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Our Second 2009 Cria!

Allen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:28:09 +0000

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

Introducing Hillside’s Silver Ray

Allen — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:15:34 +0000

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 the 2009 PAOBA Breeders showcase

Allen — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:55:59 +0000

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.

We’ve chosen a cria name!

Allen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:10:26 +0000

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:

Cimarron
Sabre
Sir Tobias
Turbo
Chinoby
Zephyr
Chocolate Tasker
Eary
Thistle Son of Rose
Rupert (twice)
Ben
Steve
Jordan
Gismo
Lightning
Thunder
Burlap
Chocolate Chip
Moca
Brownie (three times)
Tootsie Roll (twice)
Chris
Peanut Butter Cup
Hershey
Chocolate Hershey
Ralphael
Dr. Mud (twice)
Barack
Joe Pye
Goldenrod
Cinnamon (twice)
Buttercup
Cromwell
Sallie
Rufus
Dufus
Lucky
Howey
Geppetto

Another new arrival

Allen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:22:49 +0000

Rose finally had her cria.? A nice little boy.? He was actually larger than Gaston at birth.? He looks to be about a medium brown.?

Rose & Cria

Now we need to come up with another cria name.

Lady Snowfox ROX finally has her cria

Allen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:22:23 +0000

? 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.

Snowfox with newborn

And later in the day.

Snowfox and baby

We are looking forward to a lot of opportunities to see him running the pasture this summer.