Genotype: Ee a3a2 PATAGONIA'S CHIEF Patagonia’s Chief, a true black top-sire on our ranch. Not only a champion, Chief is a proven Champion producer as well. He adds lots of density and staple length to his progeny, not to mention fineness, handsome typey head, and substance of bone. Chief's crias so far have had beautiful structure and uniformity, retained fineness, and consistency within their fiber. Depending upon the color of the dam, he has produced true black, bay black, silver grey, rose grey, brown & fawn offspring. Patagonia’s Chief’s sire is none other than multi-champion Patagonia’s Lennox. Chief’s dam is Patagonia’s Allegra who is a Brown Color Champion at AOBA, and received 12 ribbons including Produce of Dam, two first place ribbons at AOBA, first place at MAPACA, and a second place at The Futurity. A SAMPLE OF PATAGONIA'S CHIEF'S AWARD WINNING PROGENY INCLUDE: ** PATAGONIA'S TWILIGHT - MRG Female 9/17/12 (Supreme Champ, Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** ESTATES CHIEF BLACK HAWK - TB Male 7/6/2019 (Color Champion, 2020 CABO) ** PATAGONIA'S DUSTY - DRG Female 9/20/12 (Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** STARSHIRE'S VICENTE - TB Male 7/20/14 (Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** ESTATES MANHATTAN - TB Male 7/11/15 (Res. Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** PATAGONIA'S ELYSA - MF Female 7/16/12 (Res. Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** PATAGONIA'S SANSON - MB Male 7/16/12 (Res. Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** ALEUTIAN EAGLE'S CARMELLA - DF Female 8/9/12 (Res. Color Champ & 2nd) ** STARSHIRE'S CONNERY - TB Male 8/21/14 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) ** SENTINEL'S ARROW - DRG Male 8/1/13 (Blue Ribbon) ** PATAGONIA'S LA ROSITA - LSG Female 6/22/13 (Blue Ribbon) ** MIRRIN OF STARSHIRE - TB Female 6/26/14 (Blue Ribbon)

I just love this little girl, she is growing nicely and should be mature enough for breeding this fall. She has better fleece than her dam in character and fineness. Her Dam is nothing to sneeze at with the fineness at ten years of age she still holds a micron count of 24, she just doesn't carry the density and crimp like Chia. Chia is a jump in quality over her Dam, given her Sire, it has been expected, he is extremely dense and fine, all of his cria's to date (all girls) have been far better than their Dams. Here are the stat's from the EPD Estimator for this breeding for cria in 2022 Trait Sire Dam Progeny Estimate Average Fiber Diameter -2.152 -0.048 -1.1 Standard Deviation (AFD) -0.511 -0.064 -0.287 Spin Fineness -2.186 -0.039 -1.113 Percent of Fibers Larger Than 30 Microns -7.747 -1.054 -4.401 Mean Curvature 4.286 -1.055 1.615 Standard Deviation of Curvature 1.889 -0.368 0.76 Percent Medullation -2.501 -1.234 -1.867 Mean Staple Length -5.451 -2.787 -4.119 Fleece Weight -0.244 -0.159 -0.202 Birth Weight -0.075 0.298 0.111