12/27/2019 Today was a sad day on the farm. We lost this beautiful gem - she was truly our favorite girl. Alivia gave us three beautiful girls and they are her legacy. We'll keep the one we still own...MMFA Elite Maxine.
Alivia is a prime example of a breeding dam that has retained a high quality uniform fleece well into her mature years. With her uniformity and Vicuna coloring, she is a rare gem that is a fantastic addition to our foundation herd. Her crias are absolutely beautiful---each maintaining extremely fine crimp structure, incredible fineness and uniformity, and excellent staple length. They would be good candidates for Produce of Dam.
Alivia is a great mom, and she proved herself with her August 2016 cria (out of Snowmass Royal Rose), WP Royal Lyvi (SOLD). She also proved that she can throw color! Lyvi is a light brown female with exquisite fleece characteristics. She won 2nd place in walking fleece (67.5/80) at 2018 Heart of Virginia right behind the Color Champion, who was none other than AMAF Lucy's Little Ricky -- a multi-champ and Judges Choice male.
July 2017 cria, MMFA Elite Maxine, is out of The Elite Maximus. She is a beautiful white female with 2018 histogram stats of 15.3/3.5/22.6/0.3 and she received a blue ribbon at her first show. One of our very best dams is an Elite Maximus daughter with histogram stats of 18.5/3.5/19.0/0.6 at 5 years old---and passing it on with density to boot! We expect Elite Maxine to do the same.
September 2018 cria, Ganymede's Summer Moon (SOLD), didn't disappoint. She's an extremely nice little girl that we can't wait to get into the show ring. She's been recently weaned and we hope to show her in Spring 2019. Her new owners will be showing her--yay!
Alivia is out of the great SA Peruvian Apollo, an impact herdsire with more than 180 registered offspring and hundreds of descendants from there. He obviously received and passed on the amazing genetics of his parents, PPPeruvian Royal Fawn 6014 and PPPeruvian Aphrodite 5070, both direct imports that have contributed greatly to the positive progression of the alpaca industry today.