Avalon Farm Alpacas

SMKF Artilio's Priscilla Rose   

Medium Fawn, 850880, 3/4 Peruvian

Priscilla is a very pretty, strongly conformed female from the Peruvian Camelot line. We were fortunate enough to get her as a cria from Sleeping Monk Farm in NH with the intention of adding her to our foundation herd. However, we have reluctantly decided to offer Priscilla for sale in order to continue to make available good quality females to our customers.

In September, Priscilla gave birth to a very handsome, rich mahogany colored, son of our true black color champion, Lace's Peruvian Black Lance. This spectacular color is unlike anything we have seen in our crias previously. With PrimeTime's birth, Priscilla has continued to produce crias with deep colored fiber as she did with her dark brown 2006 daughter, Avalon's Primrose.

Now we are excited to see what she will produce with our ultra fine young herdsire, Andiamo. We look for this to be another nice cria.

Reduced Fall Special Price...$14,900

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UPDATE: First crias are here!

You won't believe your senses when you touch this fiber! The Hemingway line is known for producing lovely soft fiber with excellent hand and fineness. So, when we bred Bethany to Andean Dream we were hoping for a cria that would carry on that tradition of fineness...and Andiamo doesn't disappoint! His bright, pure white fiber melts in your hand. Wow!

He has a handsome head, straight conformation, and, of course, that fine, bright, crimpy fiber. Two samplings of his 2005 cria fleece verified that he produced an ultrafine, fabulously soft, fleece. Take a look at his 2005 histograms...AFD = 14.7 on the first sample and 14.4 AFD on the second! The 2007 histogram from his 3rd shearing still shows a fine fleece at 18.5 microns.

Not surprisingly, we want to retain partial ownership of Andiamo to use these incredible soft, fine fiber genes in our breeding program. However, we think this special young male has something to off