River's Rumor Has It

Rumor is the product of grandfather Apocalypse who has renowned EPD's and dam Stargazer's Angelina. Sire, Royal Rumble, is the offspring of 6PERUVIAN ROYAL GOLD 5002 IMPR98. Royal Gold was a prolific prepotent breeding fawn herd sire. We took a chance on her sire Stargazer's Royal Rumble with his good EPDs and histogram. Rumor has one of the best histograms on the farm and she has some very nice trait values across the spectrum of EPD traits. Her AFD at five is 20 with an SD of 4.0 and CV of 19. Rumor is proven X2 with no birthing issues and healthy cria.

Rumor's color is light fawn the the color looks like spun gold. Her Density is very good, staple is excellent and luster & brightness is great. What guard hairs she does have they are extremely fine. If she has a fault it would be the coverage on the face. I can live with that with the quality of fiber she is producing. I expect her fiber to be grade one far into the future. In visualizing her AFD in the 2021 cut my evaluation is again a grade 1.

Rumor has famous lineage on top and bottom. Grandfather El Bello, who is one of the most prolific Stud Masters of all. I love it when I find an alpaca with El Bello in a generation close to what I am buying. Father And Grandfather, Gold and Rumble's genetic profiles are amazing for fineness and uniformity of fineness. All her EPDs are incredibly desirable. We could not be more pleased with the selection of Royal Rumble to improve Angelina's offspring's fleece statistics and traits. Take a look at Rumor's well rounded EPDs, under the DNA icon on this page.

We at Colusa Riverside have improved our fineness to a significant degree with our 3rd, 4th & 5th generations of dams, we are now at grade 1 & 2 microns consistently in all offspring. We are now working on our uniformity of fineness as is evidenced in the histogram & EPD AFDSD. To us, it is much more important to have well rounded EPD profile across all traits. Having animals the 5% to 10% range is our goal, but these percentiles across the entire fleece versus having a 1% in just one or two fleece traits. So, Rumble does that for his offspring and now so will Rumor.

Rumor is being bred to Majestic's A Man Among Men who we hope he will pack on the density even more than Rumor already has. Man has significant color in his background so it would be nice to get color even though we are in a white breeding program, I just love fawns.