Huacaya Alpacas Sold

We call Peony "Little Flower" -- always have and always will. But when you look at all the famous "P's" in her name, Plantel and Pachacuti, we needed a P name for her. Little Flower is a very proven female, and is a great dam. She even produces, when bred to Dually, that rare "pattern" that gray breeders seek out, which is the topline of light fawn in an otherwise white fleece. And yes, her daughter was bred to gray and produced a gray offspring. To be honest, I have not got any current adult images of Little Flower but she is one fearless alpaca and, if she senses a threat, she takes point along with our LGDs! She is 7/8 Accoyo but that is not why we have her on our foundation herd list. She is there because she is a great dam whose offspring are quite amazing. We are planning to breed her to our fawn Dually son this fall, if timing is right!

Hidden Hill Accoyo Affirmation is a home run, with the conformation both her sire and dam possess, as well as the signature fineness and fleece character of her late, great sire, our own 6Peruvian Accoyo Powerball, one of the three known B Line Accoyos to be imported to the US. Her dam is sired by MFI Peruvian Accoyo Avalanche whose sire was Ppperuvian Mr. President and grandsire was 4P. Presidente. Thus, Affirmation has some of the finest of the A Line Accoyos in her dam's lineage. Affirmation was Powerball's very last cria, so parting with her will be difficult for us, even though we do have several of his daughters in our herd. She is the very image of her sire, but is decidedly feminine in appearance. We happen to believe the very best breeding for Affirmation is right here in our own barn, as we now 6P Accoyo Tsunami, without doubt the most famous of the B Line Accoyo males, and literally exemplifying Don Julio Barreda's goals in starting the B or Select Line. At seventeen, Tsunami still has a high frequency fleece with grade two secondary fiber, and grade three primaries (and they are NOT straight). Based on the three absolutely stunning full Accoyo females sired by Tsunami we have thus far -- including one that, like Affirmation, is a Powerball daughter -- we know that doubling down on the B Line is the way to go with this gorgeous female! Of course, she sells with a breeding!

When you double down on the B Line Accoyo, you can get some really stunning results. We have been blessed to have had two of the import B Line Accoyo males in our program over the years. C'est Si Bon's dam is one of our "collectible" full Accoyo Powerball daughters. Bred to Accoyo Godfather, she produced one of the very finest Godfather sons, who worked out to be his last offspring ever. Bred to Accoyo Tsunami, we got C'est Si Bon and when I saw this female, I could hear the strains of the old tune sung by Chevalier. Hence, C'est Si Bon was her name. That was easy! We have to say that some of our finest fleeces, bar none, have been on the backs of our Tsunami offspring here. As a result, they have sold all too handily to people looking for something truly elite that, based on the sire's fleece, is likely to remain so for many years. Tsunami is still working but we won't risk his being moved east again. Our weather swings were a bit too hard on a boy that was used to living in Los Angeles, CA for so long, I think. So, Tsunami offspring, full Accoyo or otherwise, will be rare here in the east. Now, like her dam, C'est Si Bon has a DARK BROWN spot. Heck, her dam has a HUGE MF spot such that she showed as a multi! It does not worry me in the slightest, really and, in fact, it tells me that, if a full Accoyo breeder were to buy our girl, they should be seeking to put her with one of the very best fawn full Accoyo males out there (and hint: we have access to one for her). It is not for everyone, but it is a discreet spot and I can pull it out and wind up with a very pleasing fleece indeed. Part C'est Si Bon's fleece and you will see a glorious high frequency crimp style everywhere, lots of brightness and primary fibers that have character. If you have steered clear of full Accoyos because you do not care for the bolder crimp styles, well, you won't see them on our Tsunami offspring. These are fleeces that an Alianza aficionado could love in a heartbeat! C'est Si Bon is beautifully proportioned, possessed of excellent conformation and a pleasing headstyle and great coverage. She also has a winsome yet feisty personality, if disposition is a factor for you! C'est Si Bon sells with a free breeding. We also have some "off-farm" opportunities on this one that might surprise you. We also will have a nice (not full Accoyo) option that we are not going to reveal at this time, but he will be a REAL boon to anyone seeking out elite fleece, so definitely STAY TUNED. There are not a lot of full Accoyos that derive at least 3/4 of their Accoyo heritage from B-Lines out there, so she is a rare deal indeed!!

Go directly to the head of the class! Ado Annie is every inch a Caligula's Casanova daughter. With maternal and paternal grandsires (Alianza) Hemingway and (Accoyo) Caligula, just on pedigree alone this little girl should be of great interest. However, if aiming for elite dark colors, Ado Annie should be of even greater value, as her full brother, HHF Casanova's Boomer Sooner, is producing blue-ribbon-winning black and solid gray offspring for his owners, and all these offspring are carrying the typeyness of their grandsire, our own Caligula's Casanova. Even Boomer's white offspring are placing at large shows. Annie has the heavy black eyeliner, dark palate and black toenails that would make her an ideal choice to breed to a very high-end black male somewhere down the line. Annie's fleece is extremely fine and bright and she is carrying the coverage and typeyness I fully would expect in a Casanova daughter. Her conformation and elegance of proportion show in every single image of her. She is one of those animals that you simply cannot get to take an awkward picture, ever. With a pedigree anchored by grandsires Accoyo Caligula and Hemingway, what might we add? Well, how about a free breeding to our colored sire of champions, El Segundo de Royal Fawn and half-price breedings as long as you own Ado Annie? Photo Credits: All images (C) J. Clark!

We do not offer Kay Squared lightly, but in our efforts to thin out our ranks here, we have gotten to the point where we have to offer some of our keepers. We may have taken a certain amount of license in adding "Alianza" to her name, since no one will ever know for certain if her sire, the famous K-2, is Alianza, since the Canadian owners of his dam never verified that. I can only say that K-2 looks like a very famous male named Hemingway and his fleece to this day looks like that of Hemingway. Kay's dam is retired from breeding at this point, but she was an in utero import from Alianza and I have owned her since she was barely a year of age. In fact, we are not certain her sire will continue to work which will make Kay even more of a rarity! Kay has pleasing conformation, with excellent proportion, and should make an excellent foundation female. We seek out a compact frame and square build in our stud hembras, and Kay totally qualifies! Most importantly, Kay received the full measure of her sire's, K-2's, awe-inspiring high frequency bright fleece and shears over five pounds of blanket alone per year. Oh, and the options for breeding her this spring include our own multiple champion male, Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually as well as two proven full Alianza males here, Status Symbol SSMRT (Bueno line) and HDF King Arthur, a full Alianza Mister Antonio son. So, if you want to see what "the Dually fleece" can do or if you prefer to heritage breed her, as a buyer, your options are wide open with this lovely female. Her price reflects in no way her value and, if you put prices on all your females, I have no doubt you will be putting a very high price on her, just to keep her in your barn! Kay is one of our "hidden gem home-grown extreme females" of which we have more than a few. Kay sells with two breedings to any of our wholly owned or unrestricted males here.

We were very happy when we had a buyer express interest in co-owning Cassie, as we really did want her to be in our "private reserve" herd of foundation females. So, she is. We will be line-breeding Cassie, who is sired by the late and great Caligula's Casanova to our own Pacific Crest Da Vinci. We cannot think of a better way to lock some of the seriously fabulous stuff these two related lines afford than to cross them! Cassie's dam carried some extra stuff that we really liked, including CP Ultima (Alianza import) and Acero Marka's Rockamundo. Cassie is on my list to be bred to Da Vinci this very week. I cannot wait to see if we cannot get something truly fantastic from her.

Here is Hidden Hill Great Day. We have very high hopes for this young female. We showed her when she was a mere six months and two days of age at NAAS 2012, and she placed fifth. We heard far more comments about her being true to type and her future prospects than we expected to hear based on the placement. Great Day was not shorn down as a cria, and was the only alpaca in her class that was not. We love both her sire and dam. I bought her dam, Casanova's Dorianna, at the 2009 Prestige Auction and she presented me with a pure white full sister to Great Day two months after I brought her home. That full sister, Star of India, won the blue ribbon among juvi whites at the 2010 AFCNA Fleece Show. Based on my sorting skills, I am convinced that Star of India's 2012 fleece is still a Grade One. After I saw the fineness of Star of India, I contacted the owner of her sire, and bought half-interest in him. Atreyu is a fabulously fleeced son of the great Rensselaer, and is still holding a very amazingly fine fleece at age six, based on histograms. On the dam line, Great Day's grandsire is Victor's Hemiaccoyo Casanova, one of the preeminent fawn males in the nation, also known for siring amazing grays, including Aussie .38 Special and Aussie Guns N Roses. We just got our first round of fleece histograms, and Great Day has an AFD of 16.1! We just sold Great Day's maternal half sister, who is a true, true black, to a farm in the midwest. A savvy buyer would snap this young female up, get the chance to show her this fall and next spring, and bring her back to my farm to be bred to the buyer's choice among our unrestricted, wholly-owned males. Personally, I would take her to a male by the name of Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually. He just happens to be a five-time champion white male that also is the 2009 AAA Futurity White Male Color Champion as well as the 2009 MAPACA Jubilee White Male Color Champion. Oh, and he has four Judge's Choice Awards (MAPACA being one) as well. Dually has a 100 percent color when bred to color record, and he confers all the amazing fleece qualities that earned him the accolades in the show ring and in fleece shows to his offspring. Then, perhaps she ought to be bred to a really awesome solid GRAY....!! Or just maybe her breeding to one of our males might be used by the buyer with another female, and she could go directly to an awesome solid gray...food for thought! ;-)

Matelasse has been beautiful from day one. This Studmaster MSA Cannonero daughter is possessed of a gorgeous headstyle, and super-bright light brown fleece. Her dam is a full Alianza, product of two imported parents (suris, to be exact as well as in the interest of full disclosure here). Mattie is elegantly put together and has a nice bite, and she has the Cannonero coverage to the toes. This is one difficult young lady to capture in a photograph, but she is still as beautiful as her cria picture suggests! Mattie will sell with one breeding. We have quite a selection, and will be adding males in the next few months to our stud row. My personal choice for this female would be Brock's Black Forest Boulder, our "new" color champion MF son of the great MFI Brock who we co-own with Havenfield Farm in PA.

Here is Hidden Hill Peruvian Carinosa, the full sister to our Hidden Hill Peruvian Querida, who was the Reserve Champion White Female at the Big E 2009. Carinosa actually may eclipse her full sister when it comes time to take her to the show-ring. I cried when we sheared off her cria 'tips,' because they carried skin-to-tip crimp with enough staple to have come from a six-month old cria. This is one of our favorite pedigrees on the farm, since Carinosa's dam is our HHF Quarterback Princess, sired by our own Accoyo Powerball out of our dam of champions' (Cperuvian Chilam) only female cria born to us, Chilam's Precious Pearl. Pearl was sired by MBF El Dorado, which puts Bueno in this dam line as well. We love breeding QB aka Cutest to Caligula's Casanova -- and judging from these two female offspring, what is not to like? Carinosa has excellent conformation and the headstyle associated with the Casanova line. She will be a formidable competitor at the spring shows, no question about it.

Caspia is a full Peruvian beauty, sired by our Caligula's Casanova out of MFI Peppermint's Patty. Her lineage is 100 percent composed of Accoyo and Alianza lineage. Her granddam, Ppperuvian Peppermint, was a prized import Alianza foundation female at Magical Farms. Grandsire is MFI Peruvian Blockbuster, a Bravado (Accoyo) son. Her sire, Caligula's Casanova, is that perfect cross of Accoyo and Alianza genetics. Caspia is a well-grown out young lady with the characteristic Casanova headstyle, and coverage to the toes, also very much a hallmark of the Casanova line. She was born with two spots, one light brown and the other dark fawn, on both shoulders. Despite lots of assurances to the contrary, neither of Caspia's spots got to the requisite six inches in any direction necessary to show her as a multi, so she has never shown. We were at our age/color class limit on white females at that show, so we just took her home. Caspia is a proven female, and has worked out to be a wonderful dam with plenty of milk for her very first cria, the lovely Vivace, sired by MSA Peruvian Very Victor. Now that we own Glenstone's Calder, a gorgeous appaloosa sired by HDF Prince Philip, we cannot help but see what Caspia will do with him! We selected Calder, knowing that a dear friend of mine with a real eye for what makes great appaloosas, produced him. We also know he carries his amazing sire's enviable fleece qualities -- with spots! She sells bred to Glenstone's Calder.

Okay, Nora aka Nor'easter was our last cria of the 2012 season. And of course she was born smack in the middle of our first Nor'easter of the fall into winter season here, hence her name. Considering that she is sired by Accoyo Tsunami, a "weather name" is well-suited. We produced her dam here, and she is a banner-winning female sired by our late, great Caligula's Casanova out of one of my favorite Accoyo Powerball daughters. I have owned five generations of this dam line, and I still have her dam, granddam and great granddam here. Her great granddam is none other than CPeruvian Chilam, and she is the dam of many champions, including our own Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually! Nora is the complete package in terms of elite whites, really. Nora's fleece traits reflect the best of both sire and dam lines here. Her compact frame is a delight to view, and she has managed to carry the type and coverage we so love from her dam line. Nora sells with a free breeding. Believe me, our stud row includes many options that can take this already lovely female's great positives and improve on them. These pictures were taken on Easter Sunday.

Our Miss Milk was born while my brother and I were away touring a mini-mill in CT. Well, her dam, Peppermint's Patty, has never wanted me to be present at any of her births. Milk's full sister, Caspia, was born while I was on my way to an auction in the south, and Millenial Reign was born while I was slogging through a snowstorm in NJ on my way home from a NJ alpaca show. I don't mind if Patty does like to birth alone, as she is one of the best dams we have insofar as the "DIY" dams on our farm go! Anyway, we got home from CT around 6pm and Patty walked into her pen area, and was CLEARLY no longer pregnant. I steeled myself to go out and pick my way through the pasture when a cria appeared in the doorway. It was Milk and we located the placenta not too far away from where she was standing. Milk walked to her dam and nursed like she was an old hand. Phew, crisis averted!! So, let's just say Our Miss Milk's dam line is super-strong. Caspia is a proven dam with a beautiful, healthy female to her credit. Millenial Reign, too, is proven. Then, Our Miss Milk is sired by the male that will always be my personal favorite, our late and great Caligula's Casanova. We normally would prefer to hang onto all our Casanova daughters as we won't be making any more, sadly, but our numbers must come down. Moreover, we can think of nothing better than to know that our best alpacas find their way to great homes where they will be cherished and also take our customers' breeding programs to a new level. Unlike Caspia, Our Miss Milk has NO SPOTS. Will wonders never cease. We love Milk's type, conformation and overall balance and proportion. Part her fleece and I think you will be very pleased indeed. Our Miss Milk will sell with two breedings to any of our wholly-owned or unrestricted stud males. We have quite a number of excellent choices here, and we add to our stud row quite frequently! We would urge anyone to use our latest addition to our stud row, Brock's Black Forest Boulder, a proven male who is sired by the great MFI Brock.

Pola Mae's dam is my "girlfriend," Melinda May. I consider Melinda to be my first "serious" alpaca, and has she ever delivered the goods over the years. Sadly, I lost Melinda May to old age this year. Most people that still have Melinda's daughters will tell you that they, too, are serious females. Her sire, Pachacuti's Polar Express, was born on my farm but he now is living the stud life at another farm. We 'proved' his ability to settle by introducing him to Melinda, and in one single breeding, Pola Mae was conceived. Pola's headline reads "Accoyo Everywhere" but wherever it is not, her pedigree is coming entirely from Alianza herd genetics. So, if you love Accoyo and Alianza, Pola is the girl for you! Pola has been a healthy female from the outset. Quite honestly, as I have retired her dam, I considered keeping Pola Mae for my herd. But I am not getting any younger, and my herd numbers must come down. Pola Mae has excellent conformation, and great fleece traits abound. Like her dam, she is a little on the "topknot challenged" end of things. Apart from that, we like what we see in Pola Mae! Pola will sell with a breeding, and any wholly-owned or unrestricted stud males will be available. That includes our fabulous Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually. Just ask us if you have any questions. We continually add to our stud row in an effort to have the very best we can muster!

Here is a very lovely combination indeed. We bred one of our 7/8 Accoyo, 1/8 Alianza Plantel daughters, Peony, to our own five time champion, four time judges choice male, Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually -- and we got Present Perfect. Now, Perf has a semblance of a "pattern" to her fleece: her topline is a definite light fawn/beige and the rest of her is white. Like her sire, Perf has his signature headstyle, excellent coverage and she has a strong, square build with excellent circumference of bone. If we breed for a conformational type on my farm -- and we do -- Perf has it in spades! Her fleece is high frequency and uniform throughout her blanket fleece and beyond. Now, there are gray breeders that love the pattern that Perf has. Present Perfect is priced to sell with two breedings to our wholly-owned and unrestricted males.

Supermodel has been our "IT girl" from the moment she hit the ground here. Not only is she the very first of cria here sired by our male, Status Symbol SSMRT, a seven-time champion with a couple of judge's choice awards in the list, but she is the daughter of our banner-winning Hidden Hill's Peruvian Brillanta whose own dam, 118 Peruvian Brietta, was the 2004 PAOBA White Color Champion. The more that Supermodel matures, the more I know we got the best of her dam's typey qualities and her sire's amazing fleece qualities. Supermodel is compact as I love them and just look at that head! She could as easily have been sired by her grandsire, Caligula's Casanova! Truthfully, this young female really is the total package: pedigree-power, exceptional type, elegant proportion and a compact, square frame. Part her fleece and it is breathtaking in its exceptional fineness, uniformity, and density with high frequency crimp style and the brightness that a truly discerning breeder should be seeking. For the record, her first fleece was pleasing, but her second fleece is going to wow you far more. Our shearer is a man of few words, but he had nice things to say when he sheared Supermodel! I have a great deal of difficulty taking fleece images and the crimps per inch here make it even harder to see. I can assure folks that we have neck and topknot images and the extreme high frequency carries into the middle of her topknot. Now, I hardly ever can manage an "ears up" image of her. She is downright defiant when I show up with DSLR in hand. We do not offer her lightly, as Supermodel is emblematic of our program goals at Hidden Hill Farm Alpacas, but here she is! Truly, this is an "auction quality" female. Her first fleece statistics were excellent, but we think her second fleece will be as well.

Here is Vivace. Sired by MSA Peruvian Very Victor, Vivace's dam is one of our coveted, closely-held daughters of the late, great Caligula's Casanova, Hidden Hill Peruvian Caspia. We even have Caspia's dam here and several of her sisters from that dam line. It is a very strong maternal dam line indeed, known for copious quantities of milk for crias and a strong, healthy constitution! Vivace is beautifully proportioned and a solid female. I also do not think you will find too many truly solid peachy LF females out there -- this is a truly lovely uniform color. Vivace's dam has two large spots, one on each shoulder. We thought about how best to capitalize on those color spots, and our choice was MSA Peruvian Very Victor. The result was Vivace who is a beautiful uniform light fawn, and we are thrilled. Vivace carries the headstyle of her dam's line as well as that line's excellent coverage. I truly underestimated the qualities of the fleece this young lady is carrying until I saw it shear off her on May 20! It is uniform in color, micron and carries great brightness and a uniform, pleasing crimp style throughout. Vivace will sell with a free breeding at this price, and we strongly recommend going with Brock's Black Forest Boulder, a phenomenal son of the great MFI Brock!

Second That Emotion is Hidden Hill's Ado Annie's second cria, and she was my last cria sired by El Segundo de Royal Fawn. She is a superb dam, and proved that by producing Bravo's Marooned, who is a true maroon son of Grand River Bravo, an award-winning silver gray son of Grand River Amstel. Can she throw gray? Well, she is from the Royal Fawn line, and her dam is my top color producer, Hidden Hill's Ado Annie, who has produced Segundo lookalike son and daughter, a DSG phemon when bred to Rainier's Axel Cloud and now what may be the most amazing solid LRG daughter sired by Crescent Moon's Ante Up. We really don't know for sure. However, what we do know for certain is this: Segundo's line is as potent for serious color as is any Royal Fawn son's line and Ado Annie, her dam, is more than a mere light fawn female. Ado Annie's full brother is HHF Casanova's Boomer Sooner, who sires modern grays even though he is MF, and their dam's line figures importantly among several of the leopard appaloosa lines in the US. So, color? Oh yeah, I think you can count on color here. I have two Segundo daughters and have decided that I will retain one for my program and thus Second That Emotion is for sale. We will trot her down to see Quicksilver this very week, and she usually takes easily. Quicksilver is a full Peruvian classic MSG sired by the late, great My Peruvian Fire-N-Ice and yes, he has sired grays. Emotion is a ruggedly built female that is always in peak condition score, regardless of the quality of hay and forage. She birthed unassisted and had her boy up and nursing in no time flat. Bravo's Marooned also appears to be turning solid DRG based on the sprinkling of white and black fibers that seem to be showing in his fleece right now. He has that same healthy constitution of his dam and he is leader of the pack among my "Hogwart's Academy" group of 2016 young males. We will make this a "three in one" and Emotion will sell with Bravo's Marooned as well as the breeding to Quicksilver. If you want serious color in your herd, this is your ticket to ride in that direction for sure!

Segundora was my birthday surprise in 2010. Her fawn dam, Casanova's Dorianna, had been bred to our wonderful El Segundo de Royal Fawn in fall 2009. I thought we were breeding for a light fawn or fawn cria. Instead, Segundora is true black and was nursing from her dam when I found her. Segundora presents a fabulous genetic package for anyone focused on black and gray. Her dam is sired by none other than Victor's Hemiaccoyo Casanova, and her sire, El Segundo de Royal Fawn, is holding a grade two fleece at age fourteen and is well-known for producing black! Segundora's conformation is superb, and her second fleece is showing nice organization and a deeply imprinted crimp. She has lovely coverage to the toes and a very nice headstyle. Although she is not ready to breed at this time, Segundora will sell with two breedings to any of our unrestricted stud males. A very nice option would be SA Peruvian Nikolai, our Reserve Champion medium brown son of 4Peruvian Black Magic. Bred to black, Nikolai has produced it. My idea of a gutsy breeding would be to line-breed her to MSA Peruvian Very Victor, who is a gorgeous solid fawn. As long as he is standing stud here, that would be a lovely option for this lovely female. I will note also that her first fleece was sorted recently by others, who loved the fact that it was a uniform grade three throughout, and one sorter asked if she might be for sale. By the way, I am making room to keep her half-sister, who is what I can only call a "post-modern" rose gray, as she has all gray fibers everywhere. I have seen this in my suri breeding program several times, but this is my first time to see it in a huacaya!

If you want to feel like a genius come fall show-time, then take advantage of my abundance of show-string prospects and buy Hidden Hill Veracity while you can! Honestly, I do consider her my very best young show prospect in the barn at this moment, although we have some very wonderful juvis yet from which to select come fall. Now, honestly, I don't care much about the "fullness of the Peruvian" personally, but she is 15/16ths Peruvian, not 7/8ths. Veracity carries herself with elegance, and her proportions are pleasing to the eye. Bite is correct. But it is when you part her fleece that she parts company with all the rest. I honestly think the fleece shots presented here do not full do her brightness bordering on luster full credit. We have taken shots at the mid-side, the front shoulder and the rear hip area, and we see no degrading of the fleece. In fact, I feel quite certain that, had she permitted it, a below-stifle shot would still look much the same as her blanket fleece, if not quite the same staple. Our program is geared to expanding the usable area of fleece on our animals with each succeeding generation. It's hardly surprising that Veracity was beautiful from the outset, as her dam, Warford Creek's Allure by Nexxus, is a fleece champion and a daughter of the great Nexxus Nautilus. Her sire is MSA Peruvian Very Victor, whose offspring for us have been nothing short of spectacular. I have to say, this is the only animal on whom I have taken a fleece shot on the very day she was born, as it was just that spectacular. Veracity's 2013 fleece has been skirted so that it can be shown as soon as we can figure out what fleece shows are out there. We have added pictures of the fleece spread out on the sorting table here.

Here is our Gigi, our very first daughter of our award-winning son of Legacy Gold, Gold Standard. Gigi's dam is one of my finest colored producers, and Gigi is the first female we have ever had from Gwendolyn. Gwen's sons have been nothing short of spectacular, however, with illustrious show-ring careers. As is evident from the photos, Gigi's conformation is exceptionally strong, and she comes by this from both sire and dam. Her 2008 fiber stats were 20.5 AFD, 4.7 SD, 23.0 CV. Even though Gigi is well-grown out for a female that will not even be a year old until mid-October, we highly recommend that she not be bred prior to spring of 2009. Were she to stay here, we would be thinking about breeding her to SA Peruvian Nikolai, our banner-winning brown son of 4P. Black Magic. However, we have a wide range of breeding options for the lucky buyer.

Jeweled Incandescence was our Snowmass Legacy Gold daughter's, Snowmass Golden Jewel's, first cria, sired by none other than legendary full Peruvian rose gray Incan Magic. She is an elegantly proportioned little girl, with a perfect bite and fiber coverage to the toes -- and take a look at the fiber at the fetlocks because there is crimp for the eye to see, without parting fleece. Candi, as she is affectionately known, carries one of the deepest pedigrees on our farm, thanks to her dam, and lineage traces to Legacy via her grandsire, Legacy Gold and ultimately to Bueno, through Snowmass Casanova, her great-grandsire. Why would anyone want to part with such genetics? Now, we bred Candi to MSA Cannonero, whose lineage traces to Accoyo Camilio and Hemingway, who took the color champion honors at the 2003 AWE in Redmond, WA. Thus her cria, due this fall, will represent a nexus of two powerhouse alpaca breeding programs, Snowmass and Morning Sun. We look forward to all our crias here, but this is probably one of our most-awaited births this year. The breeding was confirmed via ultrasound on 1/16/05 and we followed up by "bouncing" the cria in June.

Satine has more color in her pedigree than most of my foundation girls -- for those afficionados of gray, here is a girl who could probably produce it in spades! Her sire is true black, her dam is light silver gray. I bought Satine for my program when I parted her fleece and was dazzled by the copper penny brilliance and wonderful character. Now, Satine had a wonderful juvenile and yearling show history but, since then, she has developed little patches of gray thoughout her blanket. If we were trying to show her, we would run the risk of hearing the dreaded comment about a "contaminated" fleece. Since we are breeders first, all this portends for us is great fun in trying to see what this proven girl can do in the future! Satine's first offspring was just weaned -- he is a medium fawn stud potential male, out of our wonderful El Segundo de Royal Fawn. His medium fawn fleece possesses his sire's characteristic high frequency, bright skin-to-tip crimp and the extreme staple length for which our Segundo is also noted. Segundo's The Sandman catches the eye of almost all of our farm visitors, in fact. So, here is a girl with excellent mothering skills, an easy birther who bred back in a single breeding. Most people never will even consider offering such a female -- I promised myself I would not do so, ever again. However, here I am offering to sell a gem, one more time. Satine has been bred back to El Segundo de Royal Fawn. Segundo's penchant for pulling the black in almost any dam's lineage could once again surface. Oh, and Segundo did throw dark rose gray twice in 2004...! And as the old adage goes, if I sell her, she is sure to have a female cria in June of 2005!

Gwendolyn is so beautiful that, if she gave us a girl, it would be a keeper. All her boys have been drop-dead gorgeous. Gwen is out of a maroon female and sired by a full Sollocota white male who has a proclivity for color. We are quite enamored of her sire, and remain committed to his offspring even as the years go by. Gwen totally outdid herself when she produced Comanche, a Cannonero son, in 2005. And let's not forget that her K2 son, Mauvelous, was termed by our shearer the best cria fleece he had shorn in his entire fall tour in 2004! Well, after Comanche hit the ground, it only made sense to breed back to Cannonero -- sure enough, we now have Comanche's "Irish twin," Cochise here. Same color, same incredible package. Well, not to tempt lightning to strike three times in the same place, we felt we had to move Gwen on -- to Gold Standard, our champion son of Snowmass Legacy Gold. Come on, Stan, give her the girl this year, please!!

Here is Tabitha, one of my principal foundation girls with a lot of fine years ahead of her. You won't find a female with better bone than Tabitha -- her conformation is rock-solid and she is a truly handsome female. Densely fleeced, superb maternal instinct and a pleasant disposition make her a complete package. If I had been actively showing the year I bought Tabitha as a weanling, she would have headed the list of my show kids. Coverage right to the toes and a gorgeous head -- Tabitha has it all. Tabitha had a lovely female out of Segundo on her first turn as a mom -- HHF Tammy is now living at Brookhollow Farm in NJ. In 2004, Tabitha had a beautiful white son out of our Caligula's Casanova -- little Casanova's Transcendent (we call him TR) has his sire's beautiful head and tiny high-frequency crimp fleece to boot! TR also has evidence of soft rolling skin fleece, as he has little tufts everywhere after having been carefully shorn down at two weeks of age. We've bred Tabitha to Gold Standard, our home-grown light brown award-winning Snowmass Legacy Gold son. We are looking forward to seeing what this pairing will do for our program in the fall of 2005!

Millie has the build that goes beyond mere conformation and which I most want to see in my alpacas here. She is square, compact, her neck comes out of her trunk in that organic and lovely way -- and she has the coverage and type to go with this balance and proportion. That she has a very fine fleece goes without saying. She does have a tiny fawn spot on her topline, but has done well in the shows regardless. Now, she has extending primaries that are very, very fine but I note them anyway. I selected her fleece for a sorting demonstration once and because it displayed so many elite qualities and I happened to be giving a workshop at a Level Four fleece show at the time, people attending my workshop asked me why I had not entered her fleece so it afforded me the opportunity to discuss extending primaries. Do I think we have the males that have the goods to eliminate this issue in her offspring? Absolutely I do, but this is livestock breeding, so only time will tell. She will sell with a breeding to the buyer's choice of any of our wholly owned males or even co-owned males that are unrestricted as to breedings. Millie has a daughter on our farm, so she is nicely proven. We just added a beautiful MF son of MFI Brock to our stud row, and that male, Boulder, might be the ticket considering that quarter-sized spot of fawn on her topline! Then again, there is always our home-bred and born five time champion, four-time judge's choice white male, Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually...!

This Accoyo Felix daughter is a proven producer -- her first daughter, our Mini-Pearl out of Accoyo Pachacuti, has what several fiber denizens have told me is a stage two soft rolling skin fleece. Mini had an AFD of 14.7 and fully 40% of fibers were 15 or lower on her cria fleece. Since we sheared nearly ten pounds off Mini-Pearl -- and her second clip AFD is still a mere 20.1 -- as a yearling, she suits our program to a tee! Andrea's 2003 son, Pachacuti's Polar Express, has performed well in the difficult yearling white classes this fall and has the finest fleece of any of our 2003 cria here. Well, Miss Andrea escaped breeding in late 2003 and we finally managed to get her to visit with our B-Line Accoyo male, Powerball this summer. She is due in early June 2005 with what should be a wonderful cria, male or female. I can only offer Miss Andrea because I am holding onto Mini-Pearl (who is bred to Accoyo Plantel). Otherwise, she makes the cut as a foundation female here at Hidden Hill Farm Alpacas, having proven she can produce males as lovely as her females. Miss Andrea is a fabulous, no-nonsense mom, she provides plenty of milk and her cria boast high IgGs as a result. Her fleece is still lovely and she is a handsome girl. Her fleece retains so much of its original character and soft handle. Considering the value of Accoyo Powerball offspring, this is a great opportunity to pick up excellent, proven genetics and see a cria in the summer of 2005.

Panache turned two years of age on July 3. She took a fifth place at MAPACA 2003 in light brown females in a crowded field of nearly twenty animals. She is a stylish girl, with a super-dense topknot that obscures her lovely eyes for all but two weeks following shearing day. She is very square with elegant proportion. Her fleece? Well, ultra-soft and crimpy, as would be expected from the quality of the fleeces of both her sire and dam. We've bred Panache to our fabulous male, K-2 -- he is standing stud at our farm now and is one of the most beautifully put-together males I have ever seen, with a gorgeous head. His fleece is the stuff of dreams. K-2's cria are outstanding and, after they hit the show-ring, everyone is going to want K-2 babies, so here's a chance to get one, with a mom whose color genetics are almost exclusively dark brown and black.

It is a shame that our alpaca color chart does not permit us to register a maroon animal for the color they represent. Any astute breeder for the elusive gray market can tell you, there is something awfully nice about maroon. Well, with that in mind, here is my fashion plate, Diana. And does she have a colorful pedigree, reaching back three generations. A true maroon with white face and "roaning" on her belly, Diana has produced two silver gray females in a row. This year, Diana had an El Toro cria we named Dusty. Dusty is covered with an abundance of extremely fine medium fawn fleece that is showing very nice crimp and brightness at the skin. She looks a lot like her dam facially, except she is dark eyed. Despite the fact that Diana had a uterine infection when Dusty was born, she managed to impart enough colostrum to Dusty to produce an above 3000 IgG, so this is one amazingly wonderful mom. For those genetically inclined, Diana has been called a "poorly expressed gray" and, given her ability to produce gray, we tend to agree.

True black and half Accoyo -- now, that should get some attention! Well, this little girl gets the lion's share of attention from all of our farm visitors. As much as I love to show, I am afraid I may not get the honor to show her since she is likely to be snapped up soon. Close your eyes and feel this fiber -- you will not believe you are feeling a black fleece. Middie has the same expression of crimp and brightness as a youngster that characterizes all of her sire's, El Segundo de Royal Fawn's, kids. Middie's full brother is our award-winning Valentino del Segundo -- and we expect her to steal the show at her very first! Round Midnight was sold in the AOBA National Conference Auction.

Here is El Segundo de Royal Fawn's second true black daughter from 2003 -- in fact, she is better than a half sister to Round Midnight, who sold at the AOBA National Conference Auction in 2004 because her dam is Round Midnight's granddam. Senita, as we call her, is a very correct little yearling female and she possesses one of the brightest and SOFTEST handling black fleeces we have ever encountered. Her personality is extremely sweet and she is easy to handle. Senita has been exposed to Gold Standard, our home-grown light brown son of Snowmass Legacy Gold. We will continue behavior testing her and, if she spits off, she will be ultrasounded on 1/17/05.

Zenyatta as a day old cria was lapping the pastures, ahead of the pack running a clear lead, hence her name. She is a very healthy, well-conformed, full Accoyo female that has been thoughtfully and carefully bred. I personally selected Mary's Accoyo Zigmund as sire for Zenyatta. His sire line is without question as good as it gets, as he is sired by PCA Accoyo El Nino. His dam was 6P Zenaida, a B line import whose first cria was the famous and late Accoyo Zen Do. She is also an awesome example of the fine work that Miss Accoyo Alessandra has done for me over the years here and, like her dam, has proven to be a wonderful mom imbued with all the "right stuff" to get a healthy cria on track! Zenyatta has produced two stud quality sons when bred to our own Dually. We expect great things from her when bred to Commander, a son of the incomparable Snowmass Star Quest and out of an Accoyo Godfather sired dam. He has illustrious ancestors including Vengador and a legendary Alianza dam by the name of Navidad. Zenyatta is spirring off to Commander even now. I usually do not have to behavior test her for very many times. She has always taken in a single breeding. Zenyatta's dam is eighteen years old with a late fall female cria at side even now! This is a longevity dam line.

Normally, we offer proven bred females but it is high time to trot out one of our best young females produced here in quite some time. Icing is precisely what we breed for here: blocky build, pleasing type, coverage everywhere you can get it, and a ripping fleece architecture! As a friend remarked upon seeing her when I said "I think it is time for me to trim her topknot," "Well, you shouldn't because that IS the Icing on that cupcake!" Icing's dam line could not be a stronger one than it is. Her maternal granddam, my 6P Accoyo Last Don daughter, was my matriarch full Accoyo female. Her dam is sired by my own home-bred and born multiple color champion white male Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually. Dually's dam, CP Chilam, should have been famous and would have been had she been owned by a big farm, but she lived most of her life in NH on my farm and another neighboring small program that selected for quality. She was white, made white, and they selected for color, so she moved to my farm. Simple as that. Accoyo America Typhoon, our Nautilus son, was so nice that Pacific Crest repeated the breeding several times, and he sired Icing. Typhoon imparted a brightness to the fleece that just makes things even nicer. Now, take a look at her histogram. One thing that I realize many people are not keyed in on -- and quite honestly, as someone that likes a stat that you can actually "see," I understand why only fiber processors care about it -- is mean curvature. Icing had a mean curvature on her very first fleece of 59. More and more, it is routine for us to see mean curvature here in the 60s to high 70s. Now, if she stays here, in all likelihood, she would be line-bred, as I don't know how I would take her further without doing so. I have two working next-generation sons of her grandsire here (one is an amazing fawn that I actually believe is a true roan) and one that is coming up on breeding age soon. I am asked quite often if I would sell Dually sons, but I have actually bought a few IN! Otherwise, I also have the unbelievably gorgeous 14 year old Pacific Crest Da Vinci, and I am line-breeding him to Caligula's Casanova and Dually offspring here. Da Vinci imparts exceptional fleece uniformity and fineness as well as (yes, you read this correctly) eleven pound average blanket only fleece weights. For those that are not adventurous enough to try line-breeding, I have a couple of amazing males, one sired by my own Status Symbol SSMRT, that is a 7X color champion in his own right as well as a freaky fine son of the great Rensselaer. You can look them up on my website -- Salt Creek's Takoda and FCF Atreyu, respectively. Quite honestly, if breeding her, I would seize on the opportunity to use a screamingly low SD male, which means I would go to the Dually sons for sure! Now, why would I even sell this female? Well, I own her dam and I own her sire. I can make another one if I wish.

We adore Harbinger, aka Harvey! His dam is our white Hemingway daughter, Snowmass Summer Breeze, who is one of our very best foundation females. His sire is the legendary Accoyo Plantel, one of our favorites on our herdsire row here. Harvey has exceptionally wonderful conformation and one of the brightest fleeces to the point that it verges on luster. Too, there is tons of his bright, fine fiber. Everyone knows that the Accoyo/Hemingway cross can produce amazing results. Here's your opportunity to cash in on this fabulous cross, with the added bonus of the sire line going to arguably the densest full Accoyo male in the nation, Accoyo Plantel! You will love Harvey's tuco head, that Plantel confers to his offspring routinely, and his extreme coverage to the toes. Even after being shorn, he still has curls all over his muzzle. He cuts a pleasing figure in our pastures. Harvey is a beautifully balanced alpaca. Now, he does have a couple of small light brown spots in his blanket fleece, but that also portends his ability to produce color when bred to it, to our mind. Anyway, the list price is to purchase Harvey without papers. For anyone wishing to use Harvey in their breeding program, we will charge a reasonable additional cost. With his genetics, I cannot imagine anyone not wishing to use this boy!

Horatio Hornblower is known about our farm as Fuzzique. He has a wonderfully sweet disposition, absolutely fabulous conformation. He carries a medium fawn spot that borders on his blanket. His fleece has a heavenly soft handle, and he has impressive staple length. Fuzzique is sired by our El Segundo de Royal Fawn, one of the best-known and best-loved sons of the veritable institution known as Accoyo Royal Fawn. Segundo has produced every color on the huacaya color chart to date, from pure white to true black. He has even thrown award-winning silver gray! At age ten, Segundo's fleece still exhibits the character, softness of handle and extreme brightness and bundling qualities that won him almost every major fleece award one can name. Now, Fuzzique's dam is a Snowmass Legacy's Lustroso daughter named HHF Lustroso's Luminosa. Minna, as we call her, is a lovely medium fawn female that we decided to retain for our breeding program. So, when you think about it, this boy is loaded with genetic potential, with Accoyo Royal Fawn as his grandsire and Accoyo Legacy as his great-grandsire! We are offering Fuzzique for the listed price, without papers. For someone wishing to use him in their breeding program we will furnish those to the buyer at a reasonable additional cost.

Regent's sire is the incomparable El Toro. His dam is our own Diana's Victoriana, a dark silver gray daughter of the venerable 4P. Royal Condor. We formerly owned Royal Condor, who was one of the top lottery import picks in 1996. Regent's maternal granddam is our Princess Diana, a full Chilean true maroon. So, we think this boy has a motherlode of color genetics to bring to bear in a breeding program seeking quality color. Regent had one of the highest IgGs on day two that our vet's office had ever witnessed -- they called us and said it was well over 4000. Regent is possessed of excellent conformation, care of both his sire and dam. When we sheared him down as a cria, my shearer gave me a thumbs up on this boy's tui fleece. Nice, very nice. Regent's fleece exhibits so many of the qualities for which his sire, El Toro, is famous -- soft handling, excellent crimp and bundling qualities and extreme brightness. The listed price is for purchase of this boy without papers. If the buyer opts to use him in a breeding program, papers will be available at a reasonable additional cost.

Vendome is a lovely boy, and has a gorgeous fleece that is exceptionally fine. He will make a wonderful fiber/companion male. As with his sire and dam, he is a nice, compact-framed male, and has a nice disposition. Vendome has a lovely pedigree. We are offering him as a fiber male.

Taupey is a medium fawn son of K-2 out of a Hemingway daughter, so he is 3/4 Alianza in origin. He has the characteristic bright, high frequency crimped, fleece that is consistent to and past the stifle. His conformation is superb, and his coverage is to the toes. K-2, for the uninitiated, has all the fleece characteristics of Hemingway and there are those of us who expect his name will be synonymous in the coming years with Hemingway's. If you have seen both Hemingway and K-2, you will be hard-pressed to think they are not of the same line. K-2 has had the primary/secondary follicle test and his ratio of secondary to primary fibers was 12 to 1, ranking him one of the best in the US on this score.

OK, this is not hype. Want THE BEST appaloosa male in the nation -- period -- with a merino style fleece and sired by the late, great Accoyo Pachacuti???? Paulo, simply put, is the most perfectly patterned appaloosa male one is ever likely to see! He has fawn, brown and medium silver gray spots in such a uniform pattern that you will wonder who painted him! Part his fleece and you will see a fleece that makes elite fleece breeders drool. At age two, his neck and blanket fiber weighed in at around ten pounds. And a really funny thing happened on our boys' 2006 shearing day -- we found out that Paulo is now a SOLID LIGHT SILVER GRAY base-coated appie!! If he were a suri, I would not let him leave this farm...! In fact, gray huacaya producers ought to be beating a path to buy Paulo, because he more likely to produce gray than most of the rest of the gray males out there. Paulo is sired by the incomparable Accoyo Pachacuti, one of my favorite Accoyo males that I am proud to have owned. Half-Accoyo Paulo took a blue ribbon on his very first trip off our farm, with ease. Conformation is superb, and he has the bite his dad is famous for -- the kind that usually requires no maintenance whatsoever. There is no doubt he is a one-in-a-million breeding, as his dam is a brown female with a white face. We have since discovered, however, that his granddam has produced other females who have gone on to produce very nice appaloosas, so this line is potently fancy, if you will! This boy could have a special place in either a fancy or even a gray breeding program, with all he has to offer.

We adore Polar Express, whose farm name is Arthur. He possesses a still-fine handle to his extremely crimpy fleece, and he is four years old. His genetics are unbeatable -- he is a son of the late, great Accoyo Pachacuti, a grandson of the equally great (and late) Accoyo Felix, and his maternal granddam is 3P. Narcissi, a fabulous full Alianza dam that is well-known on the west coast. Arthur has a wonderful disposition, top-drawer conformation, and has placed at every show to which we took him. We own his full sister, Mini-Pearl, and so we know this line's ability to hold fineness well into adulthood. His fleece exhibits extreme brightness, qualities related to bundling and a medium frequency crimp style, with high amplitude. We will also consider a co-ownership situation for this very wonderful male. His sire has passed away and I dearly loved that boy, so grab a son while you still can.

Presence personified, if ever you saw it! Shaken Not Stirred is sired by a well known son of Accoyo Mister President, My Peruvian Seagram. His dam line is one of my very, very best -- both his maternal granddam and his dam have taken banners at very tough show venues! We recently agreed to sell his granddam, in full knowledge of the quality that is leaving our barn when she does travel to her new home. We call him SNS, and yes, he's full Peruvian. We showed him in 2011 as a juvie and he did well at that time. He has a very impressive high amplitude fleece style, albeit not as high in frequency. In fact, he really carries his sire's dense, broad crimp style. Do take a good look at both his dam and his granddam, and you will see where that regal bearing is coming from on this guy, although his sire was no slouch in that department, either! We are overloaded in this dam line and are preferring to keep his half brother sired by our own K2, simply because K2 is no longer working. This is a steal of a deal, and only because we just cannot keep all our closely related males.

Nyquist's dam, Royal, has been a producer of champions for her owners. Royal is sired by none other than Snowmass Silver Signature. Adding on of the finest blacks working currently, Mile High Mr. Back 2 Black, and you have Nyquist! Nyquist is a well-balanced male with a strong frame, excellent coverage and an extraordinarily bright fleece in a high frequency crimp style. Wow. Looking for black with the capacity to breed for either gray or black? I think you know that Nyquist is the answer! Too, there is plenty of time for you to burn up the show-ring with this boy before he is ready to breed. Now, wouldn't that be a blast?

We call this guy Fawnzie. He has excellent conformation and a gray face. His sire is a multiple blue ribbon winning gray son of Grand River Amstel by the name of Grand River Bravo. His all-important dam, Hidden Hill Tesora, is sired by our late and great El Segundo de Royal Fawn but her dam was sired by Silas of Bolivia. We owned her dam, Huaca, and knew Huaca's true black dam, Lanark's Garbo, very, very well, as we boarded that herd while the breeders were building their barn. Dam lines are very important to us and this male comes with one heck of a dam line pedigree. There is depth of pedigree on sire and dam lines both here -- and we are not just talking about how many "well-known sires" make up this pedigree, as we pay attention to dams as well! Why is his pending registration name Turning Point? Well, we think he is turning rose gray and saddling him with a name like Fawnzarelli might prove odd if he works out as we suspect he might. Lovely and the male in our 2016 crew possessed of by far the sweetest disposition, that is Fawnzie. We are willing to entertain offers to sell him without papers but he is a lovely male with a very, very nice fleece!

Here is the full brother to our own HHF AD Dually Honored, who sired the 2019 Buckeye Show Judge's Choice Male. This is no fluke line, either. THIS IS THREE GENERATIONS OF CHAMPION SIRING MALES!! I bought the grandsire, Caligula's Casanova, in 2003 as an unproven yearling male coming off winning the blue ribbon in the yearling white class at MAPACA. Caligula's Casanova sired many champions for my farm and others. I opted to retain so many of Caligula's Casanova's daughters and sons for my program that I am sure some people think my lines are very closely related, but they exemplify my program. I produced Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually, who is a 5X CC/4X Judge's Choice winner with the most notable championship being his upset victory in 2009 at AAA Futurity, where he walked away with the white color champion honors. A male he beat in his class went on to sell for half interest only for $71,000 at auction! Dually's color champion offspring range from white to black, and we expect great things from his latest 2018 crop of kids when they hit the show-ring. Dually's full brother, Pundit, took four color championships and has also sired a wide range of color. Now, there is Dually Honored and DEFCON 5, and they are the next generation from our Dually line, without any question. We already sold our first Dually Honored daughter, and Dually Honored has offspring in NYS and NJ. Let's talk about dams, though, because there is a reason both DEFCON 5 and Dually Honored are really special. Their dam, who is deceased sadly, was Maple Brook Marla. She was sired by the great Wellington, and her dam was sired by Mister Antonio. Marla was one of my legendary teenaged females with a grade 1 fleece while producing crias. The lasting fineness that everyone seeks is definitely locked in both DEFCON 5 and Dually Honored thanks to help from both their dam and their sire. Since we have two full brothers, we are willing to part with DEFCON 5. We wouldn't if we didn't have his elder and very proven full brother. He is very attractively priced at $10,000.

We sold Accoyo Plantel at the Prestige Auction, where he was the high-selling lot. West Coast breeders, take note: Plantel is now standing stud at La Finca Alpacas and The Alpaca Group in Washington State! Plantel is a big, bold full Accoyo Plantel male. I will admit to having looked at this boy's picture many times when browsing through Magical Farms' stud male brochure and musing, oh if only...! Well, dreams CAN come true! In 2003, Plantel sheared over sixteen pounds of fiber, so he approaches Barreda's fleece weight ideal of twenty pounds. Moreover, Plantel passes his density on to his offspring! This is the male that, bred to a high-frequency crimp style female of superior quality can and does produce the elusive, elite fiber with the supreme density we all crave for our programs. We are keeping three Plantel daughters in our foundation herd, and I know that the Forstners have several generations of Plantel's offspring represented in their herd as well. Plantel, no doubt, will go on to produce a dynasty of amazing offspring for his new owners, and we wish them all the very best. We know, because he has done all that for us! Photo Credits: (c) J. Clark!

Full Accoyo, not only is Casino a son of the great 3P. Royal Fawn 6014, he is a grandson of the late, great P3 White Lightning. Both newly shorn and in full fleece, Casino will wow you. His neck and blanket fleece clip in 2007 was over 11 pounds. I am also really keen on the importance of dams, and Casino's mom is one of the nicest full Accoyo foundation females around. In June 2001, Casino's AFD was 19.2 -- fiberwise, he is what you would expect from a full Accoyo: dense, dense, dense with deep, consistent crimp in a bright white fleece and coverage to the toes. He is possessed with real substance and heavy bone as well. With his Royal Fawn genetics, we can expect Casino to throw color with aplomb! Casino has resumed his breeding career here, after a multiple fracture of the cannon bone two years ago. We are glad to have him back in full health!

Acquiring Bullet for my program just made sense, since most of my full Accoyo males, while well-known, are imports and depth of pedigree is what this boy is all about! In fact, I own his maternal granddam, so I can show you the source of some of his excellent qualities. Accoyo Bullet is co-owned with Mirage Alpacas, and he is just starting his breeding career. His very fine fleece has more of an Alianza quality, and frankly, we like that! Bullet lives here at Hidden Hill Farm Alpacas full time. Because we have a limited full Accoyo program, we have not had occasion to use him yet. That does not mean that we do not intend to use him by any means!

He looks like Dually, he has a uniformly fine, dense, well-organized fleece like Dually and he took his share of blue ribbons and a purple banner like Dually. But Bonhommie is amazing in his own right. His dam is our white color champion, Peruvian Brietta, and we breed Brietta to Caligula's Casanova each and every year, with such consistent and elite results. Bonhommie's elder full brother, Brigadier, is working at a customer's farm and his first cria have begun to arrive. Guess what? They have the same fleece we have seen on all of Brietta's Casanova kids. Next, Bonhommie's full sister Brillanta, herself a banner champion, has been retained for our foundation herd. Bonhommie took second places at both MAPACA and PAOBA in the 2010 spring shows as a juvenile, and we took him out as a yearling to the Big E last year, where he stood first in his class amid serious competition and won the White Male Color Champion honors. At NAAS he took the blue in a very competitive Yearling Bred and Owned Class with ease. Bonhommie finally got a little of Brietta's colorful heritage - he has a fawn spot just below his muzzle. We have little doubt that he can produce color if bred to it! The biggest compliment that means the most to us came from certified sorter extraordinaire, Pam Harwood, who looked at his fleece while at our farm and said, "this guy has the STEAK I am looking for -- his fleece is so uniformly fine!" Now, that means a whole lot more to me than the sizzle of his blue ribbons and banner! Bonhommie will start his breeding career up at Longwoods Alpaca Farm in Cumberland, ME, starting this next week. The introductory stud fee will be $750. Please contact Pam Harwood at Longwoods Alpaca Farm for details. We will also offer discounts for multiple breedings.

We were thrilled when Melinda May birthed out Cassius, as he is an exemplary F2 Accoyo/Alianza cross carrying two of the most venerable Accoyo lines in the US, Caligula and Royal Fawn. He grew up every bit as beautifully as he started out and possesses one of those high frequency/high amplitude crimp styles that I like to call "crimp squared." I am not terribly surprised that he has it, as both sire and dam possessed it. Cassius has always placed when shown at halter shows, and took second place (to the Color Champion) at the Big E in 2010. His correct conformation goes to a level of eye-pleasing proportion and balance, and his bite is correct. He is covered, as all of his sire's offspring are, to the toes with dense fleece. Cassius is standing stud at Camelot Alpaca Farm in Gilmanton, NH. Please feel free to contact either Camelot Alpaca Farm or Hidden Hill Farm to book a breeding!

Here is Hidden Hill Peruvian Pundit, the look-alike full brother to our Hidden Hill Peruvian Dually. For those not aware, Dually is our 5X champion and the 2009 Futurity and MAPACA white color champion male. Well, Pundit is well on his way, and is a 3X champion. He just took 2009 Color Champion White Male at the Big E. (Pictures will follow, when we receive the CD). Prior to that, his fleece has shown twice, resulting in Reserve Champion in whites at the Western NYS Fleece Show and the Color Championship among white huacayas at the FABA Show. We have not sent in our fleece samples for 2009 yet, but will post Pundit's histogram once we receive our results. His fleece characteristics are so similar to all the qualities that everyone admires about Dually. Pundit's exceptional coverage and headstyle is the same as Dually's, and he has Dually's sweet disposition as well. I plan on getting a picture of the two of them together in the next few days, so people can see what peas in a pod they are! We have never failed to be thrilled with their dam's, Chilam's, production, and we are very thankful that we were able to purchase her from Kilblaan Farm all those many years ago. As for Pundit's sire, well, almost anyone can tell you that Caligula's Casanova is our signature male here at Hidden Hill Farm Alpacas. This is a pedigree of incredible strength. Pundit has sold to our friends, the Perrys of Glacier Rock Alpacas in Vermont. We could not be more thrilled! Now, we would post the championship pictures but the photographer seems to have it in for us, because we have been waiting well over a month for their receipt.

Intrepid has a really amazing fleece -- and an equally auspicious pedigree! We are proud to co-own him with Havenfield Farm. Intrepid was produced by Rainier Alpacas. As for the pedigree, we love his dam, as we own one of her daughters here, Rainier's Georgia Peach. Intrepid's sire is the well-known Accoyo America Endeavor. Endeavor's dam was 6P Accoyo Stefani, the in utero import daughter of the great 6P Accoyo Sicuani (dam also of Nautilus). His dam is also a granddaughter of PCA Accoyo El Nino on her maternal line. I am a great fan of double El Nino pedigrees. However, her dam's sire is where things get interesting: Count Blackula is a TB son of the great Sinopsis Nocturna! Intrepid is correct, balanced, possessed of a lovely headstyle and good coverage. Part his fleece, and expect to be awestruck. This is a beyond-bright fawn fleece, uniform from shoulder to hip on both sides, and keep on parting to the belly and you will find it is all the same gorgeous stuff! Intrepid will be at MAPACA and PAOBA this year. We did a real 'hit and run' photo shoot, and Intrepid does not like to pose for the camera!

Allure is the complete package. Sure, she only took a third place at 2011 NAAS, but the judge was opposed to her dark spot (got news for you, judge -- she has another one you did not find!). But scoop those spots out and Allure was the Reserve Champion Light at the Western NYS Fleece Show in 2011. Allure is possessed of a very elite, high frequency fleece with excellent staple length. She has a gorgeous head and is built as beautifully as anyone could imagine. In 2011, we bred her to MSA Peruvian Very Victor and her 2012 cria, Veracity, was so stunning, I actually felt compelled to take a 'first day fleece shot.' Veracity possesses one of those much-coveted silky-style fleeces, and Veracity sold as a weanling. At her first show, she was sixth in her halter class at 2013 Green Mountain Alpaca Show, but her first fleece was entered in the Green Mountain Fleece Show. She came away with the Light Color Champion honors at that fleece show, and we were very happy for her new owners. This fall, we hauled Allure down to be bred to a fawn male at Mary's Alpaca. His name is Mister Jefferson, and his awards, both fleece and halter, are so numerous, I would risk carpal tunnel just to list them all here. Suffice it to say his fleece won the coveted "Spirit of the Industry Award" at the 2010 AFCNA Fleece Show. Hint: Mister Jefferson is also siring silky fleeced offspring, so we are very anxious to see what this pairing can produce!