Bandido has it all and will add genuine value to your growing herd – the Hemingway blend of incredible fiber and outstanding conformation. Extraordinarily handsome with chiseled symmetry, excellent crimp and fabulous density from head to toes.  His micron count was 20.3 at three years and he has continue to maintain a very fine fleece.  Easy to handle, a big, bold gentleman.  His offspring are awesome and he stamps a significant breed-up on the dam.  His dam, Benatton, was purchased by WestWool Alpacas in 1993, from the first import of Peruvian alpacas into North America, when she was two years old. Benatton turned out to be a great producer for WestWool over the years and as Mike Safely said "she is one of the best producing females brought into North America." Her early offspring won lots of ribbons for Northwest Alpacas including the a blue ribbon for Produce of Dam at 1998 AOBA conference. Bandido is a full brother to the famous Mister Antonio who was purchased by Magical Farms for $125,000 for half interest.

Bandido is co-owned with Signe Ostby of Valhalla Farms in California & Tom & Beth Berger of Suncoast Alpacas in Florida.

2003 Histogram:  AFD 21.6; SD 4.4; CV 20.4; % > 30 2.8 (at five years of age)

Awards:

1st Place at the California Alpaca Festival in the composite class.

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Skin Biopsy Result

By Jim Watts of SRS in Australia

Bandido - 102 months old white Huacaya male (JW0976)

Horizontal skin section (x 60 magnification) of wool follicle patterning in the

alpaca, Bandido.

The alpaca has high fibre (follicle) density. The primary fibres are fine in diameter. The secondary fibres are very fine and uniform in diameter and mostly free of medullation.  The follicle groups are closely packed and contain high numbers of wool follicles.

Density = 53.4 follicles per square millimetre

Primary fibre diameter = 27.5 microns

SD = 5.3 microns

Medullation = 100%

Secondary fibre diameter = 18.7 microns

SD = 3.0 microns

Medullation = 5%

S/P ratio = 12.2 to 1

Length = sample not submitted  8

Sire:  Peruvian Hemingway

World Famous Herdsire

Producer of Superior Offspring

 

Photo taken by Champion Alpacas

2001

 

We took these pictures in 2001 of Peruvian Hemingway when we went to pick up or girls after they had been bred.  He was covered in spit from the females in the background!