NEW ADDITIONS TO THE RANCH! THE TUSCAN CRIAS HAVE ARRIVED!!! CORAZON HAS HIS FIRST CRIA ON THE GROUND!!!
Last fall the Tuscan Gold crias arrived, and he has not disappointed! All 7 are show quality, eye candy crias. He does have one true black female yearling female on the ground here at Bella Vita from 2007, his only cria that year. Other crias include a beatiful light fawn female born to Nicolette, our Peruvian Apollo daughter, and sired by Grand Master. She is a beauty with her fabulous fiber characteristics and long staple length. Bella Chocolat delivered her cria out of Tres Cuartes Black Espresso (Accoyo Express son) from Sunset Hills farm on 6/28/08, a healthy light fawn male whose fiber has very long staple length, density and great handle.
Our Corazon` partners, Sand Creek Criations, have the one and only Corazon` cria on the ground, a beautiful white female named Corazon's Majestic Skye. Definite show quality cria. Congratulations to the Johnsons!
Maremma News: We are waiting for spring breeding of Maria and Vinny and will breed Gordina and Vinny this fall. We are currently taking orders for both litters.
Our Maremma sire, Vincenzo, received a unanimous excellent hip rating from all 3 reviewing radiologists at the OFA Foundation. An excellent rating in a dog his size is rare. An OFA rating on the hips of a dog helps predict the incidence of hip dysplasia. Vinny's excellent rating is a great step toward ensuring his pups will have long and sound careers as livestock guardian dogs without the crippling effects of hip dysplasia.
2008 SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
Luciano di Bella Vita - TxOlan 2008 - 2nd place and reserve color champ!
Angelina - TxOlan 2008 - 3rd out of 15 in her first show. At 2008 GWAS, took 6th place out of 15 in the middle section of white juveniles, youngest in that group as she missed her class in the youngest group of juvenile females. This is quite an accomplishment for a white out of a bay black dam to compete against all those strong white genetics.
Zsa Zsamora and Nicolette - GWAS fleece show - Zsa took 1st place and Nicolette right behind her in 2nd place in yearling white fleeces.
Duramax - Spin off contest, 2008 GWAS - 1st place and Judge's Choice with a score of 99.95 from judge Claire Walker. Repeat of his qst place win in 2007 Suri Symposioum spin off competition.
Evana - 2nd place in 2008 GWAS spinoff contest with a score of 98.5. Repeat of her 2007 Suri Symposium spin off competition.
Tuscan Gold - 4th out of 10 at NAS Champion Division, noteworthy because he was at a minimum 2 years older than the other entries in this elite class. Placing this high against juvenile and yearling fleeces says a lot about this male's ability to maintain his fleece characteristics while heavy into his breeding career.
El Corazon` - AOBA Nationals 2008 - 4th in his halter class with Judge Safely commenting, "You gotta love the head on this animal" and raving about his excellent fleece staple length and fiber coverage. Then Corazon took 1st place out of 11 entries and Res. Color Champ in the fawn male fleeces in the AOBA fleece show.
Sparticus - AOBA Nationals fleece show - 1st place and Reserve Color Champion fleece.
2008 GWAS, first in halter, first in fleece.
2009 Show Schedule
MOPACA
The Futurity
GWAS
AOBA
2009 SHOW RESULTS
MOPACA
Tuscan Gold - First attempt at Get of Sire and he wins! Toscana, Luna and Tuscanator brought home this prestigious honor for their sire. Noteworthy because this class contained very competitive crias from Xanadu, Irish Meadows and others.
Toscana, selected for the 2009 AOBA National auction, took a 2nd in her class of 8 and was the youngest in that group, turning 6 months the day of this class. The 1st place female went on to win the Res. Color Championship. Carina took a 4th in the same class.
Luna placed 4th in her class of 14. She was 2nd youngest in this class.
Tuscanator took 3rd place out of 10 in his class. He was 3rd youngest in the class, and our Tres Cuartes Black Espresso son, American Express Gold, placed 6th in the same class. AROSA Dazzlyn, a true black Tuscan female juvenile bred by The Alpaca Rosa and sold to Irish Meadows finished 1st and color champion, black females. Congratulations Alpaca Rosa and Irish Meadows!
THE FUTURITY
Toscana was the baby in her class and took the 6th place ribbon. She was in good comopany with 3 Snowmass juveniles, a Magical Farm juvenile and a juvenile from Crescent Moon.
Prosecco took a 5th place ribbon in his large class and was the youngest juvenile in the class.
AROSA Dazzlyn, client true black juvenile female, took 3rd place
GREAT WESTERN ALPACA SHOW
Halter - 9 ribbons in halter, 11 alpacs shown, 9 crias 6 to 8 months and 2 crias 10 months old
2 first place
1 third place
3 fourth place - 1 class another client Tuscan cria took the 3rd place ribbon to our 4th
1 fifth
2 sixth (another of our alpacas took the 4th place ribbon in the same class)
Fleece - 3 entries, 4 ribbons - 2 firsts, 1 third and Color Champ. One 1st and the 3rd place ribbons were 2 entries in the same class.
NOTE: Another Tuscan cria (true black AROSA Dazzlyn, Irish Meadows) took 1st place in her class of true black juveniles.
El Corazon - fleece show, 1st place and COLOR CHAMPION - notablle since this was the 4th time this fleece was shown. This fleece placed 1st and res. CC at 2008 AOBA Nationals, 1st at AFCNA, 1st and Res. CC at 2008 ABR Fall Fest and now 1st and CC at GWAS 2009.
Sparticus - 1st place fawn fleeces, 2009 GWAS
Darcy (Diva's dam) - 3rd place in fleece (same class as Corazon)
Prosecco - 1st place and youngest in his class
Luna - 1st place and one of the youngest in her class
AROSA Dazzlyn - client Tuscan black female - 1st place
Toscana - 3rd place from large class and one of the youngest in her class
American Express Gold and Trifecta took 4th and 6th places respectively in their large classes
Asti and Diva took 5th and 6th places in their classes. Asti's 5th place was next to another Tuscan cria, Tuscan's Echo of Tapestry Farm, in 4th place.
Carina - 4th place
