100% SM Genetics - Loro Piana G’dtr!

Man in the Moon’s Rock Soleil

Alpaca, Huacaya, Open (Female) | Medium Fawn

Dam: Snowmass Bells of Piana

Loro Piana + Defiance & Best Man!

Snowmass Bells of Piana

HuacayaBred (Female)Beige

AOA# 35528845DOB: 8/30/20186 yrs

As her name suggests, Bells is a Snowmass Loro Piana daughter, and she is out of a Snowmass Defiance daughter. Then add a little Snowmass Best Man and a little Snowmass Sub-Zero! That’s what this girl’s got! Incredible genetics there! Bells' phenomenal herdsire, Snowmass Loro Piana, is in the top 1% EPD's for AFD & SF, and top 10% for SDAFD. Loro Piana was the best producer of fineness at Snowmass, and it is a lasting fineness – he had a 16 micron fleece at age five. Bell's has produced three gorgeous crias thus far. She stamps her head and frame onto each of them, along with a beautiful crimp style and excellent density. She has plenty of milk and she is an excellent mama. We're expecting another stellar cria in Spring of 2025 from our Irish Meadows' Reputation son, Corteva. Corteva has spectacular fleece, and he's a 9X Champion and Judges Choice winner, too! Bell's latest cria, Castor, arrived on 11/4/23 -- dark fawn male that looks pretty darn promising! His fleece may be the brightest ever produced here. While we agreed to sell him, we hope to still show him, and we have also retained breeding rights. DEFINITELY going to repeat this breeding, but she's been bred to our newest herdsire, Corteva, for her Spring 2025 cria. Bells' 2022 cria arrived on 10/2/22 and he's gorgeous!! Her cria, Iapitus, has an extremely dense and curly fleece with those little rolls down the back of his neck! And he has great bone... and that gorgeous head. Bells of Piana delivered a beautiful fawn female cria out of Snowmass Rock Solid on 7/7/21. She caught the eye of a n excellent farm in Switzerland, but we weren't quite ready to let her go.

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 AOA# 35528845 Beige

Description

We're reluctantly parting with this lovely girl. Thank you and congratulations to Ken & Shelley DeVault for your purchase. Can't wait to see what Soleil and Ganymede produce! Soleil is turning out quite nicely! Her fleece is fine with a very nice high frequency crimp — and her staple length is exemplary! We completed shearing on April 18 and her fleece impressed me all over again. The fleece we sheared off of this girl is one of the heaviest, longest, and finest on the farm with beautiful staples and a strong and crimpy architecture! She’s also quite a personable girl. We love it when an alpaca is equally valuable as a breeder and as an ambassador of the breed in our agritourism program. In 2 of her 3 shows, the judge indicated that her fleece is equal to those above her but her placement was based on her relative size. She has a compact but sturdy frame and we have no doubt Soleil is built well for production! Her sire, Snowmass Rock Solid, is a brown male who does not carry dilution. Lynn Edens said of her parent's breeding: “There’s a high likelihood of a fawn cria from this pairing and it should be a really nice one with good density, fineness and brightness as it develops, as these traits are coming from both sides. Rock Solid is putting a, ahem, rock-solid frame on his crias also – you can pick them out in the field by eye.” Soleil's dam is our Bells of Piana, an exemplary Loro Piana daughter. Snowmass Loro Piana, named after the famous luxury textile designer, Loro Piana, was the first in the Snowmass program to produce a fleece finer than Vicuna! The Snowmass longtime goal of producing a high curvature fleece with fineness, brightness, and staple length was realized in this remarkable stud. He is quite literally the embodiment of everything the Snowmass program desired in White Huacaya, and is celebrated among their highest achievements in breeding for Ultra Royal Alpaca. His first histogram showed an extreme fineness sf 10.8 of microns, SD of 2.8, 0.3%>30 with a curvature of 67. Snowmass Loro Piana was also biopsied as a 21 month old white male showing a density of 115.25 follicles per SQ MM of skin! Soleil will be ready to breed in 2023. We're planning to breed her to Man in the Moon's Rigel, a 5X Champion male; however, another good choice would be Man in the Moon's Peruvian Ganymede, an multi-Champion and 4X Judges Choice male including the AOA National Supreme Champion. Purchase her before she's bred and you can choose any MMFA herdsire.

Awards

4th Place - 2022 Buckeye Fall Fest - Fawn Yearling Halter - Judge Helen Testa

4th Place - 2022 Carolina Alpaca Parade - Fawn Juvie Halter - Judge Laurel Shouvlin

4th Place - 2022 Carolina Alpaca Celebration - Fawn Juvie Halter - Judge Arturo Peña

Third Place - 2022 Heart of Virginia Show - Fawn Juvie Halter - Judge Arturo Peña

Updated 11/1/2023