Sixth Day Farm

Sixth Day's Handy Hannah   

White, 31492997, 1/4 Bolivian, 3/4 Peruvian

At Sixth Day Farm, we have studied and applied the science of inheritence - genetics - to the acheivement of our goals: a herd of white alpacas that produce abundant quanitites of high textile value fiber: fine, uniform, bright, and with a silk-like feel.

In addition to tools like genetic indexes or 'EPD's', skin biopsy evaluation, and histograms, we have also studied and learned from the great breeders who created breeds and significant strains within their chosen breeds.

One tool widely used by plant and animal breeders whenever and wherever selective breeding was practiced is the crossing of related individuals, through linebreeding, or even inbreeding. We will not attempt to persuade those who are not comfortable with these breeding systems, but are confident that these carefully bred animals will prove the wisdom of this approach.

The pedigree of Hannah's 2011 cria will have three crosses to Hemingway, AND three crosses to PPeruvian Macarena. This pedig

An impressive pure Alianza Peruvian, Bravado is our foundation herdsire - in the true sense of the word: the male we built our breeding program on.

This guy is fineness personified, with flawless conformation. Just look at the beautiful bundling in his fleece. His micron count at his ninth shearing was 21.8! That's LASTING fineness.

Bravado is the result of combining the finest and most proven Peruvian alpaca genetics in North America: Bueno and Hemingway. Bueno is owned by Mike & Robin Tierney of MapleBrook Farm. His stud fee was $10,000, until he stopped breeding about a year ago. Bueno has sired over 100 winning offspring, and we believe Bravado is one of his best.

Bravado's dam, NWA,Ltd Marcie contributes another line of proven superior genetics: the world famous Hemingway. Marcie's dam is Macarena, making her a full sister to well known sires Predictor, Hektor and Handsome.

Bravado's crias have fantastic fleeces! Don't take my word for it, com