Make us an offer that we can't refuse on one or more alpacas during our Retirement Herd Dispersal Sale! Only $500 down on Emelio and you can start breeding some great genetics into your herd. Then pay $500 per breeding or $2500 per year for two years, whichever is more until he is paid off. You will need to fully insure him for his outstanding balance each year. Emelio is the complete light fawn package of great conformity, excellent fleece and great temperment. At his first halter show the judge said that his fleece was the finest and best handle he had seen in the ring from black thru the fawns! He has one small brown spot on his neck. His pedegree runs deep with PCA Accoyo El Nino as grandsire, Pperuvian Caligula & PCA Peruvian Microsoft as great-grandsires and Pperuvian Camilio as great-great grandsire on his father's side. On his mother's side he has CAA Duncan as grandsire and Pperuvian Vengador as great grandsire. His 2014 fiber sort showed Grade 2-3 Secondaries and Grade 3-4 Primaries, 8 out of 10 on brightness, 4 out of 5 for density, 7 out of 8 for uniformity of micron with moderate amplitude, medium 6-7 crimps per inch, 4 out of 5 for handle and 8 out of 10 for lack of guard hair. He had 54.5 oz. of WL 2-3 on his blanket and 47.0 oz. WL 2-3 of sorted fiber on his neck. Sorter commented that his fleece had a lovely hand and uniform S/P. EPD Results - 2017 As of his 9th shearing, Emelio is in the top 5% in lack of medulation. He is in the top 11% for uniformity of fiber, spin fineness and fineness, fibers over 30M and the top 22% in curvature and still in the to 46% for FW. If you need to make improvements in any of these characteristics in your females, Emelio would be an excellent choice for a colored breeding herd sire purchase especially due to his genetics, conformation and temperament. Trait/ Value/ Acc/ Rank/ Rank% AFD/ -1.34/ 0.532/ 2,524 of 22,959/ 11%/ Top 15% SDAFD/ -0.384/ 0.53/ 2,324 of 22,959/ 10.13%/ Top 15% SF/ -1.393/ 0.615/ 2,373 of 22,959/ 10.34%/ Top 15% %F>30/ -5.25/ 0.617/ 2,392 of 22,959/ 10.42%/ Top 15% MC/ 1.929/ 0.512/ 5,123 of 22,959/ 22.32%/ Top 25% SDMC/ 1.236/ 0.549/ %M/ -3.766/ 0.348/ 1,049 of 22,959/ 4.57%/ Top 5% MSL/ -4.232/ 0.44/ 22,274 of 22,959/ 97.02% FW/ 0.181/ 0.408/ 10,623 of 22,959/ 46.27% BW/ -0.124/ 0.159/ Whether you are interested in purchasing high quality alpacas for breeding, show, fiber or selecting a herd sire to breed to, you should use Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) as your most important selection tool in addition to evaluating phenotype and genetics. Our herd has some of the highest EPD accuracy ratings due to breeding some of the best genetics and due to the shear number of these genetics in the EPD database. Consequently you can also increase the probability of creating ideal offspring with up to 95% accuracy. Contact