Sentinel Ranch is proud to Welcome Sterling Rose to our Herdsire row! We thank Brian and Terri Gedney of Treasure Valley alpacas for this exceptional male! Sterling Rose was chosen as a Herdsire for his exceptional fineness at 14.1 microns! Currently he is five years old, and fineness is holding at 17.7 microns! EPD top 1% leader trait! According to Yocom McColl, the average huacaya has a mean curvature of 33.2 degrees per millimeter. Finer fiber diameter is often associated with a higher mean curvature. The greater the number of degrees per millimeter, the finer the crimp. Sterling's mean curvature is 62.5 deg/mm, which means finer fiber! Needing to add in Crimp? Extreeme High Frequency Crimp, Sterling has 62 crimps per inch! Sterling is virtually unmatched in particular traits for color, his offspring will be at the top of the percentiles! Here is what Treasure Valley noted about Sterling: Fineness is holding at an extraordinary rate and showing all positive fleece characteristics at this age. Sterling Rose has currently produced a male cria named Tambopata in the 13 micron range. This herdsire is rated number 4 in the EPD program for SDMC of 2.77 , note all other males in the top five are white presently identifying Sterling Rose as the TOP colored Herdsire in North America for this particular trait. Year one Histogram: 14.1m, sd: 3.4m, cv: 24.3%, >30: 1.1% Year two Histogram: 14.8m, sd: 3.9m, cv 26.5%, >30: 1.1%, mc: 65.2 deg/mm Year 4 Histogram: 17.7m, sd: 4.9m, cv: 27.8%, >30: 2.3% Sterling Rose is a medium brown herdsire loaded with prepotent genetics on both sides of his extraordinary pedigree. His Sire Snowmass Sterling Legend is a true black herdsire known for holding his fineness and transfers these exceptional fleece characteristics into his offspring. At four years of age he was in the 15 micron range and was sold to a breeder located in Germany. Sterlings Sire: SNOWMASS STERLING LEGEND Sterlings Dam: SNOWMASS ANDEAN ROSE PETAL Excellent genetics, 4Peruvian Legacy, 4Peruvian Andean Gold, Peruvian Bueno just to list a few!

Ponpona has a nice frame, perfect conformation- true to type female with pleasing personality and fleece characteristics. What amazes me about Ponpona is crimp character that is consistent, uniform, tiny zipper HOLDING at her age of 7 years, and after producing several cria! Open up her fiber for a Wow- she looks like a yearling! Great mother with birthing ease, plenty of milk and watchful eye over cria. Nice proven female to add to any herd. Ponpona's offspring in 2014 was an extremely bright black/rose gray Male, great head, fine fleece, good coverage. Arrow has consistently placed 1st and 2nd in all of his shows! Histogram: afd: 21.8m, sd:4.6m, cv: 21.2, %>30: 4.6% Ponpona has been bred to our EPD trait leader Sterling Rose in July! We expect a cria in late June 2016 with improved fineness, and consistency of great characteristics that Ponpona passes to her cria. Update: Sterling X Ponpona cria has arrived 6/11/16. A beautiful tuxedo rose grey female at 24lbs! We are so pleased with her we are repeating the breeding. Ponpona sells with a breeding to any Herdsire at Sentinel Ranch.