Dk brown/dk rose gray Jr. Herdsire

Tuscan's Perfect Storm di Bella Vita

Alpaca, Huacaya, Jr. Herdsire (Male) | Dark Brown, Dark Rose Grey

Sire: Sunny Mesa's Tuscan Gold

Sire of Distinction-celebrating 100 cria

Sunny Mesa's Tuscan Gold

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Light Fawn

AOA# 1197709DOB: 8/8/200420 yrs

We are retiring, so Tuscan can be purchased with our breeding/show stock. See our package deal. Tuscan Gold has set a new standard of excellence. He is a complete package of perfect conformation, elite fleece characteristics with excellent bundling, brightness, crimp, and uniformity. The brightness of his fleece rivals suri luster. He has total coverage of this fleece from his spectacular head to his toes. And does he have presence! He just knows he is something special. When we check his sheared fleece in at the shows, it invariably gathers admirers and then further inquiry on which animal this fleece belongs to. This fleece has earned multiple championships and every specialty ribbon there is. He has maintained fineness well into his breeding years and is passing on this lasting fineness to his offspring. Tuscan stayed below 20 micron until he was 8 years of age when he was 20.0. And he passes this fineness on. For example, check out the histograms on sons Tuscan's Maestro, Tuscan's Semper Fi, Tuscan's Perfect Storm, all below 20 micron so far at 2 to 3 years of age. And uniformity is also in histogram mix. But a great herdsire is really measured by his offspring, and has Tuscan delivered! He stamps his babies with remarkable consistency for fine, well organized and crimpy fleece with his signature brightness on a beautifully balanced frame with good bone, extremely typey heads, complete leg coverage and his unmistakable presence. These babies have earned several Get of Sire awards for Tuscan Gold and several Breeders Best Three awards for Bella Vita Ranch. Our client list for Tuscan Gold offspring includes prestigious and discriminating farms such as Snowmass Alpacas, AL Pacas, Safe Haven Farm, Red Granite Ranch, Snow Diamond Alpacas and others. Judges have also bred to Tuscan Gold, so he has that stamp of approval from those who should know! Tuscan descends from the award winning MFI Brock line which has produced multiple champion Tuscan siblings. If you are looking to add presence, style, fabulous elite fleece with an incredible hand and extreme brightness, total body coverage, and great heads to your alpacas, Tuscan is your guy. Give us a call to discuss this great male who has proven his prepotency through his offspring. Not only is he improving fleece, but he is fixing conformation issues, hardest of the two to correct. If you like champion huacayas with that teddy bear-look and fabulous bright, fine fleece, that's what he delivers.

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 AOA# 1197709 Light Fawn

Dam: Cocoa Puffe

Senior dam of color at Bella Vita Ranch

Cocoa Puffe

HuacayaBred (Female)Light Brown

AOA# 821850DOB: 7/14/200024 yrs

What a great producer this gal has been! She is of Australian/Chilean lineage, and she has produced multiple blue ribbon and color champion crias for us, many of whom remain here at Bella Vita for their genetic excellence. They have been a big part of our foundation herd. Cocoa Puffe has produced several silky style huacayas for us - Black Silk, Prosecco, and Perfect Storm, to name a few. We look so forward to her babies every year because they are so very stellar. We paid $16,000 for Chocolat when we first started in alpacas and have kept almost every one of her crias in our herd as foundation stock, and have sold her grandbabies and 1/2 interest in Prosecco and Corazon for sales of approximately $90,000 back to the ranch, so I think she has more than paid for herself. We have not seen Cocoa Puffe's pedigree in any other alpacas in the US (there may be a few, but they would be very rare), and Cocoa Puffe was a maiden when she came to us, pregnant with her first cria (Chocolat). She would be one we would have considered harvesting eggs from for IVF were it readily available and at a younger age for her. Cocoa Puffe produces crias who exhibit strong bone, complete fleece coverage that is dense, crimpy and fine. She had produced several black cria. Cocoa Puffe herself is light brown with black points and covered head to toes in dense fleece. She has a very laid back personality and is easy to handle. She is currently bred to Semper Fi for a June 2016 cria. Although she is an older female, she is still very healthy and reproductively sound.

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 AOA# 821850 Light Brown

Description

Perfect Storm is another fabulous Tuscan-Cocoa Puffe cria, whose color has been a subject of much debate, even with the judges. We think he is a wannabe gray as he has white fibers intermixed in his fleece but not enough to put him into indefinite or gray classes. The white fibers did not show up until he was about 2 years old. He only exhibited black and brown fibers. However, his neck and legs are dark silver gray. He most closely resembles dark rose gray in the blanket. Judge Mike Safley at 2011 GWAS tried hard to find white fibers, and after coming up empty, ended up placing Stormie 3rd but stating in his oral reasons that he didn't know what color Stormie was and that he was probably not on the color chart. Whatever his color, his fleece is STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL and very fine, especially for a dark colored fleece. Just like his full siblings, Prosecco and Black Silk, this guy is a nice, square framed alpaca with a beautiful head, total body coverage, and upright, bright attitude. His fleece has impressive character, is fine, uniform and crimpy. The brightness is evident, his sire’s trademark. And how shocked was I that his dark brown fleece returned the finest at 15.7 micron of the sample group I sent in for testing of the 2010 cria crop! He is as cute as he can be with a nice, easy going personality, his mother’s gift. Cocoa Puffe is the premier dam at Bella Vita for colored alpacas, and she has done it again. See her other offspring, the 2 listed above, along with Chia Pet, Chocolat, and another stellar herdsire we bred and still own, El Corazon`, an 8-time champion. In fact, most of Cocoa Puffe’s offspring have been champions, or at the very least consistent blue ribbon winners in level 5 shows. Sire Tuscan, our premier herdsire at Bella Vita, is also a multiple champion and is stamping his perfection on his crias with remarkable consistency. This male will do well with browns, blacks and grays to add fineness, brightness and character to the fleece. Both his paternal and maternal lines have produced superior blacks. UPDATE: Stormie is now a proven daddy. His first offspring was in 2014 and is beige Navigator, out of Nova's Novena, with 8-month histogram of AFD 14.6, SD 3.7 CV 25.5% (cria fleece with tips) CF 100%, curve 26.0 Dg/mm (silky style fleece), and staple 85.0 mm. The same cross produced Hail Mary In 2015 who is medium fawn in color and fleece that is iridescent, very organized into bundles and fine.

Awards

[2nd] 2nd place (out of 3) - 2013 ABR Fall Festival Fleece Roundup. Judge: William Cameron. Scored 19 out of 20 for fineness/handle, and judge's commets were "good fineness and hand".

[1st] 1st place (out of 1) - 2013 GWAS Fleece show Judge: Diana Timmerman

[5th] 5th place (out of 10) - 2013 GWAS Judge: Wade Gease

[2nd] 2nd place (out of 4) - 2013 Minnesota Alpaca Expo - Judge: Kristin Buhrmann

[3rd] 3rd place - 2012 GWAS Fleece Show Judge: Helen Humphreys

[3rd] 3rd place (out of 10) - 2012 ABR Fall Festival Fleece Harvest Judge Arturo Pena. Crescent Moon took 1st and 2nd in this class.

[1st] 1st place (out of 5)- 2012 MOPACA - Judge: Sharon Loner 2nd place in this class is our Luxor of FRA

[3rd] 3rd place (out o 8) - 2011 MOPACA - He was the baby in his class of 8. Nice start for his show career.

[3rd] 3rd place (out of 7) - 2011 GWAS. Judge: Kristin Buhrmann

[3rd] 3rd place (out of 8) - 2011 AOBA. He was the baby again in his class. Judge: Mike Safley

[RC] [1st] 1st and RCC - 2011 ABR Fall Festival Fleece show Judge: Kevin O'Leary

Purchase Terms

Updated 1/15/2016

Offspring

Wonderful bay black jr. herdsire

Boo Koo Buckaroo di Bella Vita

Jr. Herdsire (Male)10 yrsBay Black

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Hail Mary

Open (Female)9 yrsMedium Fawn

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