March 19, 2008

Picture taken August 20, 2007

The twins Sire: Solar De Peru
Sire of the famous Peruvian Lorenzo , Lady Zoe & many other ribbon winners.
He is a beautiful, full fibered, large Peruvian import.
Chosen by Dr. Bill Barnett of Alpacas of America.
Micron of 19.1 wonderful fine, crimpy dense fiber, & sheared 11 pounds at age of 2.
He was one of Driscoll's top Herd Sires out of 700 Alpacas!

The Twins come from a brilliant lineage
with awesome Accoyo Peruvian backgrounds!

The twins Dam: Peruvian Florida
Daughter of the nationally known Accoyo herdsire
Pperuvian Camilio G4561!
"He is a Son of Don Julio Barreda's Standing Bear, Camilio was the top fawn pick in the largest import of Accoyo fawn Herdsires to date. With a micron count of 20 at age 3 and a 1995 shear weight of 13 pounds, he sports a beautiful light fawn colored fleece. Camilio has a proud, handsome presence with heavy bone and perfect conformation. "

Many of Camilio's offspring have acquired
Grand and Reserve championship titles.

Peruvian Cuzco has amazing crimp and density! He is 7 years old this year and his fiber is still very desirable. He passes on his exceptional traits to his offspring. He has a perfect Bite, very good Conformation and the kind of fiber that many dream of having in their herd. Some of his offspring have done very well in shows across the country. In AlpacaFest 2003 Cuzco won 2nd place for sire's Progeny.
And 3 of his offspring also won R&R Chiante placed 2nd in the Juvenile White Female class. R&R Adonis came in 3rd in the junior white male class. and AVA Alder won 4th in the junior fawn male class. These are just a few of Cuzco's accomplishments.

The Twins are currently bred to Kelowna's Salute to Cuzco for July 2008! Cuzco is also the proud father of Janelle and Joshua!

The story of our Alpaca Twins!

Our Twins were born in August of 1999 and have grown into beautiful young mothers! It is believed by many that twin girls are not likely to be able to reproduce, but both Mona and Lola have once again beat out all odds!

It is extremely rare for alpacas to have surviving twins. As far as I know ours are the only Full Peruvian twin girls that are registered with both ARI and the CLRC in Canada.

They have been through a lot, they started their life in BC at Driscoll Farms, then were purchased by David and Lynnette Fettes and resided in Saskatchewan until we purchased them along with their Dam Florida (Floor-ee-da) in October of 2000. We quickly fell in love with them! The Fettes decided to breed Lola but Mona, they felt was too small. In 2001 Lola gave birth to a beautiful fawn girl, Chianti who we sold in 2002.

Again in 2002 Lola had a boy named Diego. Mona had a dark fawn female, who unfortunately died tragically due to a predator. In 2003 we made a bad deal with the Clarkes and the twins were sent to Ontario, after a long battle to get them back, they returned home to us in August of 2005! We are unsure of what the girls had in 2003-2005. Both of the girls delivered healthy baby boys in 2006. They were bred to unknown sires as we didn't have them in 2005 when they got bred, so we were unable to register these boys, they have gone to a loving family as pets. This year we are back on track!

Lola is the White one, she has a really cute personality, and is really curious and gentle. She absolutely loves being sprayed down with the hose on a hot summer day.
The twins are very close and have been together since birth so that is why we have decided to sell them as a pair. They stick by each other's side and are protective of each other. They are perfect aunts to each other's crias. It seems like they have the special bond that human twins have. It really is a beautiful site.

Mona is the light fawn one. She is very easy going and carefree. She also likes the hose and is very interested in small children. Every time we have kids out she is so curious and just loves them!

We never had the chance to show the twins but Lynette and David Fettes showed them in Prince Albert Exhibition in the Produce of Dam and Get of Sire events and they placed second and fourth in their class. Probably the only time that's happened with the same animals in both classes! I am positive that the twins would shine in a show ring if given the opportunity!

It was an extremely hard decision to sell these twins as it has brought our farm a lot of attention but we have been dealt a few bad hands in the past few years and have decided that they haven't had the chance to reach their highest potential in the show ring and breeding world. We hope that they will go to a loving home and live out the amazing life that they were born to live.