|
|
Cocoa Puffe Sonny (Australia) x Shelley Fabares (Chile) DOB: 7/14/00 ARI No.: 821850 Color: Light Brown/black muzzle and ear tips Type: Huacaya Cocoa Puffe is the senior Huacaya dam at Bella Vita. She has produced multiple show winning crias for us. Her first, Bella Chocolat (bay black) won blue at the 2005 GWAS and AOBA National Conference. Chocolat's fleece has also won multiple blue ribbons. The remarkable thing is that Cocoa Puffe was bred to Aspen, a medium fawn Peruvian Oro son with white and fawn in his background. Cocoa Puffe showed one dark fawn 2 generations back in her pedigree and was the product of medium fawn and white parents. Cocoa Puffe does have a black muzzle and ear tips, and somewhere in the mix the black genetics rose to the top. Cocoa Puffe's second cria is BVR Tucker, a medium brown male who has fine, dense fleece which has taken 2nd place at a couple of shows. He himself took 4th place out of 13 animals at the 2005 GWAS show when he was youngest in his class. He took second place at the ABR Fall Festival that same year, and his fleece also took second. He is growing into a handsome junior herdsire who grows incredible staple length every year and dense, soft fleece. His cute face graces the cover the the 2005 Fall issue of Alpacas Magazine. Cria fleece micron count was 19.2. Cocoa Puffe's third cria may be her best. El Corazon` is a medium fawn NWA Ltd. Haldane son who has absolutely breathtaking bright fleece, very soft handle, and beautiful crimp with bundling. His cria fleece stats are impressive with a micron count of 17.2. Corazon` was 3rd youngest in his class of 10 males at the 2006 GWAS show, and judge Amanda VandenBosch awared him the 2nd place ribbon. An impressive feat for his first show. We are so impressed with Corazon` that we are breeding his half sister, Chocolat, to Haldane. We would have bred Cocoa Puffe back to him, but her next cria is not due until fall and Haldane is only here in Colorado June-August 2006. Chocolat was ready for rebreeding after her cria when Haldane arrived in Colorado, so we chose to breed her to Haldane since the cross with her mother was so spectacular. Cocoa Puffe is a very attentive mom, has abundant milk, is calm in her demeanor and easy to handle. Chocolat has exhibited her mother's wonderful maternal instincts and milk production with her first cria in 2006. All of Cocoa Puffe's crias grow incredible fleece staple lengths with density and excellent coverage. She is not currently on our sales list. |
|
 Cocoa Puffe's first cria, Bella Chocolat |
|
 | Cocoa Puffe's 2nd cria, BVR Tucker |
|
 Cocoa Puffe's 3rd cria, El Corazon` |
|
 4th cria, Chia Pet |
| |
| | |
|
Sunset Hill's Zeph's Zsa Zsamora Peruvian Zephyrus (Royal Fawn) x Caligula's Accoyo Iris ARI#: 30016143 DOB: 5/8/06 Color: White Zsa Zsa is the thoughtful product of Sunset Hill's breeding program. We purchased Zsa Zsa to add new bloodlines to our production female pool. She brings to our program her beautiful physical phenotype and her fabulous fleece characteristics of distinct bundlng, incredible brightness, and wonderful handle, truly an elite fleece that brings a WOW response from anyone who views her parted fleece. Although she is white, she descends from the Royal Fawn line so has color genes in her pedigree. When we sheared Zsa Zsa, we found a fawn spot on her neck. She was purchased specifically for our two young hersdires, the light fawn Tuscan Gold and the medium fawn El Corazon`. Zsa Zsa has been in the show ring several times bringing home mostly blue ribbons, winning top honors, including Color Champion at MOPACA and Reserve Color Champion at TxOlan. She moved up into the yearling girls at 2007 AOBA, being one of the youngest in her class, and earned a 5th place ribbon with the judge commenting on her incredible staple length, fine fleece and beautiful elite characteristics. Zsa Zsa will begin breeding in the fall of 2007. 2007 Fleece stats: AFD 21.2, SD 4.8, CV 22.4, CF 95.6, staple length 100 mm, micron range 18.3 - 23.8, curve 30.8 Dg/mm AWARDS: 1st and COLOR CHAMPION - 2007 MOPACA 1st and RESERVE COLOR CHAMPION - 2007 TxOLAN 1st - 2007 GWAS 5th - 2007 AOBA Nationals 3rd - 2006 OABA |
| |
|
SA Peruvian Apollo's Nicolette Royal Peruvian Apollo x CPeruvian Nara Full Peruvian, half Accoyo ARI: 30423831 DOB: 7/18/05 COLOR: White Nicolette comes from a proven winning line at Stachowski Alpacas. She is a large female with substantial bone, total coverage, a very elegant presence and sweet, quiet disposition. Her calm disposition has made her a joy to show as you can stand her up like an Arabian horse and she will hold whatever pose you ask of her. Nicolette was added to our breeding program not only for her wonderful disposition but also for her strength of pedigree, total coverage of her dense, dense fleece with beautiful character of independent bundles and uniform crimp style. She has placed high in her show classes and will begin breeding after the spring 2007 show season to Accoyo Grandmaster, a full Accoyo from the Stachowski Alpacas program, for a 3/4 Accoyo cria. Grandmaster has retained a low micron count throughout his life and breeding career. Although she is white, she is a Royal Fawn granddaughter, so has color genetics in her pedigree. We plan to explore that color possibility in 2008 and beyond when breeding her to our fawn males, Tuscan Gold and El Corazon`. 2007 Fleece stats: AFD 21.7, SD 4.5, CV 20.8, %<15 1.7, CV 95.1, staple length 110, micron range only 20.2 to 24.0, curve 37.7 Dg/mm. Nicolette is in the top 5% of our ranch for producing long staple lengths. Her 115 mm relaxed staple length stretched to 135 mm wtih 3 crimps/cm and average daily growth of 0.34 mm/day. Our goals when breeding her to our champion males will be to lower the micron count in her crias while maintaining the excellent fiber growth, bundling and density that Nicolette brings to the table. Awards: 2nd - 2007 TxOLAN (2nd to color champion) - white yearling females 4th - 2007 MOPACA - white yearling females 2nd - 2007 GWAS - white yearling females 3rd - 2006 OABA Alpacafest - white yearling females 6th - 2006 AOBA Nationals - white juvenile females 2nd - 2006 Buckeye Alpaca Show - white juvenilie females 5th - 2006 MAPACA Eastern Jubilee - white juvenile females 5th - 2006 Futurity Show - white juvenile females |
| |
|
BELLA CHOCOLAT Regal x Cocoa Puffe ARI#: 851394 DOB: 9/2/203 Color: Bay Black Part Peruvian, part Chilean This Peruvian Oro granddaughter is a gorgeous bay black female who is a proven dam and multiple blue ribbon winning female at level V shows (GWAS and AOBA). She has dense, crimpy, soft, bay black fleece with great coverage, excellent conformation and bite, and gentle personality. One of the things that put Chocolat at the top of her class, besides the above-listed fleece characteristics, is the lack of guard hair in her fleece. She has produced a true black cria and possesses the two white markings in her groin that indicate her ability to produce the true blue/black color. We learned about these two white groin markings from Australian and AOBA certified judge Peter Kennedy. He and his partner have a herd of about 300 black huacayas in Australia, and they look for these markings when buying black females. Chocolat's true black cria who sold at the 2007 AOBA auction also had these two white markings. Chocolat is an easy breeder, has no problems with cria delivery and has plenty of milk to support her growing babies. Awards: 1st place - 2005 AOBA Nationals (out of 4) 1st place - 2005 GWAS (out of 5) 2nd place - 2005 TxOLAN (out of 4) 2nd place - 2005 GWAS fleece (out of 9) 1st place - 2004 ABR Fall Festival, comopsite dark yearling female 4th place - 2004 GWAS (first show - out of 9) 3rd place - 2005 AOBA fleece show |
| |
 Chia Pet, 9 months old |
|
CHIA PET di BELLA VITA Cocoa Puffe x MFI Capricorn (Quetzal, Timoteo) ARI: 30440012 DOB: 10/13/06 Color: Beige 1/2 Peruvian, 1/2 Chilean, part Accoyo Another gem from our senior dam Cocoa Puffe, Chia Pet is a beauty! Her sire is the light fawn multiple blue ribbon male MFI Capricorn, a Quetzal son (Timoteo grandson). We had her on our sales list but took her off when she appeared to just blossom around 5 months of age. Her fleece just took off and the character started to reveal itself. Bright, beautiful even crimp with soft creamy handle and total body coverage. She has a beautiful head, straight legs and well proportioned body. We originally were going to sell her because she is related to many members in our herd (1/2 sister to Corazon` as one example), but we decided to keep her for future breeding to Tuscan Gold. To replace her would be a high-dollar figure, so she secured her place in our program, especially when her 2007 fiber stats arrived. AFD 17.5, SD 3.7, CV 21.0, %<15 19.7, 100% comfort factor, staple length 75 mm (8-month fleece), curve 37.2 Dg/mm. This little gal has grace and elegance in her movement and a sweet personality that makes her easy to work with. Her dam is an easy breeder, has normal pregnancies and unassisted deliveries with plenty of milk to support her crias. This should be a heritable trait for Chia Pet. We will show her in the fall of 2007 and spring of 2008, and then she will be ready to start her breeding career. |
| |
|
EXPRESS' BROOKHOLLOW AMAZING GRACE CPeruvian Accoyo Express x 6Preuvian Serenety DOB: 9/27/05 ARI: 30017823 Color: Medium Fawn Full Peruvian, half Accoyo This lovely lady joined our foundation herd in the fall of 2006. She is the daughter of CPeruvian Accoyo Express, one of the few offspring (only 5 registered in the US) and only male offspring of Accoyo Albus who was exported to England, thus making this a valuable and rare bloodline in the USA. Grace was chosen for our herd because of her fine, high-frequency, low amplitude, medium fawn fleece and color genetics to compliment our males, Tuscan and Corazon`. Her sire has produced Color Champion offspring in every color class in both genders. Grace is tall and pleasing to the eye with a balanced frame, sweet face and gentle personality. She has placed well in the ribbons at the shows and will go back to Brookhollow Farm and be bred to Invicible in 2007. Thereafter she will be at Bella Vita producing future champions with Tuscan and Corazon`. 2007 fiber stats (yearling fleece): 19.9 micron, 4.2 SD, 20.9 CV, 5.4 %<15, 97.6 comfort factor, 90 mm staple length, 18.7-23.7 min-max micron range, 45.2 Dg/mm curve. SHOW RECORD: 4th (out of 11) - 2006 MAPACA - medium fawn juvenile females 3rd (out of 7) - 2007 MOPACA, med. fawn yearling females |
|
|
