ANDACAL'S NOUVELLE LIANKA

ANDACAL'S Nouvelle Lianka (New Lianka) is named after her dam Lianka, one of the first alpacas we got when we started in late 2012. Dam Lianka was supposed to be retired and put out to pasture due to old age. On top of her increased age, she had survived meningeal worm a few years ago and her health was hurt by that. But, she obviously wanted to be a mother and had a quick meeting with our boy Remington. Lianka was sired by a Sedoso son and had a Huacho daughter as her dam. She had great EPDs for fineness. At one time she was top 2% for AFD, SF, and %>30. She is still top 2% to 4% in those categories. She is top 15% for SDAFD and top 25% for MSL. She had also maintained a good relative fineness as she had aged. She produced a number of offspring for us with great fleece characteristics. She is the dam of the girl that has been one of our best production females named Black Beau's Ariana., Another daughter out of her sired by such an outstanding male is a blessing, but having a cria and nursing it took a lot out of Lianka. Bless her soul, Lianka passed away 2 months after the birth. That's why we named this girl after her mom.

As stated earlier, little Lianka was sired by our modern grey herdsire WLK Remington Steele. She is Remington's first cria that he sired. He has a beautifully organized fleece and great luster. He has an exemplary Suri phenotype. Those characteristics are no surprise because Remington is out of great black genetics on both the top and the bottom of his pedigree. On top of the pedigree is his true black sire MMALP Goldstar's Vader. Vader has been producing great offspring, and especially great black crias the past few years. In fact, in 2019 he was a Get of Sire winner at the National Halter Show and then in 2020 was a Get of Sire winner at the Suri Network All Suri Fleece Show. He has sired a National Supreme Champion and he definitely passes on outstanding prepotent genetics. On the bottom of his pedigree is true black GLR Jamiyah. Your talking prepotent genetics again. She was a National Supreme Champion back when they were just called National Judge's Choice. There are great true black genetics throughout Remington's pedigree. So how did he turn out modern grey? Well in amongst the alpacas listed you find the great harlequin grey named Condor. That harlequin gene showed up in Remington's coloration making him the handsome dark silver grey male he is.

We plan on keeping Nouvelle Lianka for production. She has the great fleece characteristics of her dam. It's fine, it's uniform, and has a great handle. From both dam and sire she's inherited a very lustrous, slick fleece. Another thing she got from both is a fleece with great staple length. She has a beautiful Suri phenotype. We feel she will be another stud female like her maternal half-sister Ariana. She is now housed at Whistling Pines Ranch in Wisconsin and she has been bred to that farm's outstanding herdsire Whistling Pines Vontae Mack for a cria due in 2027.