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,…
So the last time we sold a male of this quality and color profile was at the National Elite in 2008 when CCNF Silver Vector went on the block. The reality is that we don’t have enough unrelated and dark colored females to make proper use of a Herdsire like Cacao within our breeding program….
