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Sienna Illusion
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date of birth: October 17, 2000
ari#: 822102
color: Dark Maroon
sire: Silver Creek 2S11
dam: Paita 9192 Impac98
micron: 2004: AFD:20.8µ SD:5.2µ CV:25.0 CF:95.0
2007: AFD:27.9µ SD:4.6µ CV:16.5 %>30µ:26.4
fleece weight: 2007: 5 lb blanket, 9.2 lb total fleece weight
awards: 1st Estes Park Wool Market fleece 2001
2nd (top placing in his class, 59.5 points at 7 years) EVAA Marketplace fleece 2007, ahead of an Aussie Rockford daughter half his age! If I had skirted his fleece better, he doubtless would have received at least 1/2 point more to win a blue ribbon in this show! Sorry, Sienna, my fault!

AFD 20.8µ at 4 years

Sienna Illusion is a beautiful Pperuvian Pluro grandson, dark maroon with black points. Generous coverage from his fluffy ears to his toes. Super low AFD even at 4 years of age, how many alpacas of any color do you see with those microns as an adult? You don't often see weanlings with AFD of ~20µ, especially rare maroons, and not even many whites.

I've been looking for Pluro decendents for some time and am thrilled to have found him, with such low micron and gorgeous color! He'd been hidden away since weaning as part of a fiber herd. His fleece was only shown once before he came to my herd.

You can breed any of your girls to Sienna with confidence. He's solid maroon, and will add rich gorgeous color, Super Fineness (20.8µ at 4 years, come on!!!), crimp, density, excellent conformation... And, I was asked about his bite today. So I went out and checked. At 8 years of age, his bite is still perfect.

Sienna's dam may or may not be Chilean or Bolivian. She was screened in Chile, but she is within the very large range of import and registration numbers that originated in Bolivia. And only a very few have the screening country notated on their registrations! So why Paita had the luck to have her registration noted that her country of origin as Chile is a good question. If he is half Bolivian, I'd be very pleased! But if he isn't I still think he's an excellent sire with beautiful fleece. 20.8µ at 4 years! And nonetheless, I know of many many exceptional Chilean alpacas, so whatever Paita's country of origin, I think she's a wonderful dam!

Sienna has generous staple length, and his fleece character looks every bit as nice as a Pluro great grandson who has won more than one color championship in the region.

In the short time Pluro was in the US he produced many exceptional offspring, then early on he was sold to an Australian concern. I have read that Pluro is now deceased. I'm confident Sienna will carry on his legacy.

Sienna's first two crias have arrived, and both have gorgeous dense, fine, crimpy fleece, excellent conformation, and presence to spare. I can already see lovely zipper crimp in his black daughter's fleece at only 4 days old!

Sienna's first son is dark maroon or dark rose grey (too early to tell) from a MRG dam, with gorgeous fleece, dense and crimpy, and fabulous conformation. His first daughter is true black or maybe DSG covering black, from a dark maroon dam, darker than Sienna. This cria also has straight conformation with very heavy bone, and dense, fine, crimpy fleece. What more can you want? I only hope both of these crias follow their sire in fineness, as well!

progeny
My Tanglewood Degas, Dark Maroon 7/8 Chilean, 1/8 Peruvian
Dam: Miss Katrina, Medium Rose Grey, 30337435, 1/2 Chilean, Other/Unknown

Pinenut Alpacas Sallie, True Black, 7/8 Chilean, 1/8 Peruvian
Dam: Woodland Meadows Nandina, Dark Maroon, 1056556, Full Chilean
 
 
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