The results came back from the skin biopsy which are very favourable: Below is a write up from Jim Watts, MV. Sc, Ph.D: He is a rather special male!!! Jim Watts analysis: The 14 month old alpaca, FDA Rembrandt, has high levels of fiber density and fiber length. The density reading of 67.7 follicles per square millimeter will be lower when the animal reaches mature body size, but not sufficient to alter the fact that it is a high density animal. This view is supported by the high level of secondary follicle development that has occurred - a secondary follicle to primary follicle ratio of 13.5 to 1 is exceptional for an alpaca. The primary fibers and secondary fibers are fine in diameter (means of 24.5 microns and 17.6 microns respectively) and very uniform in diameter (standard deviations of fiber diameter of 2.9 microns respectively). Note the low level of medullation (13%) in the secondary fiber population - a feature that is sought and only accompanies alpacas with a very fine and uniform fleeces. The fibers are growing in length at the fast rate of 0.55 millimeters per day.

Juliette has been and will continue to be an important quality dam in our breeding program. Juliette makes the needed addition to our foundation with her lineage, fiber quality and EPD package. She is progeny of Derwydd El Nino's Accoyo Manchu and will again be bred to our Majestic's "Man". Her last cria is a big beautiful girl. When we want to bring in outside genetics for any given fiber trait, Juliette is our go to girl. She is a great mother, breeds easily, holds her weight, and will nurse other's crias. Her daughter Destony also inherited this valuable nursing trait. Juliette also brings the trifecta of desired fiber traits to her offspring. Those are fineness, uniformity of fineness, and staple length, both pheno-typically and in her EPDS. Genetically, she will improve her progeny's fiber traits in every value. Juliette's fiber weight EPD is in the 5 percentile at +0.777, which indicates her offspring will have nearly a pound more fiber than Juliette. Juliette has given us 3 foundation offspring and one herdsire. Each have beautiful fiber, no conformation faults and she is turning out to be one our most valuable foundation dam. Juliette is of substantial stature and bone. This will be a positive characteristic for her breeding longevity. She should have years more of production. All of Juliette's offspring have done well in the show ring with one making a respectable showing at the 2015 Futurity. A look at Juliette's histogram shows she has some exceptional fiber character traits. Her staple length is quite good. It does no good to have fine fiber is it's length is so short as to make it impossible to truly utilize. Juliette last cria, Rembrandt's River Wild is out of FDA Rembrandt by El Nino, whose EPD for SD is in the 1% club, so this pairing has resulted in superior EPDs in this offspring. Juliette's fiber trait EPD values are overall better than about 90% of the national herd. It is one thing to have these superior traits in one trait but not in 6 traits.