Well, as you can tell by this little girl's name, she is a rose grey - rarest color out there for an alpaca. One look at her fleece and you'll go "WOW"!
Her sire, WP Captain's Black Label is a Captain Morgan son and Macgyver grandson, none of whom need any introduction. We are proud to own another one of Wings and a Prayer's female production dams.
Her dam, Sprite, produced 2 greys along with a black and a dark brown. She was an exceptional, nurturing mom, with good birth weights (average of over 20 lbs.!) and healthy cria. These are very heritable traits. Mauve weighed 24 lbs. at birth and was 75 lbs. at 5 months of age. She has good bone, excellent conformation, and stands out in a crowd. And, her sire, Black Label, has produced many, many blacks and greys, especially out of lighter dams.
Her best showing included a blue at Futurity in 2013 and blue at both the 2012 and 2013 CABA Classic.
Open her fleece and that's where she shines, literally! This girl has exceptional luster (typically not found this striking in greys), a silky hand, density and coverage, head to toe.
Mauve delivered her 2nd cria 9/17/15 - a gorgeous, true black female sired by Torvo, a true black grandson of the incomparable Torbio! Mauvelous was bred to an up and coming herdsire, Argo by Commandor. She delivered a stunning light brown male on 7/9/17.
For her next outing, she was bred toAdmiral's Commandor and produced a stunning female on Collins' birthday, August 21, 2018.
Mauve was bred to our 2017 Futurity winning Quebracho for her 2019 cria; what a pairing that was, a dynamite dark brown male cria named Tobacco Row. Unfortunately the majority of the show season was cancelled, so he was not shown.
We repeated the breeding to Quebracho for 2020; and she carries and births easily, and is such a nurturing mom with tons of milk! And voila! A dark mini-me female that we have named Priscilla was born in the summer of 2021! Watch for her in the show ring next year!
Now that we have one of Mauve's little girls in our program, we would love to re-home Mauve to a wonderful farm where she could live out her remaining days. Love this color! Her most recent histogram at age 10 was 30 microns, not bad for such a dark color!
