3 Top EPDs! #589 in SL!

Columbia Mist Zacheo's Dena

Alpaca, Huacaya, Open (Female) | White

Dam: Columbia Mist Commodore's Corina

Retirement Sale! Top 4% FW EPD

Columbia Mist Commodore's Corina

HuacayaOpen (Female)White

AOA# 31492157DOB: 9/2/200816 yrs

Make us an offer that we can't refuse on one or more alpacas during our Retirement Herd Dispersal Sale! A beautiful large fine-boned girl who has good genetics. She has four generations of all white ancestors since records were kept after importation to the U.S. On the top side she has Caligula as a great-grandsire. On the bottom side she has Blockbuster from Magical Farms. Her 2011 fiber sort indicated a 7 out of 10 for brightness, with density of 8 out of 10 and fleece exhibits a moderate amplitude and high frequency crimp of 10-11 crimps per in. with uniformity being a 8.5 out of 10) extremely uniform primaries and secondaries aligning nicely. She produced 55.0 oz of worsted and woolen grade 3 & 4 in her blanket and 26.0 of the same in her neck. Her staple length is 3.5 to 4 inches. Her son out of Dionysus' Zacheo- Traffic Jam was in the top 1% for staple length and ranked #106 out of 19,048 males in the national herd in 2015. Corina's EPD Results - 2017 She has been a good producer of top EPD offspring. She holds down the top 4% in the national herd for fleece weight, top 10% for staple length and top 14% for standard deviation or uniformity. Trait/ Value/ Accuracy/ National Herd Ranking AFD/ 0.203/ 0.529/ 32,144 of 42,559/ 75.53%/ SDAFD/ -0.297/ 0.529/ 5,888 of 42,559/ 13.84%/ Top 15% SF/ 0.154/ 0.594/ 30,674 of 42,559/ 72.08% %F>30/ 1.917/ 0.596/ 36,534 of 42,559/ 85.85% MC/ 0.387/ 0.514/ 18,450 of 42,559/ 43.36% SDMC/ -0.217/ 0.546/ %M/ 0.192/ 0.437/ 27,182 of 42,559/ 63.87% MSL/ 2.185/ 0.442/ 4,094 of 42,559/ 9.62%/ Top 10% FW/ 0.688/ 0.405/ 1,647 of 42,559/ 3.87%/ Top 5% BW/ 0.756/ 0.13/ 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 us to learn more about using EPDs. We have been using them to improve our herd since 2008.

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 AOA# 31492157 White

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Dena is a beautiful girl with a large frame and typey head and perfect bite. She has good genetics! She has four generations of all white ancestors going back to when records were kept after the importation to the U.S. Starting from her father's side her grand sire is My Accoyo Peruvian Dionysus great grand sire is PPperuvian Mr. President and great great grand sires are 4Peruvian Presidente and Peruvian Hemingway. On her mother's side is great grand sire Caligula's Accoyo The Admiral who sheared a wopping 17 lbs. of fiber in his prime and great great grand sire Peruvian Caligula. She has good fiber coverage that is soft to the touch and is in the top 1% of the national female herd for SD on Curvature, top 2% for fleece weight , top 6% for lack of medullation, top 12% for staple length and still better than the national average for fineness! Her 2014 fiber sort showed Grade 1-2 Secondaries and Grade 2-3 Primaries, 9 out of 10 on brightness, 3.5 out of 5 for density, 6.5 out of 8 for uniformity of micron with moderate amplitude, medium 5-6 crimps per inch, 3.5 out of 5 for handle and 8 out of 10 for lack of guard hair. She had 72.4 oz. of WL 1-2 on her blanket and 19.4 oz. WL 1-2 of sorted fiber on her neck. Sorter commented that her fleece was bright with a soft hand. Dena's EPD Results - 2017 Ranked #589 for Fleece Weight out of 42,559 Females in the Nat. Herd! Trait/ Value/ Accuracy/ National Herd Ranking AFD/ -0.284/ 0.481/ 18,724 of 42,559/ 44% SDAFD/ -0.088/ 0.48/ 18,016 of 42,559/ 42.34% SF/ -0.242/ 0.534/ 19,646 of 42,559/ 46.17% %F>30/ -1.669/ 0.538/ 17,967 of 42,559/ 42.22% MC/ 0.504/ 0.468/ 17,211 of 42,559/ 40.45% SDMC/ 1.1/ 0.499/ %M/ -3.211/ 0.396/ 2,506 of 42,559/ 5.89%/ Top 10% MSL/ 3.118/ 0.398/ 1,981 of 42,559/ 4.66%/ Top 5% FW/ 0.856/ 0.365/ 589 of 42,559/ 1.39%/ Top 5% BW/ 0.862/ 0.089/ 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 us to learn more about using EPDs. We have been using them to improve our herd since 2008.

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Updated 10/21/2024