Anderson Acres Alpacas, LLC

Description

ANDACAL's Lucina, AKA Lucie, is a combination of fine micron genetics on the bottom of her pedigree put with a bit coarser uniform genetics on the top. Her dam Lianka's genetics start with the grandfathers Sedoso and Huacho. Huacho was bred to a female that was 15 micron at age 3 and that pairing lead to Lianka's dam Lilliann who has a histogram with a 17.4 AFD and a SD of 3.7. All of that is proof that Lianka's great EPDs are no fluke as she is top 2% for AFD, SF, and %>30 in 2017. Lianka is also ranked top 10.43% for SDAFD that same year and top 7.55% for MSL.

So, Lucie's dam brings the great fineness to the mix while her sire BRKRD Jaguar's Prince was chosen because his sire USA Peruvian Jaguar is top 1% EPD ranked for FW and because Prince's skin biopsy showed good uniformity as he has only a 6.8 micron spread between the secondary AFD and primary AFD. Although uniformity wasn't a huge weakness in Lianka's EPDs, it was the lowest ranking of those top 4 EPDs and we hoped to improve on it. We feel we have done a good job in regards to Lucie's fleece as it is fine, uniform, densely locked, and lustrous. Lucie has estimated EPDs based upon her genetics and can be seen by clicking on the EPDs link.

The genetics found in Lucie's pedigree by pairing Lianka and Jaguar's Prince together is outstanding. There are both outstanding females and males found in that pedigree. The list of herdsires is remarkable and it includes Sedoso, Huacho, Jackpot, Kalvin, MacGyver, Chief Qualchan, Saladin, Psylent Knight, and Fruzane Noir. Besides a good looking fleece, those genetics have lead to a female with a wonderful conformation and great fleece coverage including a very nice Suri head style. There is one unique thing about Lucie and that is there is some grey in her fleece including a very large patch of it in her blanket in the left shoulder area.