Merlin's story is amazing but before we talk about that we need to comment about the quality of this exceptional male. Merlin is currently in heavy use for breedings to our herd. He has a perfect head with a helmet-head topknot, dense, fine and extremely uniform blanket fleece with uniform crimp structure well into his belly, legs, neck and tail. He is the male everyone who visits us asks about and we are thrilled that he is now producing for our program.
Merlin was born in early winter on one of the coldest days of the year and was born at 10 months gestation and very immature. His legs bent every direction at the knee joint as his joints were not fully developed. His body temp quickly dropped to 98 degrees and he would not dring and did not have the strength to stand. We tried to warm him, unsuccessfully and he was showing signs of complete failure. Next morning I went into the barn expecting to see that we had lost him and to my surprise he was fighting to his feet and pushing under mom to nurse. In our 16 years with alpacas we had never seen a cria in this condition fully recover so we knew right away there was something special about him.
Merlin has terrific genetics including Caligula, Legacy, Snowmass Perfection, Snowmass Wedding Pacabells, Don Julio, Pachelbel, Sunipani, Snowbells, El Nino, and the famous Michelangelo who we owned for many years. It all came together in this outstanding male.
In his first and only show he was a DOUBLE CHAMPION, color champion white male halter and color champion white fleece. He is now ready to add these genetics to your herd.