Cartella just had a medium fawn male cria with beautiful lock and luster! This is one solid female, now 9 years old and 11 months pregnant. She is large boned with correct conformation and built like a tank. Her color is a beautiful deep maroon, and her fleece still has locking characteristics, although much less than when she was younger. She sheared a 3 lb, 4 oz blanket in May 2015, and produces a lot of fleece year after year. Her sire is Chip's Peruvian Blackmail, a true black, Black Chip son with 4P Magnifico (dark silver grey) as the grand sire, and 4P Latte (dark brown) as the grand dam. Blackmail has produced many black offspring with notable locking characteristics and high luster. He was owned by Diane Beaver of Alpaca Ventures LLC and was one of her top herd sires. Cartella's dam is Carabella, who was never shown, but should have been. She is the daughter of 4P Meteor, one of the the most gorgeous deep dark maroon in the country at the time. Meteor went on to sire many well known champion sires for Park View Alpacas, including Cantano of Peru, who Alpaca Ventures purchased for $265,000 at auction. Carabella is the FULL SISTER to Cantano of Peru, and their common dam is 4P Cale. Cartella has been bred to top herd sires, and she produced 3 offspring from Yodi's Creation, a highly ribboned grey male shown by Jim Weir of Wildlife Ranch in Colorado. Yodi's Creation produced amazing density, lock, and luster on his crias with Cartella: Archer's Bo, Carson's Bullet, and Emory Greer. Her 4th cria is Cartella's Hannah by MFI Peruvian Accoyo Goldrush, with a 5 lb, 4 oz blanket in 2015. Check them out on the site, and their amazing blanket fleece weights. If you are looking to improve density in your herd, this is definitely the girl for you! Cartella is currently bred to Charlie Remington, a beautiful medium fawn male, who produced a 4 lb, 10 oz blanket this year at the age of 4! Charlie was unfortunately never shown and is unknown in the show world. She is due in June 2015, and we are expecting an amazingly dense, high luster cria! Cartella is currently residing at the Wild Rose Suri Ranch in Havre de Grace, MD and can be seen there. Contact us to schedule a visit and obtain more information or a fiber sample: Patti Anderson/Wild Rose Suri Ranch, 443-740-4240, [email protected] Diane Sheesley/Rainbow Mountain Alpacas, 814-952-2306, [email protected] Rachel Wingert/Rainbow Mountain Alpacas, 814-249-2330, [email protected]