Shasta's out of two very large and very bold alpacas and she shows it. At HaSu, we select for size, and Shasta certainly fits the bill. She's our tallest girl and has terrific bone and conformation, making her an ideal breeder and birther. Her first cria Shamokin, weighed in at 20 pounds when he was born. Shasta's a great milker, which is evidenced in her cria's advanced growth rate and early weaning age. And as testament to that ,she is one of the rare
alpacas to have living twins. Not only did they survive, but she
delivered them without assistance, and nursed them without
supplementation. In fact, we weaned her twin crias at 5 months rather
than 6 because they were so large.
Shasta has a true black fleece with a nice handle. And it is bright and consistant with good staple length. Her pedigree features only dark alpacas-- all black on her sire's side and black and silver grey on her dam's side. Her sire, Acero Marka's Bernard, is a proven producer of award winning cria, including the acclaimed True Black Vesuvias.
For more information on the quality of Shasta's cria, look at Shamokin in our male huacaya section. He has a beautifully fine bright crimpy light fawn fleece. And like his mom, is a large and perfectly conformed. Shamokin has done well in both the halter class and fleece competitions. His last winning was at the Empire Extravaganza where he brought home second in a very comptetive class. Her twins, are no slouches either. The female twin will be entering the show ring this Spring. And her 4th cria, out of our studmaster Heminway son, LTD Mohican, is a beautiful bay black boy. He is large like both his dam and sire and sports an extremely tightly crimped fleece.
She is being sold with her next breeding to true black color champion, Canzelle's Zambesi. We expect a true black cria from this pairing of alpacas wtih deep true-black genetics.
