ROCKSTAR's Keep the Faith

He's kind of an older dude now, but at age of almost 14, Bon Jovi still has the goods. From early on, Bon Jovi exhibited a beautifully soft, bright white fleece that has stayed extremely fine, with many bundles packed on a conformationally perfect and well-balanced frame. Crimp everywhere with fiber down to his toes. He has an awesome-looking head, very level topline, perfect bite/jaw set, and outstanding substance of bone. Most importantly, Bon Jovi represents the cornerstone of our breeding program, which focuses on the highly sought-after uniformity of micron, fineness with density, staple length, brightness, lack of primary fiber, and excellence in conformation. He passes all of those fleece traits to his offspring and routinely passes the fawn color of his sire and grand dam. He is still available for breeding. We have been thrilled with and were VERY surprised and pleased with Bon Jovi's appearances at GWAS and the International Alpaca Odyssey (IAO) in 2014 where he took first place as a Yearling White Male and Reserve Color Championship in Cottage, first place in the Light Male Walking Fleece Show and second place just behind Snowmass Seventh Samurai in the Commercial Halter ring. Judges' comments praised Bon Jovi's combination of fineness with density, brightness of fleece, length of staple/fiber architecture, overall uniformity, and lack of guard hair moving across his blanket, through the shoulder area, and down his legs. I nearly passed out as he was praised for these fleece characteristics in both the Cottage and Commercial show rings, and could not be more pleased with the comments from Peter Kennedy at GWAS. In his only show appearance in 2015, BJ won 1st place in the male 2YO class and then went on to win the color championship. He's sporting some nice fleece stats at age 3 with an AFD of 17.7, 3.8 SD, CV of 21.5%, and .5 >30%. BJ's 2016 skin biopsy by Dr. Norm Evans confirmed some of our thoughts on density and uniformity. Please email me for a copy of the biopsy results.