Last but so very far from least of our animals (as well as the final lot of the sale) is this member of a very prepotent maternal line from the CCNF foundation herd. Both Sugar Cube’s dam, Sugar Snow, and her older sister, Sugar Drop (a Messiah daughter on her paternal side) are locked into…
When Dark Angel was born we initially thought we had a brown cria, though as she has matured and more white fibers have come into her fleece it has become clear that she will end up riding that line between being an indefinite dark or a modern grey. Though on paper one could argue that…
We’re back again after spending the last few days in the trenches getting our animals (and all the fleece displays for the entire lineup of 70 lots) packed up and on the road. Yours truly boards a plane to OKC tomorrow. Jen and the boys follow crack of dawn on Thursday. It’s on baby. Please…
The story of this spectacular young Herdsire has its origins in our original partnership with Don & Julie Skinner on the North American Alpaca Stud. You see part of that deal in the summer of 2002 was the acquisition of 70 +/- females, many of them older imports that Julie had selected herself in Peru….
This post was supposed to go up yesterday but I was mired in Photoshopland (making up placards for the NEAA fleece display boxes), a place to which I shall be returning shortly. Anyway… Over the years it has sometimes been a struggle to present a good range of genetic diversity for us at the Elite,…
The summer of 2010 was the birthing season when we found out what one our newest and shiniest alpaca toys was capable of producing! MFI Peruvian Precocious came to us in 2009 with all sorts of promise—not least of which was the fact that in addition to his general yumminess, he was unrelated to 95%…
