Stirling Ridge Kaeleigh

Congrats, mama! A MB girl!

Alpaca , Huacaya , Open (Female) |Proven |White

AOA# 36172436 | DOB: 6/17/2020 (3 yrs)

Sire: Grazing Hills BRADFORD

21.5 micron at 13 yrs, CF 95%!

Grazing Hills BRADFORD

Huacaya Herdsire (Male) Medium Fawn

AOA# 32173253 DOB: 6/26/201013 yrs

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| AOA# 32173253 | Medium Fawn

We are EXTREMELY happy to have acquired BRADFORD from Grazing Hills Alpacas! Bradford is the half brother of our dearly departed Dirk. Both are sons of Accoyo-America DIOMEDES who is now deceased. Diomedes imprinted his handsome head and his amazing fleece characteristics to these sons of his and for that reason we jumped at the chance to have another Diomedes boy on the farm! Bradford x Vanora = Kaeleigh: our first Bradford baby born on the farm June 2020. She's a beaut! Kaeleigh is so pretty we rebred Vanora to Bradford . . . and Kenzie . . . and Muireall . . . and Khloë! Three of those four have had their cria and they have GORGEOUS fleece! Many of our breedings will be to Bradford again. That's just how nice we think he is! Bradford has a beautiful head, nice bite, boxy conformation, wonderfully straight topline, super fleece characteristics. Handsome on all counts! He is an eager breeder, ready for action, and we are offering his drive-by breedings at $600. 2022 Expected Progeny Differences (EPD) results (at 12 YEARS!!): TOP 5% for AFD, —1.864: likely to decrease fiber diameter in offspring TOP 13% SDAFD, —0.407: likely to decrease standard deviation in offspring TOP 6.09% SF, —1.845 likely to decrease spin fineness in offspring TOP 9% %F>30, —6.013: likely to decrease fibers over 30 micron in offspring TOP 17% MC, 2.946: likely to increase mean curvature in offspring Ranked 36% for %M, -1.478, likely to decrease medullation in offspring Ranked 58% for MSL, -.621, likely to decrease staple length in offspring Ranked 68% for FW, 0.062, likely to increase fleece weight slightly in offspring Now that's what we call LINGERING FINENESS! Is it fineness you need? Then bring your girls over, especially your coarser girls with longer staple. With this guy, it's hard to imagine you won't get a better-fleeced cria from a breeding to Bradford! Discounts for multiple breedings.

Dam: Diomedes' VANORA of Stirling Ridge

14 yrs: 21 micron & TOP 1% EPD FL Wt

Diomedes' VANORA of Stirling Ridge

Huacaya Open (Female) White

AOA# 31414920 DOB: 9/19/200815 yrs

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| AOA# 31414920 | White

Vanora was bred last year to J Creek Passion Encore, a medium brown stud with an amazing EPD! She delivered a very lively little girl cria (yet unnamed) on 6/20/2023, with no assistance. This little one is pure snowy white! And with Vanora's EPD combined with Encore's EPD, we think this will be a baby with phenomenal fleece. She's been bred in the past to Grazing Hills Bradford and birthed a gorgeous girl in 2020 named Kaeleigh who just delivered her first medium brown baby, Bayleigh. They both have amazing fleece with the super inherited quality of lingering fineness. Kaeleigh was such a looker, we rebred Vanora to Bradford for a 2021 cria and she had a dandy gorgeous boy named Locksley who is really shaping up! LOOK at her latest EPD Report for 2022 (side bar)! Remember THIS GAL IS 14 YEARS OLD! What do all those 2022 EPD values mean for Vanora's cria? Top 14% in the nation! Avg Fiber Diameter (AFD) will likely decrease by -1.273, really good! Standard Deviation of AFD will decrease by -0.199, good! 30% in the nation! Top 12% in the nation! Spin Fineness (SF) will decrease by -1.364, excellent! Top 13% in the nation! % of Fibers > 30 micron will decrease by -5.196, amazing! Top 18% in the nation! Mean Curve (MC) of fiber will increase by 2.36, super! % Medullation (M) will decrease by -.474, (the full impact of medullation in fleece remains a question at this point in time.) Top 7.5% in the nation! Mean Staple Length (MSL) will increase by 2.408, wonderous! Top 0.23% in the nation! Fleece Weight (FW) will increase by 1.213, INCREDIBLE! What the EPD says is that Vanora is an superb animal with really excellent fleece traits and she passes these traits to her cria. Vanora took the BLUE in her age group for the 2010 AOBA National Spin-Off. Her 2 year histogram shows why: 17.2 3.5 20.7 CF 100%, Curve 47. Her 3rd year clip was 9.25 lbs. of 20 micron blanket! Fine micron with a heavy shear weight adds up to density. Sometimes I secretly wish she were a stud! We used Robyn Kuhl from Coarse Broads and the NAAFP cooperative to sort our fiber in 2011. Vanora scored a 9 for brightness and a 9 for uniformity, an 8 for density, and had a high secondary to primary ratio. Anything above 7 is above average. Vanora has presence, size, attitude, beautiful conformation, fabulous, lustrous, crimpy fleece. She's out of our best original dam, Kupcake (now deceased), and gorgeous sire Accoyo America Diomedes (now deceased) who leaves his signature "look" on his kids. She's our top notch foundation female and producing more top-notch foundation females. A keeper!

Service Sire: ANTONIO OF GOLDEN PINE

Grazing Hills Stud Muffin!

ANTONIO OF GOLDEN PINE

Huacaya Herdsire (Male) True Black

DOB: 6/22/201112 yrs

Voted most-likely to be our up and coming stud muffin. He is eye catching among the herd. Antonio of Golden Pine is a highly improved, calm, manageable true black herdsire who retains his dense, fine fiber. 2021 Histogram: AFD: 22.7 SD: 4.1 CV: 18.1 %>30: 4.5% 2020 Histogram: AFD: 19.9 SD: 5.0 CV: 25.4 %>30: 3.0 2017 AFD is 20.9. SD is 4.4 CV is 21.1 %>30 is 4.5 2016 AFD is 22.4 SD is 5.0 CV ...

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Price: $8000.00

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Her Scottish name, Kaeleigh, is pronounced Kaylee. This beautiful young lady is 3 and just had her first cria on 6/7/23, needing no assistance. It amazes me how the good Lord gave maternal instincts. She is a REALLY good momma and stands so still to allow her little GIRL to nurse. Kaeleigh was bred last spring to true black Antonio. What COLOR did we get?? She's a gorgeous medium brown with black extremities, exactly what we ordered! (Ha!) If she were a horse I'd call her a bay and so my husband suggested to name her Bayleigh. You can see some of her first baby steps in the video in the right column.

Look at Kaeleigh's EPD in the side bar! Fantastic fleece qualities! Not only is she in the top 18% of fineness (AFD & SF), but in the top 2% of staple length and the top 2% of fleece weight! Fineness + heavy fleece weight = density in my book!

Mama Kaeleigh just got sheared. I haven't had time yet to weigh all her fleece but I don't know that I've ever had an animal that sheared SO MUCH!

What do Kaeleigh's 2022 EPD stats mean? They indicate what she will likely contribute to fleece characteristics:
TOP 18% in the nation! Avg Fiber Diameter (AFD) will likely decrease by -1.109, very good!
TOP 28% in the nation! Standard Deviation of AFD will decrease by -0.217, good!
Top 11% in the nation! Spin Fineness (SF) will decrease by -1.12, nice!
Top 18% in the nation! % of Fibers > 30 micron will decrease by -4.123, amazing!
Mean Curve (MC) of fiber will increase by 1.124, super! (34%)
% Medullation (M) will increase by .217, (the full impact of medullation in fleece remains a question at this point in time.)
Top 2% in the nation! Mean Staple Length (MSL) will increase by 4.395, stunning!
Top 2% in the nation! Fleece Weight (FW) will increase by 0.867, nice!

Kaeleigh is from our foundation dam, Vanora, one of the best animals on our farm with year after year of phenomenal EPDs. Her sire is Grazing Hills Bradford, who also has great EPDs, especially for fineness. We expected that Kaeleigh would have nice fiber and she is showing us we were spot on!

She is pure white, she has a beautiful head and has shaped up well in the conformation department with straight topline and straight legs. Her fleece is exceptionally soft, L-O-N-G, and crimpy with HEAVY coverage. We are expecting her to develop into quite the queen and we plan (or you can plan!) to use her as a foundation dam. We have very high expectations in what she will produce for the farm.

Scientific Data

Date	Details/Notes
06/02/2021	16.8 4.0 23.8 0.8>30 SF 16.7 CF 99.2, staple 122mm, Curve 48.7, sheared 4.58 lbs
06/07/2022	19.6 4.4 22.3 3.0>30 SF 19.3 CF 97%, staple 129m, Curve 50.9, sheared 7.05 lbs.
06/03/2023	22.4 4.8 21.5 SF 21.9 CF 93.4, staple 108mm, curve 49.9, sheared 8.875 lbs

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Updated 9/2/2023