Foundation Females
For all the attention a stud male might receive, his contribution is only half of the equation when it comes to the success of his progeny. The genetic impact of a strong female, combined with her contributions in supporting her cria's optimal development in utero and after birth are just as important. For a female to be considered for breeding within our program, she must display not only strong conformation traits with robust health; but also a sound, easy-to-work-with temperament emphasizing mothering traits. Females here do not begin their breeding careers until a minimum of 3-4 years of age, when they are fully mature and are at less risk of dividing their energy resources to growing and feeding cria, fleece, and themselves. This also allows us to monitor and collect data on their fleeces over time, so we can determine which qualities they will carry well into maturity as a baseline, and to allow for further monitoring as they navigate pregnancy through until weaning.
Available Females
As much as we would like, we are not able to retain every female we produce. As a small program, often many of the females we produce are too related to our small pool of males that we use within our herd.
Additionally, as with the males, those females which do not demonstrate enough of a balance of the traits we are looking to reproduce within our program may be offered available for purchase to the right home where her strengths may be better suited to meet their own breeding goals. While we may choose to retain older, retired females or females who do not meet our criteria for breeding but demonstrate strengths in other areas as aunts and of course, fibre shed producers— we may also release females such as these from time to time to the right home. Any registered female we release, regardless of breeding status, will be sold with her registration papers at no additional cost.