DULCE ROSA DE ANDACAL

Rosa is not one we are necessarily looking to sell because she is the last cria out of a great production female Delaney Rose. Delaney was 15 years old when she had Rosa. We had planned on retiring Delaney to pasture and we did, but two months after weaning Rosa, Delaney unexpectedly passed away. Delaney was a beautiful harlequin rose grey girl and she was the daughter of the great harlequin silver grey import Condor.

Rosa's sire is the great classic silver grey herdsire Peruvian Silver Heat. Heat won 4 banners in the show ring, but what he is most known for is the great offspring he has sired. He was the first grey herdsire to ever win The Futurity Dark Herdsire of the Year in 2011. He currently has right at 80 registered offspring in the ARI registry and a lot of those offspring are producing additional great silver grey offspring themselves and so on. We have heard it said that he is like the MacGyver of grey Suri alpacas as you will find his name quite often in the pedigrees of champion grey Suris. He is definitely prepotent.

Rosa has a dense, lustrous fleece. Her first shearing at 20 months produced a fleece that was relatively fine at 23.9 microns and the sample that tested at that AFD was submitted for the AOA EPD program. For a black Suri, her EPDs are solid. They can be seen by clicking on the EPD link on this page.

Rosa had a 19.0 lb. brown male sired by Challenger on 6/23/2021. The fleece has a beautiful luster with a hint of grey in it. He grew steadily and Rosa is a great mom with plenty of milk. She's very attentive and protective of her boy. That trend of being a fantastic mom continued with her 2023 cria sired by Aragorn. That cria was also a male and weighed 16.8 lbs at birth on 9/5/2023. He's black with nice fleece characteristics and a nice phenotype. We really like his potential and he's been sold.