Blue Gate Alpacas

Valorie   

Light Brown, 835867, 1/2 Chilean, 1/2 Peruvian

Valorie is the dam of Benito and Valkyrie - she is a producer of high quality cria. Valorie is a nice compact alpaca with very good conformation. At three years of age her fleece came in with a micron count of 20.0. She is holding and actually improving fineness in her fleece while nursing and carrying a pregnancy. She is the daughter of Royal Peruvian Valor, a son of Accoyo Royal Fawn, who is standing stud at Alpacas of Tualatin Valley. Valorie is 1/4 Accoyo. Valorie's dam is a true black - giving Val great color genetics. Her dam has produced very fine fleeced daughters with Valorie at 20 microns and her younger sister at 19 microns. Of note is that Valorie is holding her 20 micron fleece even after nursing and holding a pregnancy. These are invaluable fleece genetics. Valorie has proven herself to be a great mom - producing plentiful milk and giving great care to her cria.

Valorie's first cria is a lt. brown boy (Benito Juarez) sired by PCA Mars, a white son of th

Cognac is an Incan alpaca type - very compact, strong boned, and correct in his conformation. He is loaded with ultra-fine colored fleece genetics. Photographs don't do justice to his gorgeous color - he is truly the color of a fine glass of Cognac. With only 10 months of growth between shearings, his fleece weighed in at over 7 pounds. And what fleece it is - you won't find many dark fawn males with 18 micron fleeces.

Cognac's sire, 5Peruvian Red Hot, is a Vicuna quality brown male out of the elite North American Alpaca Stud also with an 18 micron fleece. Red Hot's progeny have been consistently winning their classes at the All American Futurity. Peruvian Red Hot has been an integral part of the Snowmass colored program. Julie Skinner notes that Red Hot was born out of Black Peruvian Dam and was such an incredible cria, unrelated to any of the colored alpacas in their program, that they never even dared take him off the farm. Snowmass was able to use him over all the