| Brianna ....... half-accoyo Champion granddaughter of Yupanqui and Felix! | |
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Brianna
is a rare light silver grey half-accoyo daughter of Aussie Rockford, the
grey herdsire who placed first at the 2001 AOBA Nationals in both adult
male halter and the fleece show - quite an
accomplishment! Rockford's fiber is dense, crimpy and fine, with a micron count of
21.1/5.0/23.7/4.4 in his third year. Brianna's dam is a solid black half-accoyo
sired by Ppperuvian
Yupanqui, and her grandsire on her father's
side is the renowned Pperuvian Felix. Brianna is very straight, with a
magnificently pretty and typey head. She has extremely dense fleece,
which is fine, with a very defined, tight crimp. Brianna is an exceptional female with breathtaking
fiber, bred with the silver grey Champion Ben
MacDhui in Spring 2008.
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| Misty ....... Champion grey Michelangelo daughter! | |
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A
granddaughter of the top west coast grey herdsire Fantasy's Gremlin and
the renowned Pperuvian Guellermo, Misty
is a stunning silver grey girl, stocky and solid, with excellent
conformation and proud presence. Her fiber is fine (23.0 AFD at age 11
months) and bright,
with fabulous staple length and a tight little crimp. She is heavily
fibered down to her toes and has a wooly, typey head. Her dam, Fabia, is a
beautiful and correct silver Chilean and her half-Peruvian black sire,
Michelangelo, is a blue ribbon winner whose dam is a fine-fibered silver.
At the 2000 Alpacapalooza the international judge said of Michelangelo,
"From the minute he entered the ring, there was no other presence
such as his", and he is producing show-stopping offspring, including
the 2002 AOBA Champion, "Onyx De Mico". Misty was bred with
the silver grey Champion Ben MacDhui in Spring
2008.
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| Ishbel ....... multiple blue ribbon-winning dark silver grey Peruvian Luciano daughter! | |
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Luciano's
Ishbel arrived the week before Hurricane Isabel, hence her
name, which is the Scottish form of Isabel. This half-Peruvian
bombshell is a Danko & Platinum granddaughter, who has inherited four generations of world class grey and black
ancestry from her dam, Hisami, a gorgeous black Danko daughter with extremely fine (20.3
AFD), soft-handled fleece, and great coverage. Ishbel's sire is El R Peruvian Luciano, a full Peruvian medium rose grey son of
the renowned Peruvian
Platinum (deceased). Luciano is a multiple blue ribbon-winner, with an adult micron count of 19.3 and 2.3% of fibers
over 30 at his 3rd shearing. His density and handle are excellent, he has
a full topknot on a true to type huacaya head and a calm temperament with
great presence. Shown
as bay black for two years, Ish has now turned dark silver grey, and with her fine,
dense, long-stapled fiber, heavy bone, compact, typey conformation and perfect bite, Ish is one girl we expect to keep!
Ishbel was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV
Nikos in Spring 2008.
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| Thistledown's Kerensa Compadre ....... black Compadre daughter! | |
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With
four black grandparents and a very strong heritage of top quality color,
Kerensa is a beautiful
black girl with excellent conformation and fiber character - her blanket
is just a mass of tight, shiny curls!
Her dam, Demelza is our MaPaca
ribbon-winning 3/4 Peruvian "black in brown clothing", who
exhibits excellent conformation and stature, dense fleece
with outstanding crimp, plus coverage from tip to toe. Kerensa is a
Cornish name, meaning love and affection, and she is, if anything, even
sweeter than her
dam in temperament, so the name suits her very well! Kerensa is sired by Patagonia's
Compadre, a "double black" son of Caballero Andante from Alpacas
de la Patagonia. At 2 years of age, Compadre had a fiber analysis of 20.6
AFD, 3.4 SD, 16.5 CV and 1.2% > 30 microns, with an 8lb shearing weight
- these are phenomenal numbers for a true black out of two blacks. Kerensa
was bred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra,
in Fall 2007.
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| Lakisha ....... 3/4 Peruvian true black daughter of brown AOBA & MAPACA Champion! | |
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If
you have ever seen CPeruvian LB Remington, as we did at MaPaca in 2001,
you would understand our excitement about having his true black 3/4
Peruvian daughter, Lakisha, in our foundation herd! Remington is one of
those males that stops you dead in your tracks and makes you spin around
on your heel for a second look. He has phenomenal macho presence, conformation, serious coverage,
density and crimp, and a wonderful mellow
temperament. Lakisha's dam is a true black granddaughter of Peruvian
Chocolateer and The Silversmith, with very good conformation and coverage,
plus great handle and staple length. Lakisha has wonderful solid, square,
typey conformation, with excellent density and handle to her fiber and a
perfect bite. In November 2007 she produced her first cria, Boadicca, a
stunning true black female, and Lakisha has proven herself to be a
wonderful mother and milker. Lakisha was bred with our award-winning
Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.
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| Lady ....... true black daughter of the black 2004 Futurity Reserve Champion! | |
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Lady
is the third black daughter from her extraordinary mother, Spanish Peaks
Madison Avenue and the first offspring of Nova's Black Knight III, the
2004 Futurity Reserve Champion and son of the legendary true black
Snowmass Nova. Black Knight placed above 4 other Snowmass Nova sons at the
2004 Futurity, all of whom had placed at the top of their classes. He has
superfine, dense, uniform, bundled black fiber - his first two shearings
both had an AFD of less than 20 microns. Lady has her father's elegant,
calm presence and excellent conformation. Her fleece is lustrous, velvety
soft, and full of uniform crimp. This little girl is a powerhouse of top genetics for fleece quality and for black color. Her father's lineage includes Bueno, Drambuie, Snowmass Peruvian Casanova (rose grey), Black Knight PC G222 and Zorro PC G188 (the latter being two of the finest black alpacas ever to be imported into the US). On her mother's side are Felix and Outback Gold. Her mother has gorgeous fleece with a CV of 13.2 and SD of 3.6 at 2 years of age, giving it a satiny sheen and silk-like handle. Lady was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos for a Fall 2008 cria. |
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| Thistledown's Iona Jaxon ....... superfine black daughter of Champion black sire! | |
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Iona
is a sleek and shiny, half-Peruvian, jet black Jaxon / Danko granddaughter. CPeruvian Jaxon
is a nationally renowned
black Peruvian herdsire and Danko is possibly the top grey herdsire in
the country. Her dam is Hisami, an extremely fine true black Danko
daughter (20.3 AFD @ 11 months), with beautiful soft-handled fleece, a
lovely typey head, very nice conformation and a friendly, curious nature.
Iona's maternal grandmother is a "blue black" Macintosh
daughter, with two generations of black in her background and an AFD of
24.4 at 4 years of age. Iona's sire is the 4X Champion true black Peruvian CPeruvian Axtion Jaxon, who has a remarkable show record
and superfine, crimpy fleece. In his first year AJ's fiber analysis was AFD 18.4, SD 3.7, CV
20.0, >30 1.4%, which is phenomenal for a true black, and he has won
numerous first place and Championship ribbons in major halter and fleece
competitions, including first place black fleece at the 2003 AOBA National
Fleece Show. Iona was bred with our award-winning Peruvian Presidio
son, Tundra, in Fall 2007.
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| Thistledown's Boadicca Nikos.......true black daughter of 3X Champion half-accoyo grey sire! | |
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This
jet black daughter of our 3X Champion dark silver grey male Nikos, and a multiple award-winning true black
dam, is named after Boadicca, the Celtic warrior Queen
who defeated the Romans in Britain, and whose name means victory. Boadicca
is exactly what we are breeding for in black - solid, non-fading and true.
She is so black it is difficult to make out any features on her at all! Her fiber
is dense and curly with handle like velvet. Her dam is Lakisha, daughter
of the 5X Champion brown male, CPeruvian LB Remington. Lakisha has beautiful,
square, heavy-boned conformation and excellent fiber density - her
show-skirted, juvenile blanket weighed over 4lbs. Boadicca's sire is our
half-Accoyo grey male, Nikos, whose 30 month shearing was awarded 20/20
points for fineness and hand by Diana Timmerman when he won Reserve
Champion grey fleece at MAPACA 2006. A grandson of Accoyo Felix and Accoyo
Yupanqui, Nikos also won the halter Championship out of 33 grey males at
the 2005 Virginia Classic, a blue ribbon in halter at MAPACA 2005 under
Julio Sumar, and Best Multi/Grey fiber in show at the huge OABA Spinoff.
He holds fineness over time and offers excellent quality in colored
fiber. Awards: Too young to show until Fall 2008. |
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| Thistledown's Nerys Cairngorm | |
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Born
on May 1st, 2008, Nerys is the healthy 19lb
solid black granddaughter of Accoyo Yupanqui (white), and multiple
Champion silver grey, Request the Best. Her dam, Bronwen is the half Accoyo
daughter of two full Peruvian whites, who showed as a white
at MAPACA. Bronwen was bred with our silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui in the
hope of producing color. Their black daughter, Nerys, feels very fine and dense, with a silky soft handle,
and very
consistent coloring. She does not appear to have any white spots anywhere
on her body and is growing like a weed! Her name is Welsh for
"Lady" and Cairngorm represents her sire, MacDhui, named after
the tallest mountain in the Cairngorm mountain range in Scotland. Awards: Too young to show until Spring 2009. |
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| Thistledown's Meliora Cairngorm | |
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This outrageously dense and crimpy black daughter of brown halter Champion, Holly Hawk, and silver grey
Champion, Ben MacDhui, arrived on
May 20th, 2008. Meliora is the second black daughter Dhui has produced for us
this Spring! Her name is derived from the Latin "melior",
meaning "better", and is also a name strongly associated with
Cornwall, where there is a church named after St. Meliorius. This little
lady is a bright and playful character, who looks to have excellent
conformation and coverage and a fleece so dense she had to have a complete
body shearing less than a week after she was born. Her Champion parents
are two of our most densely-fibered alpacas, and we expect Meliora to
remain in our foundation herd. Awards: Too young to show until Spring 2009.
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| Paradigm ....... award-winning rose grey Checkoff daughter! | |
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A
daughter of the rose grey Checkoff and a maroon dam from the '98 import,
Paradigm is a very beautiful dark rose grey female. Her sire Checkoff, a son of the famous Majestado of Peru, has all the
characteristics of a quality herdsire - strong bone, incredible presence,
excellent conformation and coverage from head to toe. Checkoff has
absolutely amazing fiber, with excellent uniformity and fineness, incredible
density and a consistent bold crimp. Paradigm's dam, Paraguari, is a top
quality production female with excellent mothering abilities, who has maintained a fine fleece, with excellent uniformity and luster -
her fiber was still being shown when she was 6 years old, and still
winning over full Peruvian fleeces! Paradigm has fine fiber, with
beautiful handle, excellent staple length and a bold crimp. Her bone
structure is substantial, her conformation balanced, and she has great
coverage. Paradigm was bred with the silver grey Champion Ben
MacDhui in Spring 2008.
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| Holly Hawk - Champion daughter of fawn and black Champion parents! | |
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Holly Hawk
is a beautiful dark brown, 7/8 Peruvian Champion, sired by the nationally acclaimed black Champion CPeruvian Black Hawk, who was imported in
utero, and introduced a rare
Peruvian bloodline to the U.S. Black
Hawk won two consecutive black championships at Estes Park in 2000 and
2001, and first place fleece at the AOBA Nationals and Estes Park in 2001.
He is producing Champion offspring, and Holly is no exception! Holly's
light fawn dam, Clementine, is also a Champion, and a daughter of CPeruvian
Jaxon, another
renowned black Peruvian imported male. Holly was bred with our 3X
Champion dark silver grey PV Nikos in Spring
2008.
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| Spring Blush ....... full Peruvian daughter of maroon 3X Champion! | |
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The
full Peruvian maroon daughter of two maroon parents, Blush offers exactly
the kind of quality and rare color we value in our breeding program. Her sire, King Crimson, is the Champion full Peruvian maroon
son of two true maroon parents. King has won numerous halter and
fleece awards at regional and national level, including Best Hand, Best
Luster and Best Brightness awards for his magnificent fiber. Blush's dam,
Peruvian Daphne, is the rare true maroon daughter of two 6Peruvian
imports. Daphne also possesses excellent fiber quality, strong, square
conformation and a beautiful huacaya head. Blush produced an award-winning
maroon daughter sired by the 2X
Champion, 4X blue ribbon-winning silver grey Legend's Challenger of KPR in
2005, and is an excellent mother and milker. Blush was rebred with our
award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra, in
Fall 2007.
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| Noelani ....... full sister to Champion rose grey, McGinnis! | |
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Noelani means "beautiful girl" in Hawaiian, and she is
certainly that. Coming from a strong line of consistent genetics and
award-winners, Lani is a full sister to the Champion rose grey, McGinnis,
who sired a 2004 National Champion and a 2005 Futurity Champion. Noelani
inherits Augusto and Hemingway genetics from her dam, and her sire is a
rose grey son of Peruvian King. Lani has soft, fine, crimpy maroon fiber and strong potential to
produce quality grey/black offspring. Her first cria wass the rose grey
Lennox from a breeding to silver grey, and she is a wonderful mother. Lani
was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV
Nikos in Spring 2008.
Awards: Lani was shown once in full fleece halter at the 2006 Buckeye show, placing fourth, but she was by far the youngest in the class, being only 2 weeks over the age limit to show as a yearling. |
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| Thistledown's Brigit of Legend....... maroon daughter of 2X Champion silver grey! | |
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Brigit
is the absolute image of
her award-winning true maroon dam, Spring Blush, who has fine,
soft-handled crimpy fiber and is the
full Peruvian daughter of two maroon parents, and a granddaughter of 5Peruvian Camelot. This little 3/4 Peruvian girl is sired by
the Champion silver grey, Legend's
Challenger, who has dense fiber, excellent
staple length and fineness, and crimp from tip to toe. After he had been breeding
for 6 months, this outstanding son of 5Peruvian Royal Inca Legend had a 2
year histogram of 20.9 / 4.5 / 21.5 / 4.0 and his blanket alone weighed
over 5lbs. Named after an ancient Irish Goddess, whose name is derived
from the Irish word "brigh", meaning strength, Brigit was up and running around the pasture shortly
after her unassisted delivery. A gorgeous true maroon with black
points, wonderful fineness and crimp, plus a handle like velvet, Brigit is the
result of an outside breeding, and we plan to keep her for our foundation herd. Brigit
was bred with our 3X Champion dark silver grey PV
Nikos in Spring 2008.
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| DSF Iris ....... award-winning daughter of Champion rose grey, McGinnis! | |
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Iris is the brown / recessive black
daughter of the Champion rose grey, McGinnis, who sired both the grey
Color Champion female at the 2004 AOBA Nationals, and the 2005 grey
Futurity Champion female, who went on to sell in the Futurity auction for $80,000!
McGinnis has excellent, soft, crimpy rose grey fiber and a reputation for
producing quality offspring.
Iris is a very attractive female, with soft-handled crimpy fiber, wonderful staple length, and good coverage. She is very balanced, with straight legs, lovely overall conformation and a perfect bite. She inherits her even, rich, brown coloring from her 3/4 Peruvian dam, and has excellent potential to throw quality black and grey. We actually prefer to breed our grey males to solid, dark-colored females with a grey heritage, to produce grey and black offspring. Iris should grow up to be an important asset in any breeding program, and as we watch her develop, we are leaning towards keeping her for ours! Iris was bred with our silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui, in Fall 2007.
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| Caterina ....... half-accoyo Champion granddaughter of Camilio and Victor's VAccoyo! | |
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A
half Accoyo granddaughter of Accoyo
Camilio and Victor's VAccoyo, Caterina is well-furnished in beautifully marked fleece, conformationally correct and
nicely balanced with good bone. Her fiber is just gorgeous - bright, with
well-defined crimp extending to the ends and consistent throughout her
blanket. The 2003 fiber analysis of her brown fleece only, was 21.8 AFD, 4.1 SD, 18.8 CV and 2.2
> 30 microns. Cat has an outstanding solid maroon sire,
and a dark fawn dam who both shear 8lbs of fiber annually. Her dam is
the winner of
many blue ribbons and two reserve championships, and a daughter of Victor
VAccoyo, who is no longer available for outside breedings. Cat has an irresistible,
well-shaped head and wooly topknot, a light brown skirt, matching shoes,
earrings, eyeliner and freckles! She was rebred with our true black full
Peruvian Champion, Knightrider, in Spring
2008.
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| Thistledown's Nola Mavericka....... Champion daughter of Champion Peruvian sire ! | |
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This
beautiful, MAPACA fleece Champion is the daughter of Champion pinto herdsire, Peruvian
Maverick, and our MaPaca blue ribbon-winning pinto, Fiona. She is also half
sister to the 2005 Virginia Classic brown female Champion, Thistledown's
Myfanwy.
Nola is a rare, 7/8 Peruvian brown, black and white
"tricolor" - her head, neck, body and back legs are brown, her
nose, ears, eyes and gums are black, and her front legs are white, with
little brown shoes on each front foot and spots on her knees. VERY cute!
She also has two full Peruvian black grandparents (Peruvian Matador and
Black Jack Jax sired by 4Peruvian Black Magic). Nola
is one of the most gentle, even-tempered alpacas we have ever owned. Her
name means
"famous" and is also a pet form of
the Irish name Fionnghuala. Nola is absolutely covered
with crimpy, dense, lustrous fiber, and just brimming over with presence and style!
She was rebred with our true
black full Peruvian Champion, Knightrider,
in Spring 2008.
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| Thistledown's Agnes.......daughter of true black Champion Peruvian sire and 4X blue ribbon dam! | |
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Agnes
is a striking and unusual fawn and white pinto female, with excellent
conformation, soft lustrous fiber, black markings on her face and four
little brown shoes! Her dam, Aurora, is a beautiful girl with outstanding conformation and beautiful
fiber, who won a blue ribbon every time she set foot in a show ring.
She also won a blue ribbon for her fleece at MaPaca 2004. Aurora is a Peruvian Mr President granddaughter, and her sire is the
grey Patagonia's Ulysses, who had an AFD of 21 microns in his seventh
year. Agnes is sired by Knightrider, our full Peruvian Champion black male, who has
excellent density, crimp and handle and wonderful conformation and
presence. Knightrider is a Champion, 5X blue
ribbon-winner and 2X AOBA National ribbon winner. Agnes was bred with
our award-winning Peruvian Presidio son, Tundra,
in Fall 2007. Awards: Agnes placed third in halter at the 2008 Virginia Classic, her first show. |
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| Yupanqui's Bronwen ....... award-winning half-accoyo proven to produce black! | |
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Bronwen is a full
Peruvian, half accoyo female, with dark eyes and toenails, and dark markings
around her nose, head and ears. Her award-winning dam, Jewel, is the only white offspring of 5Peruvian
Chinchero, a true
black herdsire imported from the Maychapampa herd in Peru. Jewel's
dam, Marcela, produced the famous grey herdsire Silver Dollar,
and the nationally respected fawn herdsire, Show Me the Money. Bronwen's
sire is Ppperuvian Accoyo Yupanqui (deceased), the number one pick of the 1996
importation, who has produced multiple ribbon winners in a whole rainbow
of colors. At 11 years of age, Yupanqui's fiber analysis was 24.0; 4.6;
18.9 and 7.4 > 30 microns, with wonderful crimp and a handle comparable
to many yearlings. Bronwen has produced two true black females, from
breedings with our Champion "double black" herdsire, Peruvian
Knightrider, and our silver grey Champion, Ben MacDhui. She was rebred
with Knightrider in Spring 2008.
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