Meiomi was a much anticipated cria for several reasons. First, we were very excited to have Mondavi's first cria born on OUR farm. Second, we were curious to see what color this cria would be, since mom, Alex, is black and Mondavi has black in his pedigree. TOTAL SURPRISE--a patterned little girl!!
Well, maternal genetics came through on this one...grandma is a pinto and Meiomi is, too! BUT WAIT----after doing a little digging into Kahuna's offspring, we discovered that he DID sire 2 multicolored crias...never saw that coming! Now we know there is potential to produce patterns when we pair Mondavi with females who have pattern genetics in their pedigrees.
Meiomi is such a darling! We could not be happier with this little girl!!
*FEBRUARY 2022 UPDATE*
We are just AMAZED at what this little girl is doing with her fleece!! She has developed the MOST LUSTROUS, dense locks over the past couple of months. She has that cool, greasy feel and her fleece just absolutely SHINES! She is beautiful..and each color in her multi-colored fleece (white, medium fawn, medium brown/bay black) carries the same consistency of luster, organization and lock style. Like we said....AMAZING!
DEC 2024
We love this girl, but we need some barn space, so we are offering Meiomi for sale. She comes with a herd sire breeding of YOUR CHOICE! Meiomi has the potential to produce just about ANY color. Her dam is true black, her grand-dam is a pinto, her sire (Mondavi) carries black and grey genetics, so you can see this girl has TONS of potential. She can be bred in the spring to our newest herdsire, GLR Kodiak. He is grey, but has produced MANY appy crias in recent years. This could be FUN!!!