyond five years. Primary fibers closely resemble secondaries Density - daughters with 4+ pound blankets - very fine w/ low SD. Higher frequency & amplitude crimp, even primaries...in every offspring. Very long staple. ZERO to minimal guard hair...no matter the dam or color of the cria. (You'll likely never see any guard hair on the belly of a Fox offspring.) Greater folicular density and coverage than their dams. Better brightness, handle and drape than the dams. ...All in deep, vivid colors and pigmented grays. Soundness and health. Correct phenotype, conformation and movement. Even dispositions and very intelligent...and a few silly personalities. Full Peruvian with P. Bueno, and maternal lines from the last imports. Certified Sorted graded Fox's champion 3rd fleece "fine and uniform across all fibers" and for "WORSTED applications". Offspring colors as of July 2015: 50% grays (14 F / 5 M)...mostly gray daughters. 35% true blacks (6 F / 9 M) 15% dark fawn, brown and maroon. No W, LF or MF crias and no blue eyes or blue flecks. -Gray dtr, Kristiana (purchased at AOBA auction by Stellar Alpacas): EPD 1% club and has several traits in the top 10%...and ribbons too! -Gray son (Irish Meadows) - 1st @, Futurity. -Black dtr. (Irish Meadows) produced a black Champion son by Jacob Black. -Gray dtr. Rayna (Sold to Dusk Till Dawn Alpacas at AOBA auction for $16k)- 1st @ Alpacapalooza 2012; RC/2nd GMAF 2013. -Gray dtr. Silver Truffles (Sold to Patagonia Alpaca Country Estates) - Award winner and her U.S. Steel cria, Estates Silver Titan, placed second at CABA 2014! -Dtr. Serenity (MRG Full P.) -1st Place, TxOLAN Halter Show, 2014 -Gray dtr. Dream Catcher - ribbon winner with 4.2 lb. blanket and a 3.x SD.

Updated 7/2/2017