CHAMPION sire!
Green Vale Darla
HuacayaOpen (Female)Beige
AOA# 1373325DOB: 7/1/200519 yrs
From a Champion sire, Darla has a strong pedigree. Darla is a great mother with good bone and a sweet personality. She is 'pretty as a picture' in your pasture - and will produce ciras to be proud of.
Get a 'rainbow' of alpaca colors! Registered as beige, Darla is almost a light fawn, with the color pattern ('varigated' and darker along the topline, shading to a white belly) that top grey breeder, Dr. Neil Padgett of A Paca Fun Farm in Maryland, says tends to produce grey. A Paca Fun has produced numerous Champion greys over the past 14 years, so we tend to trust Dr. Padgett's opinion.
According to Dr. Andy Merriwhether PhD, a geneticist and alpaca breeder, Darla carries the black gene from her mom, and will produce black. Other experienced breeders say you can expect the full spectrum of alpaca colors from a female like Darla (depending on which male she is bred to, of course).
Pedigree:
This pedigree is full of color. Darla's sire, CB Basillio is a son of 4Peruvian Wira Cocha and out of daughter of Kenamori Gold - two males retained by Earlah Swift for Mariah Alpacas. Along with 4Peruvian White Wizzard and PPP Inca, these males were the kingpin's of the Mariah Alpacas herd. Basillio's dam, PPPeruvian Gigi, well known for her exceptional beauty, was one of the best producers for the Mariah herd.
Darla's dam is the beautiful BLACK Skyeview Sabra, full sister to the stunning 2X Champion Skyeview Stargazer. Sabra has produced some lovely crias for Green Vale, with soft-as-silk fleeces.
Most of Sabra's crias have been 'black black': true 'jet-black' non-fading with no other colors in the blankets. Darla has an interesting pattern that suggests that she would easily produce grey offspring! With a true black dam, the color possibilites with Darla are endless...