We were pleased to have added Silvercloud Farm's Danielle to our foundation herd here at Morning SKY Farm! Along with great conformation and calm temperament, Danielle exhibited a luxuriously soft and dense fleece, long staple length, and beautiful bundling, and her offspring have proved the same. Her fineness was characterized in the fleeces of the females in her lineage including her dam, ScF Eva, whose fiber stats at age 3 were 21.6 micron, SD 3.9 and CV 18.3. Her grand dam, PCA Santolina - a Hemingway daughter - also carried very fine fleece of 20 microns at age 6! Danielle's sire is Evander, who has put numerous knock-out, award winning progeny on the ground and into the show ring! Along with Evander, her background includes such notables as Hemingway, Magnum Gold, Altiplano Gold, and origins from the Alianza, Sollocota, and Macusani. Danielle effortlessly delivered her first cria - a strong, white girl with lovely fleece and beautiful conformation out of ScF Mint D'Or, an award winning El Nino son and Caligula grandson, on September 14th, 2008. Her cria, Morning Sky's Mint's Sweet Thing ("Sweetie") also carries the wonderfully calm temperament of her sire and dam! We expect both of these girls to continue passing on their conformation and fleece qualities for generations to come! Danielle's 2010 cria arrived on Mother's Day - a beige male by multiple champion Accoyo Craftsman. Design is solid in so many ways...square, big boned, straight legs, and endless curls of fleece from the top of his head down to his belly and covering his legs. He became a Color Champion with a fleece that is holding at 17.8 microns at his 4th shearing! Design was followed in 2011 by multiple blue ribbon winner, Morning SKY's Lenape, by Lancaster's Highland Chieftain. Lenape carries a very fine fleece, just like her dam - 16.7 microns as of her first shearing. Danielle's 2012 cria was by our own herdsire, Accoyo Angelis. Morning SKY's Legna (pronounced LAY-na; Angel spelled backwards) is yet another in an exciting string of offspring being produced by Angel! Legna has the same traits that Angel stamped on each offspring - solid bone, great conformation, and soft, dense volumes of fleece! We have not been disappointed yet! Danielle's July 2015 breeding to our white Color Champion, three time Reserve Champion and Fleece Judges' Choice winner, Morning SKY's Taddeo, produced a gorgeous beige female, Morning SKY's Elena, with great conformation and long, crimpy fleece with a high degree of brightness!
