Another beautiful Cria
Rumor's Spring Eternal
Huacaya, Bred (Female), Unproven | White
ARI# 35530961, D.O.B. 2/5/2021,
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.
Dam: River's Rumor Has It ARI#
35038726 Light Fawn Rumor is the product of grandfather Apocalypse who has renowned EPD's and dam Stargazer's Angelina. Sire, Royal Rumble, is the offspring of 6PERUVIAN ROYAL GOLD 5002 IMPR98. Royal Gold was a prolific prepotent breeding fawn herd sire. We took a chance on her sire Stargazer's Royal Rumble with his good EPDs and histogram. Rumor has one of the best histograms on the farm and she has some very nice trait values across the spectrum of EPD traits. Her AFD at five is 20 with an SD of 4.0 and CV of 19. Rumor is proven X2 with no birthing issues and healthy cria.
Rumor's color is light fawn the the color looks like spun gold. Her Density is very good, staple is excellent and luster & brightness is great. What guard hairs she does have they are extremely fine. If she has a fault it would be the coverage on the face. I can live with that with the quality of fiber she is producing. I expect her fiber to be grade one far into the future. In visualizing her AFD in the 2021 cut my evaluation is again a grade 1.
Rumor has famous lineage on top and bottom. Grandfather El Bello, who is one of the most prolific Stud Masters of all. I love it when I find an alpaca with El Bello in a generation close to what I am buying. Father And Grandfather, Gold and Rumble's genetic profiles are amazing for fineness and uniformity of fineness. All her EPDs are incredibly desirable. We could not be more pleased with the selection of Royal Rumble to improve Angelina's offspring's fleece statistics and traits. Take a look at Rumor's well rounded EPDs, under the DNA icon on this page.
We at Colusa Riverside have improved our fineness to a significant degree with our 3rd, 4th & 5th generations of dams, we are now at grade 1 & 2 microns consistently in all offspring. We are now working on our uniformity of fineness as is evidenced in the histogram & EPD AFDSD. To us, it is much more important to have well rounded EPD profile across all traits. Having animals the 5% to 10% range is our goal, but these percentiles across the entire fleece versus having a 1% in just one or two fleece traits. So, Rumble does that for his offspring and now so will Rumor.
Rumor is being bred to Majestic's A Man Among Men who we hope he will pack on the density even more than Rumor already has. Man has significant color in his background so it would be nice to get color even though we are in a white breeding program, I just love fawns.
Description
Rumor's Spring Eternal is a nicely fleeced yearling. Her first Histogram came with an AFD of 24 microns as a juvenile. Not sure how this could happen given her Sire and especially her dam being in 1% for AFD. Her dam carries one of the finest fleeces on the farm. She has an exceptional SDAFD. I think maybe her nutrition might have been affected somehow. I expect her yearling fleece this spring will bring much better results for AFD. She does not carry the density of most of our dams. I
Springs EPDs are quite good with all but one in the 5-15% range. Totally respectable values for a breeding dam. Her accuracies are only between 1 to 2+. I cannot understand this accuracy given her genetics are all well-known and involve long lineages. Spring will be bred to Chateau Cerise to round out her EPD profile and add staple length to her offspring.
Awards
Second Place in Gold Country Gathering 2021, While Juvenile Female Halter
Second Place in Gold Country Gathering 2021, While Juvenile Female Walking Fleece