Spring Ridge Monique
Baby season has had a good start with the birth of Monique on March 31st. First time mom Nikayla has done an excellent job with this little girl who weighed in at 14.8 pounds. Momma has had good milk supply and Monique has been running non stop. She has taken after both her parents in being true black, but back in her lineage she has quite a variety of colors. She definitely has crimp down under that cria fleece and very good density. We will continue to watch this little girl grow and develop.
Spring Ridge Antwan
Our newest addition was born April 21, 2010. This little boy came in weighing 15.8 pounds and momma has plenty of milk just waiting for him. This little male is full Peruvian with some Accoyo background. He has the crimp already and is still wet behind the ears. We are pleased with another Romero baby, now if he can just give us a girl. We are selling Monique and Antwan in a package deal. If you are interested, give us a call.
Spring Ridge Clemontine
Clemontine came into our lives May 25th. She was born on my dad's birthday so of course we had to name her after him (Clemon), but being she was a girl we had to make it a girls name. Her dam is our Hasana and sire Sombra's S'More Jet. She is a beautiful dark silver grey with crimp galore. We are very please with this little girl and my hubby hasn't said to sell her but if anyone is interested give us a call and will consider offers.
Spring Ridge Zipster
Zippy was born May 30th and he is getting the popcorn crimp, which will only improve as he grows. His dam is our Kalli and we will await to find out who is sire is. Kalli was bred before we purchased her and she had been exposed to 2 different males. Zippy will be over 7/8th Peruvian and over half Accoyo. His lineage will have Peruvian Hemingway, Peruvian Bueno, and 4Peruvian Legacy just to name a few from his dam's side. We will probably list him on Alpacanation once we get him registered to know his sire.
Spring Ridge Sylverson
What a surprise when this little boy was born on June 8th. If it hadn't been so many days apart of Sy and Clemontine we would have thought twins. They are cousins though and definitely the genetics are there to produced the same characteristics. Sy weighed in at a good 18.6 lbs and has not stopped growing. He is a little sweetheart and we love how well his fleece is coming in.
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Rising Sun's Serosa Claire and Rising Sun's Countess
In the last 6 months Denny and I have done some crazy things. We didn't plan on buying more animals but last July we purchased 1 female and 4 males to help a lady out of financial trouble. Then in August we purchase another male...just what we needed LOL but couldn't pass up the deal. In November we purchased another female at an auction, darn charge card just made it too easy for another great deal. This past weekend January 16th and 17th 2010 we really done the crazy and drove all the way up to Wisconsin to purchase another female (another great deal) but one that we couldn't pass up. Serosa is her listed name and the farm is Rising Sun Alpacas or as they used to be called Brainstorm Alpacas. Serosa's (Top Dog offspring) lineage was so impressive that we knew that she would only add to our foundation herd. After 12 hours on the road we arrive and you know how when you meet someone that things just connect. That is how we felt first meeting Mike and Suzanna. The little bit of time that we spent with them we were so comfortable talking with them we wish we could stay longer. Mike also had warned us to bring our trailer because he always had a deal in his back pocket. Needless to say we not only came home with Serosa but a young female called Countess (Diesel offspring), they both just fit perfect in the back of our Durango. Would we do this again, YES, but not a round trip ride (27 hours total) because next time we want to spend more time with Mike & Suzanna. If you are looking for good foundation animals and animals that can very much be shown, which we plan on showing these two girls, check out their website. Very fine people they are and the little bit of time we were there we could see their farm was very well managed. Thank you Mike and Suzanna!
Our story continues and what a story to tell. We were so impressed with the first two girls that we decided to try for a 3rd and we welcomed Beth-HA-ney to our farm. Nice this time around Mike was making the journey to the East coast and on his way home he stopped by to check out our girls and we in turned checked out HA HA (Beth-HA-ney) and traded 2 young girls for her. She is a Juliaca offspring and she has the crimp, density, well everything and then some AND she is old enough to be bred this summer.
Rising Sun's Beth-HA-ney (HA HA)
Does our story end there. NOPE! We were so hooked on these fine examples of their animals and the outstanding herd sires that we had to consider a male for a future herd sire of our own. With 3 girls all different bloodlines we hoped to find a young male with a 4th bloodline to compliment these girls. We feel that we found him in Izaking, a Lancelot offspring. We not only purchased Izaking but friends of ours started looking at these wonderful animals and next thing I know I am making calls to Mike & Suzanna and saying hey how about this male for friends of ours. Needless to say we made a trip to Indiana to meet Mike who was on his Florida trip with animals. We not only brought home Izaking and three males for our friends but did a trade for another female Cinamagic, another Juliaca offspring. When Mike says he trades for anything he does trade. I never thought he would say yes to a big jewel box of costume jewelry and some gold, earrings, baseball cards, gems, watches, etc. Does our story end there, well of course not because we also purchased another male which we brought home May 9th and you guessed it we purchased 5 more females (4 pregnant) from Rising Sun's auction. The 4 pregnant females will give us an additional lineage, Accoyo Expression and another Accoyo Diesel cria. One of the pregnant females we thought was open but came to find out she is suppose to be bred to Peruvian Shiva, another lineage that we think as a bonus to our Peruvian/Accoyo lineage.
Rising Sun's Izaking
Rising Sun's Cinamagic