![]() ![]() Ben Franklin, boasted a luxurious, shiny fleece with a staple past our hand length and a crimp all the way to her skin! After being shorn, we were really impressed with her regrowth of even more beautiful fiber that was delicious to handle. Her light fawn girl, Fresca, sired by the multiple champion Matrix son Red Granite's Mr. She is out of Song, who has lingering fiber quality and had produced a slew of excellent dams (and an occasional herdsire) for us over the years. Aika is a 'love song' in Japanese, and it is pronounced 'AH-ee-ka' or if it is easier - 'EYE-ka'.Īika is paternal half sister to our Special K, a champion fawn who sired our champion Black Maelstrom. She is now bred to Stradivarius - fingers crossed for black!! Eirwen, daughter of our champion black male Dark Secret is white but carries the black genetics with the same fantastic fiber and breeding potential. Song's girl, Melody, went on to produce a spectacularly fleeced male, such that we kept her open for years while attempting to coordinate our timing with the stud's farm for another breeding. Fresca, a light fawn girl from Song's daughter Aika produced fiber that was dense, crimpy and long but also so shiny that one's eye was drawn to it like to sunlight. Danica went on to win two banners against significant competition. Danica is another offspring that stood out from the crowd as a cria for her vitality as she literally ran around Song while learning how to nurse as newborn. 'Luminal had so much fiber as a weanling that it threw off his 'boxy look' and one judge that awarded him high marks also said he would be much better once his (5 lb!) cria fleece was shorn off. Supermassive passed these traits - in addition to an unusually long, decidedly crimpy, fiber - to Superluminal. Notably, her stud son Supermassive lives up to his name in conformation and coverage, as he was described by a judge as 'rooted to the ground'. They also have her spot-on confirmation, solid bones, and great coverage. Regardless of color, her crias have all been desirable, some at champion levels in the show ring. Song is worthy of praise as a production 'cornerstone' dam, so I will compliment her by praise of her progeny's exceptional traits. In fact, her sire produced dark brown and bay black when bred to color. Both her dam and sire have a lineage infused with color genetics. Her dam also produced a dark brown male sired by a grey stud. Her first cria was a true black female sired by a dark brown male. Don't be fooled by this into thinking that she is a white production dam. She has had predominately white crias for us but that is due to the way she was bred. ![]() ![]() Song is the dam the you can build whole programs from, one that just keeps producing. She has been a fantastic mom, just like her own mom and daughters. ![]() She is well conformed, with a strong and straight frame even in her maturity. With glowing fleece and calm, easy-going personality, Song was born big (~22 lbs at birth and ~90 lbs at 9 mos) & grew at an amazing pace. ![]()
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