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2024 update -- 2023 EPD data is in and Mia is truly in a class of her own !!! Mia ranks in the top 1.97% for AFD and overall very high percentiles across AFD, SDAFD, SF, and %F>30. WOW. For a ten-year-old, LSG female these stats are hard to match. This was our first year submitting EPD samples and we are blown away by the stats we got back. Mia's data certainly align with what we already knew -- she's a keeper!

2023 update: We've always thought Mia's fleece was fine, but wow were we still shocked at how fine!! Mia is truly extraordinary!! Check out this girl's fiber stats... at ten years of age, she is maintaining extreme fineness, with less than 4% of fibers over 30 microns. Her 2022 cria, Gio, is poised to follow in her footsteps -- the two have nearly identical fiber stats (Gio at 8 months, Mia at ten years)! What Mia lacks is density -- her total fleece weight for 2023 was only 1.8 pounds, granted she was bred with a cria by side, but the superb traits Mia has maintained in the fleece she does have far make up for any lacking density. We sent her fleece off to fleece shows this past year, again looking for quantitative data and feedback -- Mia received next to no points for fleece weight but very high marks in all other areas.

London's Milan "Mia" is making her Openherd debut with exciting news... Mia is a mama! Mia welcomed a curly locked little male earlier this month, pictures coming soon!

Mia is another beautiful London daughter and is a full sister to Paris, Brookelyn, and Zuri. Mia has been a social butterfly from birth, a true sweet soul who is always eager to greet us.

Mia takes after her sire, Shasta Springs Bachelor, in both her coloration and phenotypical traits. Her silver gray tuxedo markings are uniquely Mia, with many different spots speckled throughout her blanket and four white socks. She's inherited her dam's "show herself" personality, and is always pronging through the pastures, tail up, and tall and stretchy.

Another trait Mia inherited from her sire is extreme fineness. Mia's half siblings and fellow Bachelor offspring, Rosemont and Ebblouissante are maintaining Grade 2 fleeces at nine and ten years of age, respectively. Mia's 2022 fleece was shown at the 2022 Suri Network fleece show, where she placed sixth out of eleven in the gray mature class, placing behind Ebblouissante, Rosemont, and sisters Paris and Brookelyn from our herd. Mia had a near perfect score in fineness and handle, and by our hand, her fleece is almost certainly finer than Rosemont and Ebblouissante. We are very curious where Mia falls quantitatively.