I just love this little girl, she is growing nicely and should be mature enough for breeding this fall. She has better fleece than her dam in character and fineness. Her Dam is nothing to sneeze at with the fineness at ten years of age she still holds a micron count of 24, she just doesn't carry the density and crimp like Chia. Chia is a jump in quality over her Dam, given her Sire, it has been expected, he is extremely dense and fine, all of his cria's to date (all girls) have been far better than their Dams.
Here are the stat's from the EPD Estimator for this breeding for cria in 2022
Trait Sire Dam Progeny Estimate
Average Fiber Diameter -2.152 -0.048 -1.1
Standard Deviation (AFD) -0.511 -0.064 -0.287
Spin Fineness -2.186 -0.039 -1.113
Percent of Fibers Larger Than 30 Microns -7.747 -1.054 -4.401
Mean Curvature 4.286 -1.055 1.615
Standard Deviation of Curvature 1.889 -0.368 0.76
Percent Medullation -2.501 -1.234 -1.867
Mean Staple Length -5.451 -2.787 -4.119
Fleece Weight -0.244 -0.159 -0.202
Birth Weight -0.075 0.298 0.111