Animal Details

8x champ, '08 Nat'l fleece CC, 2x1% EPDs

Kanaka

Alpaca, Huacaya, Herdsire (Male) | White, Medium Fawn

AOA #1166927 | DOB: 10/21/2004 (20 yrs)

Sire: Avatar!

The Legend - and now retired.

Avatar!

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Light Rose Grey, Medium Rose Grey

AOA# 829619DOB: 7/15/200123 yrs

Congratulations to our friend Annie Hunt of Willow Wind Farm, for acquiring a share of Avatar. Please contact Annie about Avatar breedings. We are thrilled with Avatar's newest creations - including Delphi's Avella - The 2017 National grey female halter Champion at just over 6 months of age. And congratulations to Avella's new owners, Debbie and Dale Hoerl; Alpacas of Moose Creek Ranch! Many more Avatar crias will be arriving in 2018. Avatar has beautiful crimpy, dense, and fine fleece, but what separates him from other outstanding herd sires, is his phenomenal handle - due to both exceptional uniformity, and very bright, low scale fiber. Cameron Holt, AOBA Senior Judge Trainer and world wide fiber expert, gave the following scores to Avatar's fleece: Fineness: 15 out of 15 ; Handle: 5 out of 5 ; Uniformity of micron: 7 out of 8 ; Crimp: 8.5 out of 10 ; Density: 3 out of 5 ; Brightness: 8 out of 10 ; Lack of medullation: 8 out of 10. His daughter Delphi's Lailah won Color Champion Grey Female Fleece at the 2012 Nationals. His son Delphi's Rama won a Blue Ribbon at the 2012 National Fleece Show, (and then brown Color Champion at the Tenessee Waltz Fleece Show). These two Avatar kids insured Delphi's win of the 2012 Classic Cup for fleece, at the 2012 Nationals. Another standout offspring is Kanaka - an 8X Champion with 1% EPD's in both SD and >30; and 2% EPD's in fineness. While we don't participate in the program, we agree Avatar's son Kanaka's EPD stats do reflect his sire's strong suits. Avatar's many other crias now include Six AOBA National Halter or Fleece Champions, several Futurity Champions, and many many many Multi-Champion and Blue Ribbon show winners, in addition to the winners of many Special Awards, such as the Best Brightness award at the National Fleece Show - the first time this award has been awarded to a grey. Please enjoy viewing some of his lovely crias and their fleeces, shown below. Avatar's Histograms: 7-1-02 = AFD 18.7 / SD 3.4 / CV 18.0 / 0.7% >30 6-11-03 = AFD 20.9 / SD 3.4 / CV 16.3 / 1.0% >30 5-1-04 = AFD 21.8 / SD 4.0 / CV 18.4 / 2.2% >30 6-1-07 = AFD 24.5/ SD 4.4 / CV 18.0/ 8.9% >30 5-27-08 = AFD 22.4/ SD 4.2 / CV 18.8/ 3.4% >30 5-13-09 = AFD 21.9/ SD 3.9 / CV 17.8 / 2.5% > 30 6-9-10 = AFD 21.5 / SD 3.7 / CV17.2 / 1.7% >305

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AOA# 829619 Light Rose Grey, Medium Rose Grey

Dam: Crescent Moon's Mint Twist

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Kanaka is the most renowned of all of Avatar's offspring. In his amazing show career, Kanaka amassed 6 Color Championships, 2 Reserve Color Champs, and a dozen blue ribbons in both halter and fleece. If that wasn't enough, Kanaka has an awesome EPD ranking too. He is ranked top 1% in BOTH SD and %>30. His AFD and SF ranks are in the top 2%. With about 50 kids on the ground - when bred to silver or true black, he seems to want to throw grey about 1/2 the time. However, most of his girl friends have been light in color. Not that color matters with his quality - but since his dad is rose grey - some breeders may choose to point him in that direction. Kanaka has the very best of Avatar - and Legacy - two of the best herd sires in the U.S. - concentrated in one amazing male. His breeding career has unfortunately been a bit limited, due to sometimes finding himself at farms that have been divorcing, downsizing or liquidating. That said - he does have some excellent kids on the ground, including EON Hadassah, who racked up the following awards in her amazing career: 4 Championships, 8 blues, 3 seconds, 1 third, 3 fourths and a fifth. Kanaka also sired the grey mother of Autumnsun's Dauntless - one of the best greys currently showing in Colorado and a champion in her own right. Give him half a chance and he'll knock it out of the park. We are offering 10 introductory breedings at $500. 7 remaining. UPDATE: Kanaka settled his first female about 3 hours after arriving. Pre-potency has certainly not been lost whilst not breeding. He now has a handful of girls spitting off. We've bred him to white, fawn, black and grey. Kanaka's crias have arrived in white, fawn, light rose, and dark rose grey. His fleece continues to amaze as well. His 13th fleece is 20.7 micron with a 4.4 SD and 44.3 Curve and only 3.2% > 30. Wow!