Update: Primus is a grey maker! He has made grey even with brown and bay black girls without the grey parents. He has also made gorgeous blacks. One just born from a bay black girl looks just like him. He was born on August 1st 2024. Color Champion at 41.5 mths!! Judges have really liked him but CC has been going to the much younger animals. The fact that he is still so soft with consistency and long staple AS A BREEDER along with perfect conformation was appreciated! See his stats. only 2.6 micron difference between min and max micron!!! Primus has a very buttery handle to his fleece due to the consistency of his fine fiber and density. His yarn is incredibly soft-like a white cria fleece! His sire BMF Taos Zepplin is known for putting out blacks. He was the 2013 AOBA Black Male Fleece Champion. His histogram stats are very impressive starting with a 15.7 AFD and a 2.8 S.D. on his first fleece and at 5 yrs old still had a 20.4 micron and a CV of 19.9. I fell in love with PHA Peruvian Taos (his sire) when he was here in Wisconsin. Judge stated at the recent MOPACA show that he was a very close second and was very impressed with his long, healthy fleece that hand an excellent handle, something not often seen in greys to that extent. He has been showing as a 40 mth old this year and has had very limited competition yet had super nice comments from the judges that included "I doubt that there is a more robust male out there", "very little difference in micron throughout fleece", "perfect phenotype", "extreme staple especially given his age". Primus' first offspring is a black male from a black female. Super fine, dense fleece! Primus is going back to Nationals in 2020. He'll be 4 yrs and 4 mths old (52 mths) but I honestly can't see that his fleece has changed in the last 2 yrs! We have bred him a couple times for 2020 cria. We should have entered him in the mature males. Thought his retained fineness and no guard hairs would impress the judge, they did but she didn't take into account his being 1 1/2 yrs older than the others. Walking fleece he took 3rd! He is such a sweet, easy to handle guy.

Greysie has a very shy and sweet personality. She loves to run with our cria. The staple length on this girl is phenominal. The crimp was a low frequency high amplitude style as a weanling but has now become my favorite type with the high frequency and high amp. Very shiny, ultra fine and her density is VERY nice! We will be keeping her around for some time to help add more grey to our herd. Adonis has made grey the majority of the time when bred to grey so he had the honor this year. She took on her first breeding! Should be a fantastic offspring! Her fleece, though never sent in for histogram, is estimated to be 16-17 micron max. Several hand spinners think so and her yarn is definitely they finest on the farm and a gorgeous color. Greysie had an Adonis offspring named Rugby. She is a great producer-birthed textbook worthy and has enough milk where he gained at least a pound a day in the beginning. He is the largest cria this year but not the oldest. He is a bay black Adonis look-a-like so very handsome. Her fleece character did not come in until her second year and then was really incredible just like her sire Revelation. Rugby's fleece seems to be super fine, has great length and shine but not a whole lot of character just yet. I'll bet he would show very well fall of 2015 though! We paired Greysie with our Royal Adonis son Wrangler who also shares a dense fine fleece but in the rose grey color. They had a very nice light fawn (like her dam)male named Wrangler's Armstrong. Check him out. Greysie was bred to Seismic and they made a gorgeously silver, dense, bundly grey male named Seismic's Seriously Silver. He will get his page shortly. Will probably repeat that breeding if I sell more girls. I already have his sire and several black and grey males so that smart thing to do is sell Greysie with male cria on the side. I just can't right now though. I really need to see this fleece! All or girls come with a breeding and we finance if needed. Greysie's boy from 2018 took 2nd at Nationals in a large class and continued to take 1st places at the other shows with one 2nd place. Greysie did not maintain her last pregnancies due to low progesterone. She is one a supplement of it now and is pregnant by Seismic again. I so want a female version of Seriously Silver a.k.a. Spot. Spot is such a calm sweet male who stepped into breeding this summer so next year we should have a few of his babies.