Bright Blue Silver

Granite Bay's Blue Silver

Alpaca, Huacaya, Jr. Herdsire (Male) | Medium Silver Grey

Sire: A Paca Fun's SilverLegacy

A Paca Fun's SilverLegacy

HuacayaMaleMedium Silver Grey

AOA# 32703856DOB: 4/20/201410 yrs

Every once in a while you find a “magic” sire x dam cross that consistently gives you outstanding results. Such is the case with the pairing that produced Silver Legacy. He is the 5th of 6 excellent cria out of this cross, 4 of whom we are retaining which is the only reason we are willing to let him go. His full siblings included 8X champion Silver Sensation (dam of A Paca Fun’s Ridiculous) 5 X Champion Aurora (another of our stellar production dams), and champion male I Am Legend who we have retained as a herdsire. Silver Legacy is a typey full patterned tuxedo silver gray that checks off every box in the breeder’s want list. He is upright and correct, with good coverage and bone. His fleece is uniform silver gray (no spots) with good fineness, and has 3-dimentional crimp and density. Combining the Rincon Cloud and Silver Legend lines, Silver Legacy comes from powerful genetics, but is conveniently unrelated to many of the other top gray lines in the country. This makes him a good pick for breeders looking to add their first gray male, or established programs looking to diversify their genetics. Silver Legacy has been a main member of our show string and has done well in shows, but we suspect the best is yet to come, as historically his line really blossoms starting at age 2. We look forward to seeing what this boy can do both continuing in the show ring and as he starts his breeding career.

More Details

 AOA# 32703856 Medium Silver Grey

Description

When you fall in love with a certain breeding program, appreciating their achievement in brightness (in grey color) you can hardly resist the temptation to add to your herd. We had recently sold a few of our males and had a little bit of seller's remorse, when we saw a post regarding some of Granite Bay beauties being available. Before other life circumstances could delay, we acquired him, sight-unseen. Well, we did have fleece shots and knew the reputation of care and lineage so we weren't worried one bit about what would be on the end of the lead when we received him. We couldn't wait to meet him at the show. One of our favorite esteemed judges was the fleece judge and she took a sample around to point out the crimp in his guard hair for others surrounding to witness the softness of hand. Blue's score card was icing on the cake. He received a 2nd of 11 in his class going up against some real contenders including some of his own prior herd-mates. His sire is A Paca Fun's SilverLegacy who won numerous first places from A Paca Funs successful grey program and his dam is Granite Bay's Blue XX who received a 1st place at ABR fleece show 2020. She sired the gorgeous true black Champion Granite Bay Jet Blue XX. Blue grew up real quick - in fact we suspect that may have been why he didn't rank as well in the halter show the following spring. Now he has grown to a nice stature, considerably well balanced and proportioned. Gold Country show the judge awarded him a 2nd place with comments big size for his age and a dense fleece. His walking fleece score was 8 of 10 brightness 3.5 of 5 density, 8 of 10 uniformity of micron and 16 of 20 fineness. We are extremely pleased. Blue's histogram came in as 20.2 micron. Considering we are striving to add brightness and density to our herd, we are highly looking forward to his offspring to come. He has a few confirmed pregnancies. We can hardly wait to see his offspring next summer. Let us know if you would like any more information on Granite Bay's Blue Silver. We expect a bright future in the offspring to come!

Awards

4th place Gold Country Gathering 2022 walking fleece yearling Judge; Dianne Timmerman

2nd place Gold Country Gathering 2022 halter yearling, Judge; Stephanie Meanor Glyptis

6th place California Classic 2022 halter Judge Laurel Shovlin

2nd place Gold Country Gathering 2021 walking fleece Judge Cheryl Gehly

Updated 2/13/2024