Our long-term goal is to produce alpacas with ultra-fine fleeces.  We want our alpacas to maintain fine fleeces throughout the majority of their lives (not like the average alpaca who only has fine fleece in the first 1 to 3 years).  Although our main goal is fine fleece, we still want to maintain good density and staple length (not an easy goal but we're up to the challenge).  

In 2004 & 2005 we added the genetics of the super fine-fleeced males: DPO Minos (AFD of 18.5 µ at 2yrs) and Tell Trisco (AFD of  16.3 µ at 2yrs ....  at the time, it seemed almost unbelievable to us!).

In 2006, we added the genetics of RFA Mousse to our herd (16.7 µ at 2yrs ....  another incredibly fine male!). 

With these fine genetics, we are confident that, over time, we will reach our goals of producing fine-fleeced alpacas with slow blow-out rates, good density and staple lengths.  

We do NOT starve our animals to get good microns, we try to maintain our animals at a body score around 3.5 (out of 5).  We also feed hay with good protein levels.  Our animals have low microns because they are genetically fine!

Some of our animals compared to a fairly average alpaca

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