Update: Graycee just delivered a beautiful 19.4 pound female cria yesterday June 12. Very pretty chocolate color at this point and very nice pop corn fleece! Very excited about this girl!!!! The crias sire is Bisturi, same sire as Graycee's 2011 cria. Graycee gave us another out standing female cria, this time sired by Skywalker by Poseidon of FDA. Her fleece is the best we havehad born on our ranch so far. She was 3 weeks early but still weighed in a 20 pounds. Her fleece had nice crimp from day 1 and beautiful shine with great density.

The results came back from the skin biopsy which are very favourable: Below is a write up from Jim Watts, MV. Sc, Ph.D: He is a rather special male!!! Jim Watts analysis: The 14 month old alpaca, FDA Rembrandt, has high levels of fiber density and fiber length. The density reading of 67.7 follicles per square millimeter will be lower when the animal reaches mature body size, but not sufficient to alter the fact that it is a high density animal. This view is supported by the high level of secondary follicle development that has occurred - a secondary follicle to primary follicle ratio of 13.5 to 1 is exceptional for an alpaca. The primary fibers and secondary fibers are fine in diameter (means of 24.5 microns and 17.6 microns respectively) and very uniform in diameter (standard deviations of fiber diameter of 2.9 microns respectively). Note the low level of medullation (13%) in the secondary fiber population - a feature that is sought and only accompanies alpacas with a very fine and uniform fleeces. The fibers are growing in length at the fast rate of 0.55 millimeters per day.