Animal Description:
PHENOMENAL!
We are very delighted to welcome Bellagio's first offspring to our herd. He is an outstanding representative of Bellagio's quality, sporting lovely uniform fleece with knock-out brightness, amazing crimp covering his entire body and density. I just love opening that fleece up! He was born with very straight legs, beautiful confirmation and the most handsome head. Raphael stands proud and confident.
His dam Hootalinqua is an amazing foundation female. A great mom, with an amazing milk supply, allows her offspring to gain between 1 pound and 1.5 pounds a day. Raphael's IgG was 3500. Very vigorous at birth and standing in 15 minutes.
And of course his sire, Bel Canto's Bellagio, descends from the great Sher Kahn, who has limited genetics in the states but is one of the biggest impact males in the history of the alpaca. Bellagio's sire Armando, continued to sire offspring with outstanding bright, dense and fine fleece. Bellagio earned himself numerous awards in FF halter and Fleece shows including a Reserve Championship and Blue ribbons. He was a fourth place at The Futurity and took a 3rd place at the 2009 AOBA Nationals in the composite class (his fleece took first).
2011 AWARDS
2nd MAPACA (behind another Bellagio son, Maxwell)
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