Description: One of the stars of our herd, Silhouette is a truly stunning dark fawn beauty with unbelievable fiber. Rarely does fleece top the charts in character, density, fineness and crimp all at the same time, but this girl's fleece has it all. Evidently, the judges agree, awarding her eight banners, 16 blue ribbons, a Judge's Choice and other assorted awards before she retired from the show ring.
Silhouette's success in the show ring is backed by statistics. Check out these fiber stats for a dark animal more than five years of age and bearing crias: 19.7, 3.9, 20.0 and 1.6. Wow!
In addition to her impressive histogram numbers, Silhouette's skin biopsy shows that she has 84 follicles per sq. mm of skin, indicating extremely dense fiber. To put that number in perspective, Dr. Norm Evans, who analyzed the skin biopsy, wrote, "the average for huacayas is about 39.75," and "superior breeding stock that seem to win in the show ring is 55-60+."
Silhouette's biopsy also shows a ratio of secondary to primary fibers of 18 to 1, compared to the average S/P ratio in the alpacas that Dr. Evans has evaluated of 9 to 1.
Silhouette is the daughter of multi-color champion MFI Peruvian Donovan and three-time color champion APP Peruvian Phlirtation, as well as the granddaughter of the famous Augusto and great granddaughter of the revered Royal Fawn.
Silhouette's first breeding was to 5X Multiple Champion SA Peruvian Oracle, and that pairing gave us a fabulous true black male, Snow Diamond Sgt Pepper. Sgt Pepper, also a multiple champion like his parents, already has several dates lined up for him in the spring of 2013.
Silhouette's 2012 cria by the awesome Golden Thunder, is Snow Diamond Thunder Road. With his rich medium-brown color, black points and curly fleece, this little guy is a spitting image of his half-brother Snow Diamond Thunder Bay.
Silhouette is bred to Snowmass Matrix Madness for a 2013 cria.
Awards Received * 2008 Spring Alpaca Show: 1st Place Fawn Walking Fleece * 2008 Spring Alpaca Show: 1st Place Fawn Juvenile (Dark Fawn, Brown) * 2008 Spring Alpaca Show: Fawn Color Champion * 2008 Spring Alpaca Show; Best of Show * 2008 Indiana Alpaca Invitational: 1st Place Dark Fawn Juvenile * 2008 Kentucky Classic: 1st Place Dark Fawn Juvenile * 2008 Kentucky Classic: Reserve Color Fawn Champion * 2008 Heartland Classic: 1st Place Breeder's Best of Three * 2008 Heartland Classic: 2nd Place Yearling Bred and Owned * 2008 Heartland Classic: 2nd Place Dark Fawn Yearling * 2008 Alpacafest: 1st Place Dark Fawn Juvenile Fleece * 2008 Alpacafest: Reserve Color Champion Dark Fawn Juvenile Fleece * 2008 Alpacafest: 1st Place Yearling Bred and Owned * 2008 Alpacafest: 1st Place Dark Fawn Yearling * 2008 Champions Alpaca Show: 1st Place Fawn Walking Fleece * 2008 Champions Alpaca Show: Color Champion Walking Fleece Fawn * 2008 Champions Alpaca Show: 1st Place Bred and Owned * 2008 Champions Alpaca Show: 1st Place Fawn Yearling * 2008 Champions Alpaca Show: Color Champion Fawn Yearling * 2009 Best of the Midwest: 1st Place Yearling Dark Fawn * 2009 Indiana Alpaca Invitational: 1st Place Dark Fawn Yearling * 2009 Indiana Alpaca Invitational: Reserve Fawn Color Champion * 2009 Spring Show: Reserve Color Champion Fawn Walking Fleece * 2009 Spring Show: 1st Place Fawn Yearling * 2009 Spring Show Color Champion Fawn * 2009 Kentucky Classic: 1st Place Yearling Bred/Owned * 2009 Kentucky Classic: 1st Place Dark Fawn Yearling
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