Density: 57.9 /mm2

Secondary:Primary fiber ratio: 9.8 :1

In-skin mean primary fiber diameter: 22.3μ Standard Deviation: 3.2 μ Range: 16.5 μ to 30.1 μ

In-skin mean secondary fiber diameter: 13.7 μ Standard Deviation: 2.5 μ Range: 8.2 μ to 21.5 μ

 Micron Count
2010: 17.6/ 3.28/ 18.6/ CF 99.8%
2011: 19.2/ 3.31/ 17.3/ CF 99.3%

Call it pure dumb luck, or breeder's "genius", but when we watched the evolution of Guns n Roses and made the risky decision to put all our "eggs in one basket" by then finding 15-20 of the best females, with lines to complement his, there was none that we anticipated more than this match to Snowmass Silver Fox. She had a magnificent production record and outstanding sustained fineness. Unfortunately, we lost her in 2010 to intestinal cancer.
But in addition to RR Tempest, now one of our production females, she gave us RR Guns Kit Carson.
KC took his first championship at 8 months of age. As this is written, Nov 17,2011, his fleece does not look too much different at age 2 1/2, something remarked on even in the show ring this fall.
If you have a look at his Watt follicle testing results, the reasons will be obvious. The mix of black and white fibers in his grey is homogenous in micron. He is the only alpaca, male or female, that carries the best characteristics of the Snowmass Peruvian Casanova and Guns n Roses lines. We expect that to reflect in his production.

His follicle density testing by Ian Watt is outstanding at his sampling at 2 years of age:

Density: 57.9mm/mm2
Seconday: Primary fiber ratio: 9.8:1

In-skin primary fiber diameter: 22.3 micron SD 3.2
In-skin secondary fiber micron: 13.7 micron SD 2.5

Comments:
"High density coupled with an excellent set of numbers for the secondary fiber population give this male potential as a significant sire in his color group. a group not known for its uniformity within each fiber population.
This is a significant animal for silver grey alpacas, where the black fibers tend to be very strong in micron and vary across the staple in most alpacas of this colour"

  AWARDS

2010 GWAS (1270 alpacas) FIRST PLACE Reserve Color Champion (Jill MacLeod)

2010 FUTURITY  FIRST PLACE (Amanda VandenBosch)

2010 MOPACA - Color Champion at 8 months of age!!!  (Amanda VandenBosch)

2010 TXOLAN - Second Place ("coin toss finish...") (Lisa Shimeld)

2010 CABA CLASSIC  Second Place, Gray Juvenile Male

2010 Gold Country Gathering  FIRST PLACE, Color Champion Gray Yearling Male

2010 Gold Country Gathering Second Place Breeder's Best Yearling Male

2010 Gold Country Gathering FIRST PLACE Breeders Best Three

2010 ABR Fall Festival FIRST PLACE Breeders Best Three

2010 ABR Fall Festival FIRST PLACE (out of 8), Color Champion (out of 52)

2011 TXOLAN FIRST PLACE

2011 International Alpaca Odyssey  FIRST PLACE, Color Champion

2011 MOPACA FIRST PLACE

First Place, Reserve Color Champion 2011 California Classic

FIRST PLACE, Color Champion 2011 Gold Country Gathering Judge Wade Gease

FIRST PLACE, Color Champion  2011 ABR Fall Festival Judge Polly Michaelis