Huacaya, Herdsire (Male), Unproven | Light Rose Grey

Description

Smoke Ring is the answer to a question we had not previously asked of Ring of Fire: could he throw a rose grey? The answer it would seem was an emphatic "yes!"

Smoke Ring's dam, Maid Marian, has the trivial distinction of being one of only two production age grey foundation females in our herd (the other is her daughter, Annabeth). She was brought into the fold 9 years ago, originally to breed with Legacy Gold. It is not a coincidence that 6 of her kids have held down slots on their birth class's respective show strings. Though we love Smoke Ring's dam and all that she does for us, the reality is that we do not generally speaking choose to define ourselves by the grey alpacas which we produce. Were this magnificent young male to stay here into adulthood there would technically be a grand total of 3 grey females for him to breed with, and two of them would be his dam and his maternal sister, the other is his paternal sister.

Though also available for sale (you can see his listing in the "Alpacas for Sale section of our web site), we are also making him available for outside stud service this coming breeding season and would argue that the combination of his phenotype and fiber characteristics (17.3 AFD at age 2) puts him in fairly exclusive company for a grey Herdsire.