Alpaca Breeding Services
ABERCROMBIE
Breed: Huacaya
Color: Dark Rose Gray
Date of Birth: 7/22/2003
Dam: Miss Hillary
Sire: Silver Del Sol Codi G0602
ARI#: 1066623
Breedings: $ 2000.00 (Discounts for multiple breeding packages).
Abercrombie THA is a beautiful Rose Gray grandson of Accoyo's PPPeruvian Royal Fawn; PPPeruvian Royal Fawn was the 1999 and 2000 "Get-of-Sire" winner at the AOBA National Show, and record breaking highest selling male in the alpaca history in October, 2005 and The Silversmith HST G452 who is a very well known light silver gray impact sire.
Abercrombie is a big bold male with "stove pipe" leg coverage, good density and a captivating presence. He has perfect conformation and commands your attention the minute you enter the pasture. He has settled several females. His first cria Diamante is a medium silver gray. This is the male for your gray breeding program and is available year round for you convenience.
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GENERAL COTTON
Breed: Huacaya
Color: White
Date of Birth: 9/15/2004
Dam: PERUVIAN LIZBETH B4261
Sire: MSA HEMINGWAY'S TEQUILA
ARI#: 1359671
Breedings: $2500.00
General Cotton is a grandson of the world famous Peruvian hemingway G171 out of Studmaster male Hemingway's Tequila. Hemingway has over 600 ribbon winning offspring on the ground and is known around the world as a premier impact sire. General Cotton is a fantastic representation of his father and grandfather and is a "full Peruvian" male. He has a very low histogram numbers, which he comes by naturally. His mother PPeruvian Lizabeth B4261 micron count was 21.2 in 1992 and 23.1 in 2005. She has only moved 2 micron in 13 year of life! (Predisposition to fineness). He is dense and crimpy to the tip of his tail. His head is very typey with a perfect bite. He looks a lot like his grandpa Hemingway and his conformation is correct in every way.
Breeding your female with General Cotton will qualify you to participate in the National herd improvement program, the Ideal Alpaca Community. This National herd Improvement is run by Population Geneticist Dr. David Notter at Virginia Tech. university.
We have held General Cotton's stud fee to $2500.00 (with discounts for multiple breeding packages) in order to produce as many offspring as possible for the IAC program. The more participants in the program the more accurate the resulting data will be. As with most impact sires the stud fees will increase.
GENERAL COTTON - PRODUCTION HISTORY
2005
Micron Count: 18.10
Standard Deviation: 4.40
C of V/ Uniformity: 24.40
% Over 30 Microns: 1.40
Shear Weight: 4.20
2006
Micron Count: 19.11
Standard Deviation: 4.46
C of V/ Uniformity: 23.36
% Over 30 Microns: 1.78
We are proud to announce General Cotton EPD's.
General Cotton is a PERUVIAN HEMINGWAY G171 grandson and was sired by the pairing of the famous Studmaster™ male MSA HEMINGWAYS TEQUILA and full Peruvian female, PPERUVIAN LIZBETH B4261, who is predisposed to fineness as evidenced by her numerous fine fleeced cria.
Cotton is dense and crimpy from the top of his head to the tip of his tail. His head is very typey and shows off his perfect bite.
He has been evaluated and ranked by the Ideal Alpaca Community EPD program. Based on the statistics to date, as seen below, Cotton will “on average” reduce the micron count on his offspring by one and one half micron. (Compare to the IAC herd and Studmaster™ males)
General Cotton Fiber Diameter EPD: -1.5
Average Fiber Diameter EPD Ideal Alpaca Community Herd: -0.42
Average Fiber Diameter EPD StudMaster™ Males: -0.48
You can compare his rankings with the Studmaster™ “Trait Leaders” on the Ideal Alpaca Community (IAC) website and view females bred to him or schedule a breeding on our website Alpaca Spring Valley Farms.
We have held General Cotton's stud fee to $2500.00 (with discounts for multiple breeding packages) in order to produce as many offspring as possible for the IAC program. The more participants in the program the more accurate the resulting EPD data will be. As with most impact sires the stud fees will increase.