When he was evaluated by a famous international alpaca consultant we were told, "You need to control the genetics of this one. Don't sell a partial interest to anyone and just lease him out once or twice a year to selected farms." A real compliment - and good advice - but we have quite a stable of white males, so if you want to add some true fineness to your herd you can control access to these genetics yourself. Another wonderful son of Bravado. His dam, Dorsett, has distinguished herself by the finenes of the PRIMARY fibers in the fleeces of her offspring and grandcrias. D'Artagnon had skin biopsies evaluated by both Dr. Norm Evans and Dr. Jim Watts ====Follicles per sq. mm==S/P Ratio= Watts....... 40.1.............. 9.6 Evans....... 49 ...............10.8 Currently D'Artagnon stands at stud with Carrie Hull at Timber Basin Alpacas. Carrie Hull is a Certified Sorter (TM) who has visited countless farms, has seen numerous herdsires, and evaluated hundreds of fleeces. Prior to that, she has over a decade of experience working with one of the top alpaca farms in the country. If Carrie Hull wants to use D'Artagnon on her herd, maybe you should consider using him to D'Artagnon's 2012 EPDs AFD -1.03 0.351 SDAFD -0.391 0.352 SF -1.085 0.358 %F>30 -4.86 0.361 MC 1.703 0.353 SDMC 1.088 0.248 %M -6.176 0.339 MSL 1.371 0.297 FW 0.349 0.195 D'Artagnon has a fantastic pedigree and EPDs. He would be a great herdsire to decrease fiber diameter and increase staple length, at the same time decreasing % fibers over 30 microns and reducing percentage of medullation.