Huacaya Alpacas

Very feminine girl with a spectrum of color genetics--from her beige/fawn Snowmass dam to her True Black sire. Atole has a quiet, shy, curious nature. Her dam is a very good mother, and I expect Atole to have excellent maternal instincts as well. Although Atole is only 10 months old, she has shown quite a biit of interest in the opposite sex. She will be one year old in late May, and we will breed her then with an eye to her first cria to come in May or June, 2025. Birth weight 17 lbs 12 oz

This bay black girl really turned heads at her first show this fall--including the head of the judge, who awarded her a Blue Ribbon and the Black Color Championship her first time in the ring! Iquique (ee-KEY-kay) follows in the footsteps of her dark brown full sister, Chukulati, who took several championships and blue ribbons and is now happily pregnant (by Eclipse Alyst) on a ranch in Oregon. Iquique has a perfect, squared conformation that she gets from her illustrious black sire, Dundee's AJ Stormcat--also known for his retention of fineness and perfect teddy-bear head, She has bright, BRIGHT black fleece with a lovely soft handle and nicely defined bundling. And who can resist that "Got Milk?" face? Iquique now has a CC and RC in halter, and is the proud mother of 3 offspring, each gorgeous with sweet personalities. Her daughter, Tarapaca, followed in her dam's footprints with a CC in halter her first time in the ring. Iquique is now spitting off to our outstanding fawn male, MRN Mas Snowmas (lots of Matrix and Snowmass Quechua going on in there!) for a cria in mid July, 2025. Pregnancy not yet confirmed by Progesterone or ultrasound.

Arica has grown up to be a lovely girl with fine, consistent fleece characteristics that the judges have admired. Check out her EPDs! She brings good potential for color genetics from her fawn sire, an Alpamayo Studmaster son, and from her brown dam from the Studmaster program. She comes with a breeding to any of our males, or you can use the breeding for another female. For her first breeding we took advantage of her excellent consistency of fleece and bred her to our outstanding herdsire, Accoyo America Hawkeye. This daughter. Lauca, is now one of our foundation females and she is fantastic! A white female with outstanding fine bundling, brightness, and her conformation is perfect. We followed up with a breeding to Derwydd El Nino's Accoyo Manchu, and she produced a Knock-Out champion beige male, Sun Tzu (named for his maternal grandfather). Next bred to Snowmass Best N Grace, a large male with long, draping staples and perfect conformation, and produced our MRN El Maximo (sold). Arica's 2018 cria by multi-champ MRN Prime Starrr arrived Dec. 5. This boy has show ring possibilities--medium fawn with popcorn fleece, excellent crimp and brightness! One of the things I love about Prime Starrr is his long staple length--I think he has passed this on to his son. Until the cria is weaned in the spring, Arica will sell with her cria. For her next breeding, we'd suggest our Snowmass Matrix son, MRN Matrix Lord of Sipan. He is a compact fawn male with loads of long, crimpy, fine staples. This year he sheared nearly 12% of his body weight! Arica has a pleasing personality and she is a dedicated mother with lots of milk. She is a perfect foundation female. We always said that she was the prettiest cria on the farm where she was born, and even after 4 crias she looks like a lovely young maiden. Arica has made the move to Alpacas of Marin, in the north San Francisco Bay area.

Lauca was declared the best cria of the season by an experienced evaluator of alpacas. She is a very feminine girl with perfect conformation--good bone and balance, and bright white fleece with medium frequency crimp. She has an incredibly heavy fleece, and has been in the top 1% EPD for fleece weight for 6 years and counting... Her 2019 cria scored 20 out of 20 points for fleece weight in the 2020 National Fleece Show, proof that this is a heritable trait! She is a wonderful mother for her cria this year--lots of milk and her daughter grew rapidly! All of Lauca's crias are big--each has been 21 lbs or more at birth and gain around a pound a day. She has had no problems with her births--her first took a while (2 hrs) but was uncomplicated. To be honest, we missed her next 2 births--we came out to the barnyard and she presented us with a healthy, standing cria! Lauca is a calm, dignified lady, unafraid of humans and will eat out of your hand. Lauca comes with a breeding. We'd definitely suggest a re-breed to our champion Matrix grandson, Snowmass Cold Cash, who brings incredible fineness and uniformity of micron to the mix. Her last cria by Cold Cash, Chungara, is gorgeous! Lauca is at our Marin County farm in the North San Francisco Bay area.

How many alpacas do you know that have improved their histograms with age? Take a look at our Chimu. Her AFD dropped to 15.9 microns at 2 1/2 years old! But, you expect the exceptional from a girl whose sire is the illustrious 6P Accoyo Titan (you know... he sold for $250,000 at 12 years of age...) And like her famous father, Chimu has an exceptionally pleasing personality, as you can see. Chimu is very fine, has a medium frame, and bright white fleece with good architecture. Bred to our Hemi-Accoyo Nautilus son Accoyo America Tempest, (excellent bone, fabulously fine, and density like a coat of armor!), we are anticipating an outstanding cria in 2011!

Moka is confirmed by ultrasound to be pregnant, due early March 2018!

If you are serious about breeding alpacas to meet the demands of a large-scale American fiber industry, then you should seriously consider breeding your females to Accoyo America Tempest! At 7 years ...

Torrefacto--it's a delicious Spanish coffee bean that is finely coated in sugar before roasting. Yumm! That describes our Torrefacto to a "T"! He's a true black son of our Champion black herds...

The stars aligned just right, and Lord of Sipan was the result. We happened to have our full-Accoyo Poseidon daughter (with fawn genetics) in Virginia, at Double O Good Alpacas (home of Matrix), t...

Prime Starrr, aka "Rocky", is a compact male with a correct, sturdy, proud conformation, and knock-out fleece. Take a look at his 2017 histogram: at 2 1/2 years of age his AFD is 20, spin fineness 19...

We are thrilled beyond belief to have a top quality Renaissance Ridge grey herdsire in our lineup! It was a great opportunity for us, and we jumped at it! Donatello has the softest handle--the most ...

Wow! This is one of the best huacayas we have ever produced! His fleece is BRIGHT with beautiful popcorn bundles and high frequency crimp. Mas Snowmas is the culmination of a series of breeding...

Ultima is both adorable and beautiful. Her heritage is squarely in the Snowmass lineup--her dam is a daughter of high-selling Snowmass Matrix and her sire is Snowmass Best Man, who sold to a farm in Switzerland in the 2012 Snowmass auction for a pretty penny! Ultima carries fawn genetics: her maternal grand dam is fawn and her dam produced fawn by a fawn male. Ultima has a fawn spot on her very pretty face. She has a beautiful long staple with excellent crimp, bright fine fleece, and a luscious handle. Her conformation is perfect--she really could fit into a box! And she has a lovely wedge-shaped head. Take a look at her outstanding EPDs each year--there's a lot of "top 1%" listings in there! She has been an excellent mother to her first cria, a male who took blue ribbons in his first 3 shows and is going on to a breeding career in Colorado. Ultima's 2019 cria by MRN Matrix Lord of Sipan is a fantastic light fawn male. Because he is a heavy line breed, both on Snowmass Matrix and on Snowmass Quechua, we have named him Mas Snowmas. This breeding turned out so well, we are repeating it with a cria due in late May, 2020! Ultima is on our farm in Marin County, in the North San Francisco Bay area.

This girl weighed 26.6 lbs at birth. 50 lbs at 1 month, and 65 lbs at 2 months! More importantly, she is absolutely gorgeous, with dense, well-organized, buttery bundles exhibiting excellent crimp and fleece architecture, way down towards the belly. Nice staple length, too. Chungara is beige, with a tiny medium brown spot on her back, so she should be able to produce darker colors. She is my first alpaca to take full points, 20/20 in weight at the AOA National Fleece Show and the PAOBA fleece show. One judge commented on the good skirting, so that weight is all good fleece! And she's a sweetheart, to boot--Very calm and unafraid of humans. I was looking forward to taking Chungara into the show ring, but COVID came and she "sat out" her show seasons. Now, she's ready to breed. She comes with a breeding to any of our males--I'd suggest a line breed on Matrix with our Lord of Sipan. Or try our Nautilus son, Accoyo America Tempest. And, if you are developing a breeding program, I'd discount a package of Chungara with her dam, Hawkey's Lauca. The two are very close, and would love to stay together.