Scientific Data
1/1/2016 | AFD: 18.1 SD: 4 CV: 22.3 %>30: 0.9 | |
1/1/2016 | 20.3 AFD, 4.9 SD, 24.3 CV, 3.8%>30 | |
Sweet Recollection of Grazing Hills
Alpaca, Huacaya, Bred (Female) | Beige
AOA #1227802 | DOB: 6/13/2015 (9 yrs) (Due Date: 7/22/2020)
Sire: Snowmass Reminiscence
1227802<--ari-->White<--color-->Snowmass Reminiscence is the perfect all around herdsire to excel your white genetics, as well as your color genetics. He has an Elite bright, fine and well defined beige fleece that is conparable to the best of Snowmass' whites and beiges, yet he has the significant color genetics behind him as well.
He would be the one to cross to any color female to get color and to improve fineness, brightness, uniformity, extension of fineness, and staple length. The brightness and handle of his fiber is simply superb.
Snowmass Reminiscence is a strong robust male much like his dam; SNOWMASS BELLADONNA and his sire; SNOWMASS ANDEAN BRONZE. As you go back in his line you will see that PPERUVIAN EDELWEIS, LEGACY GOLD, and SNOWMASTER are all there.
Reminiscence has well over a three dozen cria on the ground already, ranging all around the color scale, including white, fawns, browns & blacks! All of which excel in their fiber quality with luster, density, and fineness!!!
You could simply not ask for a more exciting in genetics to back up everything you see before you in this male. To get all these genetics in one stud is a mark of excellence, which takes a lot of time and is hard to acquire. AN ELITE STUD SNOWMASS REMINISCENCE!
Thank you to Evergreen Valley Alpacas for choosing Snowmass Reminiscence for breedings!
Note: The way discounted price of our two herdsires is not a reflection of their quality!
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Dam: Grazing Hills Diomedes' Dehlia_deleted
1227802<--ari-->Beige<--color-->Dehlia was Diomedes' first cria, and we were elated with her quality. She had copious amounts of tightly curled, bright, bundled fleece when she landed. As she matured, visitors to the ranch would Ooh and Aah over her beautiful fleece and frame. As you will note in the show results below, judges agreed with them.
Marathon Monday was Dehlia's first cria, and she had the most spectacular fleece we've ever seen. Her fiber stats on her first shearing were 12.4 AFD, 2.2 SD, CV 17.6, %>30 0.2 with a fine crimp and matchstick bundling. Monday is pictured with her male offspring, Hezekiah, from Aspen Ridge Augusto's Cochiti. Hezekiah is listed on our site as a Junior Herdsire, and his first and second fleeces have garnered blue ribbons...it is spectacular!
Dehlia also produced a gorgeous male from Snowmass Perfection. He was all we had hoped for, and you can see more of him on his listing.
She should have been bred every year, but like many farms, we held females open with the downturn in the market. This year, Dehlia birthed a male from our own Grazing Hills Colin. Colin's sire was Glacial Storm, so once again, we pulled from the Augusto line; this cria is another great example of what a stellar foundation female should produce.
We showed Dehlia at Alpacapalooza 2008 where she took a Blue ribbon in the beige class of juvenile females. That same year at NW Showcase, she garnered another Blue and also the Reserve Champion ribbon at not quite 8 months of age. We would have shown her again, but she was ready to start her breeding career, and we decided that was an even better option.
Dehlia produced another gorgeous cria in June of 2015 at 309 days gestation, Sweet Recollection!!! You can read about that experience on our blog...GESTATIONAL MICROWAVE.
Dehlia is currently bred to our Ephraim and due June 2017. Since they are both extremely dense, this should be a beautiful cria!
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Service Sire: Crystal Spartan
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Description
Sweet Recollection , aka. Sweets, just had her first cria summer 2018.
A healthy little boy, out of our herdsire, Ephraim. A beautiful medium brown, with a fiery personality and gorgeous conformation. Future herdsire material here!
Then in summer 2019, she produced Festivus during our Fiber festival in July! That was fun!
He's a cute little white, lustrous, beautiful boy!
Sweet Recollection has done well for us in the show ring. She has won at CABA and we will be sending her fleece off for processing this fall! She has an amazing staple length with continuous crimp to the very tip, as well as being dense and that luster we love!
Sweets was bred to one of our new herd sires, named Crystal Spartan. He is a Medium Brown color and has a beautiful histogram!
2019 Histogram:
AFD: 21.2
SD: 4.6
CV: 21.9
%>30: 2.9
2018 Histogram:
AFD: 20.3
SD: 4.9
CV: 24.3
%>30: 3.8
2017 Histogram:
AFD: 17.8
SD: 3.8
CV: 21.2
%>30: 1.3
2016 Histogram:
AFD: 18.1
SD: 4
CV: 22.3
%>30: 0.9
Awards
[5th] Fifth place, 2016 CABA Classic Halter Full Fleece Huacaya Beige Female Juvenile
Updated 7/31/2020
Offspring
Grazing Hills Soren
Male6 yrsMedium Brown
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Grazing Hills Summer Festivus
Male5 yrsBeige
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