Evangeline's name means Good News and she was indeed! Her fiber stats are a replica of Darby who has done fantastic in the show ring including 1st at Nationals in halter 2017. Darby just possesses slightly more density. This girl is darker with the same fineness! Her Sire Seismic is a Black Jag son who competed against his half brother Jacob Black (Irish Meadows) who is an undefeated TB and doesn't do outside breedings. Seismic is available to everybody who would love a TB. Check out her ARI which has been downloaded here. Evy birthed a male cria on 9/11/18. Impeccable's Halo is the sire and did a shade darker than Evy-a handsome maroon. 2020 we bred Evy to JJA Adonis' Dozer. Dozer is a Legacy Grandson and stamps that famous crimp on his offspring. He has only bred to a few and this year is a new girl for him-tough to get him a girl that is dark and not related. Hoping for her superfineness to have that crimp and density added. Should be the perfect combo. Dozer made Darby (see above) and Dynamite another female that did very well in her spring shows before selling at 1 yr. Evy and Dozer created a SUPERB Dozer replica in a female form. His 3rd female (no males) and such a clone we named her Dozer's Deja Vu. We repeated that breeding for a 2022 cria. 2022 Cria update: Both Grandma's of cria are fawn so we got a MF male that is tall like his sire and those beautiful, elegantly tall dams. His fleece looks amazing. Evy had a year off and then was bred to Polson and had her best cria yet! He reminds me so much of his great grandpa Royal Adonis who got us started in blacks! Adonis was so sweet and had extremely fine dense fleece that earned him 8 championships and 13 blues back when it was common to have 15 in a class! I'm still upset that I had to put Spero down after an extremely bad compound fracture from slipping on ice. I've left up his info so you have an idea of her potential. Of course, we bred her back to him but now, last month a female was riding her so she must have absorbed. I need to keep her until we get another like him. We are selling her daughter Deja Vue who has everything going for her so we can get our herd size down while having middle to older females staying.

Update: Primus is a grey maker! He has made grey even with brown and bay black girls without the grey parents. He has also made gorgeous blacks. One just born from a bay black girl looks just like him. He was born on August 1st 2024. Color Champion at 41.5 mths!! Judges have really liked him but CC has been going to the much younger animals. The fact that he is still so soft with consistency and long staple AS A BREEDER along with perfect conformation was appreciated! See his stats. only 2.6 micron difference between min and max micron!!! Primus has a very buttery handle to his fleece due to the consistency of his fine fiber and density. His yarn is incredibly soft-like a white cria fleece! His sire BMF Taos Zepplin is known for putting out blacks. He was the 2013 AOBA Black Male Fleece Champion. His histogram stats are very impressive starting with a 15.7 AFD and a 2.8 S.D. on his first fleece and at 5 yrs old still had a 20.4 micron and a CV of 19.9. I fell in love with PHA Peruvian Taos (his sire) when he was here in Wisconsin. Judge stated at the recent MOPACA show that he was a very close second and was very impressed with his long, healthy fleece that hand an excellent handle, something not often seen in greys to that extent. He has been showing as a 40 mth old this year and has had very limited competition yet had super nice comments from the judges that included "I doubt that there is a more robust male out there", "very little difference in micron throughout fleece", "perfect phenotype", "extreme staple especially given his age". Primus' first offspring is a black male from a black female. Super fine, dense fleece! Primus is going back to Nationals in 2020. He'll be 4 yrs and 4 mths old (52 mths) but I honestly can't see that his fleece has changed in the last 2 yrs! We have bred him a couple times for 2020 cria. We should have entered him in the mature males. Thought his retained fineness and no guard hairs would impress the judge, they did but she didn't take into account his being 1 1/2 yrs older than the others. Walking fleece he took 3rd! He is such a sweet, easy to handle guy.