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Bogarts River Athena
Huacaya, Female, Proven | White
ARI# 35048053, D.O.B. 4/1/2014,
Sire: MSA Hemingway's Bogart_deleted_1/7/2024 8:44:39 PM ARI#
828970 White What can you say about Hemingway's Bogart other than he is renowned, WAS a one of a kind potent herdsire. Bogie's EPDs rival the best in the world. Bogart could challenge any young stud head to head for histogram results. After 18 years, his longevity is exemplary with his 2019 histogram at 22 AFD and an SD of 4.0 and CV of 17. Bogart is the direct descendant and on of Sire MSA Hemingway G171.
We are very proud to have added this Hemingway son, to our small but genetically mighty white alpacas. Bogie is renowned for his remarkable, and extremely rare, combination of flawless fine fleece, genetic superiority and flawless fineness sustained thus far to the end of his second decade. He passed all this fleece trait production to his offspring.
Compare Bogie to any male alpaca in AOA's EPD database and you will find he is superior to over 99% of all other for longevity of fineness and uniformity. Not only is Bogie superior, but because of his longevity as a herdsire, his accuracy values for each EPD trait is the highest in the database. This insures for you the customer, will be getting the improvement you expect. To go along with his outstanding EPDs, his follicle biopsy results insures density in his offspring. At age 12 he carries a DENSITY OF 60.4/MM, SECONDARY TO PRIMARY RATION OF 10.8:1 AND MEAN SECONDARY FIBER DIAMETER OF 21 AND STANDARD DEVIATION OF 2.5. Imagine what he was like at 2 years of age.
BOGART IS OFFICIALLY RETIRED. IT IS TOO UNCOMFORTABLE TO BREED. HE HAS BEEN SUCH A SPECIAL ALPACA TO DAVE AND I. WE WISH WE COULD CLONE HIM.
Dam: El Bello's Alexa ARI#
31397308 Medium Fawn 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.
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Service Sire: Majestic's A Man Among Men ARI#
35293538 Beige FOR SALE, 50% OWNERSHIP IN MAJESTIC'S MAN AMONG MEN!!!! Majestic's Man, a Jumanji son, has it all. This pre-potent male now has 28 offspring. Most importantly a long winning show record for Man and his offspring for both fleece and halter. Man's show record as a juvenile is unmatched, starting with the 2016 Futurity and ending with being in the running for Supreme Champion at the 2017 AOA Nationals.
Majestic's Man's fleece density is likely in the top 100 alpacas in the AOA database. His 2022 fleece weighed in at 14.5 pounds. This trait of density is definitely passed on to his offspring. His fleece weight EPD is 1.25%. Now, having had many offspring of Man's in my herd, I can assure anyone interested in breeding that he will produce density in all his cria. One of his offspring, Rockstar's Material Girl took all the top fleece honors at the Gold Country Gathering in 2021.
Majestic's Man's fiber and phenotype are all Jumanji. The only difference is his fiber is light, but don't let the light fiber shy you away, there is ample color in his background. Man has been genetically color tested and those results are available upon request. During his show career, every time his fleece was shown it was classified as white, in halter beige.
Man's breeder Faye Farley of Majestic Meadows describes Man Among Men as having a "Breathtaking fleece and breathtaking phenotype". "An excellent combination for sure!" All you have to do is look at this fiber and you know he was destined for greatness. AOA agrees by giving Man a first place in white male juvenile fleece in 2016 AOA National Fleece show. The most striking quality is his uniformity. We purchased him on the spot and then he went into the show ring at six months. He won first for light and color champion in a very large 2016 field of alpacas.
Description
Athena is presently being bred to Majestic's A Man Among Men. Athena's 2017 cria was out of Majestic's A Wanted Man, and this cria is a dream juvenile. Her fiber is lustrous, fine with a handle to die for. I expect the same from her present breeding to A Wanted Man's brother, A Man Among Men.
Athena is out of Alexa, who we purchased for her world class EPD for fineness and Staple Length. The pairing with Bogart has proved to give Athena EPDs that are some very respectable trait numbers. Athena lineage is the "whose who" in genetics. Her mother Alexa, is out of the late El Bello. Bogart and El Bello may be considered two of the most prolific and gifted breeding male studmasters. Athena was born running, she is very athletic, of good bone mass, and even at birth her conformation was ideal. Athena has greatness in her future as a foundation female. She would be an asset to improve any herd.
Athena will remain a foundation female for Colusa Riverside unless the buyer comes with an offer we could not refuse. Athena is that valuable as a production dam. Take a look at her EPDs, they are exemplary in 5 traits and overall outstanding in every trait. She has no one trait that diminishes her genetic worthiness as a breeding dam. Athena has the ideal combination of fineness and increased fiber weight.
EPDS: 2017
Trait Value Acc Rank Rank%
AFD -1.516 0.501 2,363 of 42,558 5.56% Top 10%
SDAFD -0.396 0.501 2,930 of 42,558 6.89% Top 10%
SF -1.505 0.541 2,571 of 42,558 6.05% Top 10%
%F>30 -5.519 0.545 2,835 of 42,558 6.67% Top 10%
MC 4.002 0.493 1,958 of 42,558 4.61% Top 5%
SDMC 1.394 0.52
%M -0.113 0.434 22,433 of 42,558 52.72%
MSL -0.009 0.428 21,583 of 42,558 50.72%
FW 0.183 0.394 15,850 of 42,558 37.25%
BW -0.133 0.222
Awards
Second Place Juvenile White Females, Gold Country Gathering 2014