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5th shearing and 4 1/2 inch unstretched...just amazing staple length!

Producer of Champions!!!

Sutton's Tamara

Alpaca, Huacaya, Bred (Female) | True Black

AOA #32727852, CLAA #45694 | DOB: 7/6/2014 (10 yrs)

Sire: High Plains Striker

Dam: Tandra of Ariya

Service Sire: Sutton Wingman's Rusty

COLOR CHAMPION GREY!!!

Sutton Wingman's Rusty

HuacayaYearling MaleDark Rose Grey

AOA# 36006151DOB: 7/23/20213 yrs

GENOTYPE: EE Aa1 Classic Grey This little guy definitely has the coolest facial markings! A stunning rosegrey male out of our Conopa XXX daughter, Ransom, and our amazing sire Wingman (Bomber) who's now back in the US. It's a first classic grey for Ransom and she made sure he was memorable! On top of his unique facial markings, Rusty's fleece has high frequency crimp, beautiful fineness and uniformity. He also has above average staple length and density to his fleece with great coverage from head to toe. He also has a calm demeanor which is always a big plus. We are really looking forward to seeing this boy grow into what we think will be an great herdsire one day! UPDATE: Rusty will be joining our herdsire row in 2024! Although he is related to some of our best females, we will still make sure to find him some great candidates for his first breeding season. This male is expressing an atypical classic grey phenotype because of his "Aa" genotype but he will produce classic greys at the same rate as a normal "fully expressed" classic grey ("aa"). We plan on favoring females carrying the double ASIP mutation "aa" in order to produce a higher rate of "fully expressed" classic offspring. When producing classic offspring with "aa" females, he will throw the "fully expressed" classic pattern ("aa") and the "atypical" classic pattern (Aa) on a 50/50 basis. We might be open to selling him but not until we can first secure a few offspring out of this amazing boy!

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AOA# 36006151 Dark Rose Grey

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Description

Tamara is one of the most stunning true black we have produced up to now. With a compact frame and beautiful head, she is one of our favorite foundation girls here. Although she inherited great density from her sire and good fineness and uniformity of her dam, one of her most impressive and striking fiber quality is her staple length. Her 5th fleece came in just short of 5 inches at shearing! Needless to say this is one of the longest staple length for age on our farm and her EPD tends to confirms that. She still ranks top 5% at age 8 for MSL and definitely passes on this trait to her crias which almost all rank Top 1% for that same trait. Tamara also carries a ton of fleece and her crias are always heavy fleeced beasts :) Although MSL seems more and more detrimental to halter and fleece showing these days and that this valuable trait is slowly being almost bred out across herds in both the US and Canada, we feel that it is very important for fiber processing longevity (and let's not forget, adds to overall fleece weight!). Too little or too much can certainly be detrimental for showing purposes but in terms of breeding value, we feel that this trait is clearly underrated and should be considered and valued as much as other traits such as MC, AFD or SD in the constant pursuit of the "perfect fleece"! Although her crias have all ranked top 1% for MSL, some still carry a high MC (have a look at her son Helix's fleece!). Her 2 classic silver sons from Wingman have also won CC and RC in 2022 (one behind the other!) so exceptional MSL is clearly not always detrimental to showing! That said, we highly value what this exceptional girl brings to our program and we look forward to many more crias from her! Tamara is bred to Ariya Pure Reserve's Jophiel for a 2023 cria. We are expecting a homerun with this one and hopefully a female cria this time around ;)