| PC Peruvian Knightrider | |
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The Champion, 2X AOBA National ribbon-winning, full Peruvian, true black
PC Peruvian Knightrider was an obvious choice to include on our list of quality, colored herdsires. The son of two
true black Peruvian imports, 5Peruvian
Black Ice and 6Peruvian Anastasia, Knightrider offers rare black West
Coast genetics in a magnificent package! Knightrider has excellent
conformation and beautiful dense, crimpy fiber with great staple length
and handle,
particularly for a mature black breeding male. He is producing quality
black, grey and brown offspring, even out of white and beige dams.
Knightrider will be at Thistledown for breedings in Virginia from
approximately November 15 - May 15 each year, spending the remainder of
his time in Maryland at Susquehanna Farms in Maryland. Limited
breedings available!
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| Ben MacDhui | |
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MacDhui
is descended from a long and impressive line of greys and blacks. His
sire, Request the Best, is one of the most spectacular grey herdsires in
the country, a multiple blue ribbon winner who placed first at the AOBA
Nationals for three successive years. From his black dam, MacDhui has
inherited perfect conformation and a grey and black pedigree going back
four generations, including SA Silverado and The Silversmith. MacDhui’s
most recent fiber analysis is AFD 22.3; SD 5.2; CV 23.3; % > 30 microns
= 8.6%. He is an extremely calm and good-natured herdsire, who rules the
pasture with his presence, not untoward aggression. MacDhui has incredibly
dense, medium silver grey fiber and AOBA winning genetics to go with his
gentle disposition and his first offspring hit the ground in 2003.
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| PV Nikos | |
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Nikos
is an exceptional, half-accoyo, showy son of the renowned half-accoyo silver
grey herdsire Aussie Rockford, owned by Peaceful Valley Alpacas in Oregon.
Nikos is also out of one of the top quality grey females in
the nation, Peaceful Valley Priya, bred and owned by Peaceful Valley
Alpacas. Both of these alpacas are highly regarded winners of numerous blue
ribbons. Nikos has outstanding conformation, a well-shaped beautiful head,
extreme coverage and a dense topknot. His fleece is very, very fine and
bright, with good architecture and a gorgeous dark silver grey color. He
has well-defined narrow crimp throughout his fiber - all the way up his
neck and into his topknot. Nikos
is one of the most eye-catching and stylish grey males we have ever seen, with
fantastic conformation, coverage, presence, movement and superb fiber. No
outside breedings - his
genetics are only available through his offspring.
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| LZD Tundra | |
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Our full Peruvian herdsire, Tundra, is an excellent white male with wonderful conformation, coverage and presence. To complete the package, he has a beautiful fleece, with extreme character, luster, bundling and great density. Produced from the ideal match, breeding Marcela, the dam of "Show Me The Money" and "Silver Dollar", to Presidio, an outstanding Caligula son, we are hoping that Tundra will produce color - his dam and sire have already produced some of the best colored alpacas in the nation. Presidio already has 6 "Get of Sire" wins to his credit and was 2nd in "Get of Sire" at the 2004 National Show. His crias had won over 50 color championships and 80 blue ribbons at Level 3+ shows by the time Presidio was only 7 years old, firmly establishing him among the elite ranks of prepotent sires. Marcela's two colored boys, "Mo" and the grey "Silver Dollar", are both exceptional colored herdsires, renowned for throwing top-of-the-line greys. In his first three shows, Tundra demonstrated that he too is destined for greatness, placing second in three very large, white, full-fleece halter classes, the most competitive classes of the alpaca world!
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Junior Herdsire Prospects
| Magnus Trujillo | |
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Magnus
is the last of his full Accoyo sire's line, and has fineness, crimp and
luster in abundance. He is particularly exciting for us, as the grey
markings around his face, and his dark toenails, combined with the color
in his heritage, suggest the potential to produce
elite-fibered colored alpacas. His dam, Goldie
is a full Peruvian light fawn female, with crimp, fineness, good
density and handle, and beautiful consistency to her fleece, which earned
her the second place ribbon in a very competitive 2003 AOBA Nationals fleece
show. A great mother and milker, Goldie has a perfect bite, solid conformation and a gorgeous
head and top knot, and is proven to produce colored offspring. Magnus was
sired by the full Accoyo Trujillo Alto Peru (deceased), an impressive son of
Ppperuvian Mr President and a medium fawn dam, 4Peruvian Eurynome.
Trujillo had incredible coverage and density, accompanied by a consistent, tight
crimp, and at 5
years of age, his fiber was still exquisite - 18.6 AFD with an SD of 3.9 and
0.7 % of fibers over 30 micron. We intend to use Magnus as a herdsire
in our colored breeding program.
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| Thistledown's Cameron Rush | |
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Cameron
Rush is a beautiful medium silver grey
male with barely a spot on him anywhere. He weighed 21 lb 12 oz at birth,
is healthy and full of energy, and has bone like an ox. With his fine
and very long-stapled,
soft-handled, uniform grey fiber, excellent bone structure and coverage,
perfect bite and remarkable presence, Cameron has "herdsire"
stamped all over him!
His sire, our Champion grey Ben MacDhui, is a consistent producer
of quality, colored progeny - his offspring that have been shown have
won first, second or third place ribbons at Level III AOBA-certified shows
or above. Ishbel, Cameron's dam, has tremendous presence and the most
beautiful fine, soft-handled dark silver grey fiber, with amazing staple
length. This
multiple award-winning female also boasts heavy bone, awesome coverage, compact, typey conformation and a
perfect bite. Ish comes from many generations of fine blacks and greys on
both sides of her pedigree. At her 5th shearing as a breeding dam, she
produced over 5 inches of fine, soft-handled fiber, suitable for making
into high quality yarn. A half interest in Cameron is available
for sale, and this is one junior herdsire prospect
you really should not pass up if you are interested in blacks and greys
that produce quality fiber over the long term!
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