3 traits in the top 1%

Alexa as a cria with black mom

Documents

Grade 1 fineness at age 11.
El Bello's Alexa

Huacaya, Female, Proven | Medium Fawn

ARI# 31397308, D.O.B. 8/3/2008,


Sire: El Bello ARI# 801133  
Dam: VIAC CAZIE ARI# 813241 True Black  

Description

This girl has vicuna looking and feeling fiber. She caries Grade 1 fiber through ll years. We purchased Alexa as a foundation dam of ultra fine fiber. She is now one of many females on our ranch with exceptionally fine fiber and the EPDs to produce offspring with ultra fine fiber. An important reason for our adding Alexa to our foundation herd is her Staple Length and Fiber weight EPDs are good, giving no loss of SL while improving fineness. Alexa has the ideal genetic picture, improve fineness and staple length together, that is a difficult thing to accomplish in the world of breeding, but Alexa does this. Alexa also has color in her background, her dam was black. This makes her AFD even more amazing.

Alexa's Histogram for 2019 is amazing. She caries in her genetics extreme longevity of fineness. When they coined the term foundation dam she is one of the elite type the word signifies. We at Colusa Riverside are so blessed to have this girl in our foundation.

Alexa's sire was El Bello and was most likely responsible for her outstanding fiber stats. El Bello is probably one of the most potent and prolific Stud masters of all the first import progeny. Alexa is in the top 1% club for ARI in three fiber traits. When we see El Bello in the heritage of an alpaca we know the animal will carry genetics for longevity of fineness. At age 11 years after 5 crias she has unbelievably soft fiber with an AFD of 20 microns. It is unusual to have an alpaca in the 1% club for one fiber trait let alone three traits.

Look under DNA icon on this page for most recent E.P.D.

Awards

EPD 2017 Summary
Trait Value Acc Rank Rank%
AFD -2.407 0.541 164 of 42,558 0.39% Top 1%
SDAFD -0.465 0.54 1,619 of 42,558 3.81% Top 5%
SF -2.472 0.588 151 of 42,558 0.36% Top 1%
%F>30 -8.087 0.591 272 of 42,558 0.64% Top 1%
MC 3.328 0.53 3,056 of 42,558 7.19% Top 10%
SDMC 1.996 0.558
%M 0.435 0.234 29,912 of 42,558 70.29%
MSL 0.985 0.46 10,653 of 42,558 25.04%
FW -0.198 0.418 39,782 of 42,558 93.48%
BW -0.262 0.143