Our Second 2009 Cria!
Rose had her cria on Monday, 9/21/09.? A very pretty multi boy.? He has been putting on weight nicely.
Rose's 2009 multi cria
Rose's 2009 multi cria
Rose had her cria on Monday, 9/21/09.? A very pretty multi boy.? He has been putting on weight nicely.
Rose's 2009 multi cria
I’ve been meaning to post this introduction since soon after MAPACA as that’s when we purchased him.? Currently we’re only breeding suris but there are some huacayas that you just love to look at, and Silver Ray is one of them.? He actually took fouth in a class of ten at MAPACA so others think he’s a nice boy too.? His personality seems to lend itself more to the obstacles than Gaston’s does, so we’re planning to have the boys work with him and they can do the obstacles with him next show season.
Hillside's Silver Ray
His fiber is so soft and fluffy that Kelly is really looking forward to getting to spin with it.? And of course his grey color is a great benefit.? Who knows, if he does good at the shows next year maybe we’ll have to get some huacaya females to use for breeding.
Gaston takes 2nd in class at 2009 PAOBA
Sir Gaston ROX recieved a second place in his class at the 2009 PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase in York, PA.? He was placed in the medium fawn class at this show.? The class had six other nice suri alpacas in it for a total of seven in the class.? The judge liked his fineness, density and consistency of lock over the third place.? In fact that only thing that placed the first place alpaca above Gaston was the bone structure.? The first place alpaca was a little more heavily boned.
After the cl;ass a much more experienced suri breeder stopped us with the first place alpaca and felt that Gaston had more density than the first place alpaca.? His comments confirmed a lot of what we think about Gaston.
His last and final show of the season will be the 2009 National Show in Cleveland, Ohio.? He’ll be remaining in full fleece until then and we’re planning to hand shear him soon after he returns home.
Cimarron and Rose
We’ve finally made a decision on the name for the cria.? The suggestion came from J.R. of East Berlin for ‘Cimarron’.? The full registered name that we will be using will most likely be ‘Rose’s Cimarron ROX’.? Some other favorites were ‘Sir Tobias’ and ‘Sabre’.
We would like to thank everyone that participated with their suggestions for the cria name, as well as everyone that came to visit during our open house, some people braved some really lousy weather.
Here is a list of all of the suggestions:
? We just had another exciting day at Big Rock Alpaca farm, although not quite as much work as last Friday was.? Snowfox finally had her first cria.? It’s a little boy and he’s doing just fine.? We’re not quite sure what color he is, probably light fawn with really dark pigmentation.? His sire is black after all.? We have not decided on a name yet.
Here is Snowfox with the baby only a couple minutes old.
And later in the day.
We are looking forward to a lot of opportunities to see him running the pasture this summer.
