Suri Alpacas

Hidden Hill Accoyo Chambala, who we know affectionately here as Lady Lala, is one gorgeous, high luster and lasting fineness full Accoyo suri female! We have shown her and she took first place in juvenile lights. She is carrying Jackpot from her dam line and her sire is none other than our own NGG Accoyo Tiago Primo, whose production record numbers over 80 and is 100% suri. Tiago's sire was the great import Accoyo Santiago, another 100% suri production record male. Chambala is full sister to Sarabande. Believe me, we do not breed full Accoyo suris just to make full Accoyos here. This female has everything you could be seeking and then some. Chambala and her full sister, Sarabande -- who was the 2013 Light CC at the MAPACA Fleece Show -- will be bred to our full Peruvian harlequin light rose gray male, True Aim of Hidden Hill, this fall. Their dam's full brother was one of the loudest appaloosas in full Accoyo land, so we think we have a superb opportunity to pull some interesting color from both of these females.

Locked and loaded and the 2013 Light Suri Fleece Champion! Her fleece also received the blue ribbon at the 2013 PAOBA Fleece Show, where there were insufficient entries for a championship. Sarabande has been a healthy, beautiful suri cria from the outset, and the fourth daughter in a row for us from our fabulous Accoyo Sharli, a Jackpot daughter. Sarabande is sired by our own Accoyo Tiago Primo, himself sired by the great Accoyo Santiago. Research performed on Tiago prior to purchasing him showed that Tiago had never sired anything but suri offspring, including breedings to known heterozygous females. That his sire, Santiago, also has a 100 percent suri offspring record per ARI is also a strong indicator of, but by no means a guarantee, as to homozygosity. It certainly is a strong testament to the line, however. Sarabande is elegantly proportioned, physically correct with a wonderful, typey head. When I wrote this up yesterday, I said my sorter eye showed her fleece to be very fine. Well, how does 19.1 micron AFD sound? She is already nicely relocked, too, after less than a month since shearing. Sarabande will sell with a breeding to our own Accoyo Gold Rush, a full Accoyo Something's Up son that is beige/light fawn. Sarabande will sell with a breeding to be done this fall to True Aim of Hidden Hill. Her dam's full brother was the loudest full Accoyo appaloosa in alpaca land and we really think we can pull the appaloosa from this line!

True Aim is a full Peruvian solid light rose gray male that I kept to use in place of his sire, Winchester Steel. His dam has been my cornerstone suri female, and she has produced champion offspring in colors from light fawn to true black (and solid gray). Her name is 4Peruvian Victoriana, and at this point, she is retired after an emergency C-section in 2009 and we refer to her as the 'dowager empress,' but I keep her daughters and even buy them in when they are available. That is just how much I believe in True's dam line! In 2008, we tested True Aim's fiber at the skin and the tip both, and it was 19 AFD in each case. I wish I had taken him to larger shows where he would have had a color championship opportunity, but I never did. His record, at both halter and fleece shows, is True Blue! When I showed his fleece, he got full point scores for density, as his annualized fleece weight was a whopping 8.5 pounds. True Aim is a solidly built (thanks to sire and dam both) male, with excellent relock and one of the most lustrous gray fleeces. Wade Geese actually referred to him when he judged him as 'the future of gray suris.' I never thought I would consider selling True Aim, but I am going to offer him for sale, as we are trimming our colored suri program back a bit, and he so desperately needs to be where he can be appreciated and used in a truly elite, rare-colored breeding program. There are no white spots on any of his extremities, and even though some judges have actually asked me what he is doing in a gray halter class from time to time, every single one of his locks contains at least one black fiber. We have not bred most of our colored suris in recent years, thus we have not started this boy. Believe me, he is raring to go. This boy is an absolute steal at this price, as his sire has produced nothing but grays and graying up appies for me, even when bred to whites. If you are not too far away, and would be interested in half-interest, we could arrange a half-interest price!

I took one look at Independence at the 2008 AAA Futurity and fell in love. I knew I was going to own him someday. In the show-ring, he has never placed below second place anywhere. He took Reserve Color Champion at the Florida show in early 2008 as a juvi. At Futurity, he took second place to a half-brother and at AOBA he took the blue in his class. We showed him at the 2008 Green Mountain Show and, again, among all solid colored yearling males, he took the blue ribbon. At NAAS this past weekend, he won his class again, edging out a wonderful son of his own grandsire, the great MacGuyver. Indy is the picture of his amazing sire, Captain Morgan. He is extreme on all levels: from his complete fiber head, to the super-dense coverage to his toes, luster, lock and fineness, elegant proportion and bone. We cannot wait to see what he can do for our breeding program and we think he is going to be ready to work this spring. We are clear on one thing and that is that the Captain Morgan/MacGuyver line keeps on doing some of the best work in the entire pantheon of suris! We are so grateful to Randy and Barbara Coleman of Wings and a Prayer Alpacas for producing this wonderful boy as well as for letting us have this extraordinary opportunity!

Only two farms in Peru breed and raise only suris. The animals from both farms are rare and highly prized. No doubt most alpaca breeders can name one of the farms, as it is Accoyo. However, perhaps rarer still in the US, are full Alianza-Antacalla genetics. With that in mind, permit me to introduce you to Mister Pierre, a well-proven stud, and haling directly from the Alianza Antacalla ranch in Peru (he was born in the US to a dam imported from that farm). Pierre has been an excellent herdsire for my farm as well as other farms. Testament to his quality, several of his sons now stand stud throughout New England. All of his cria have tightly penciled fleece right down to the skin. Luster abounds, and virtually all offspring are show quality. A gentle breeder who truly loves his job and is a still-virile elder statesman at this point, Pierre faithfully throws his type. I have never had to breed a female to Pierre twice -- when he nods as if to say the deed is done (or next, depending on how you read stud messages), so it is! Two years in a row, Pierre was bred to a true black female, and he produced his first-ever colored offspring! The first was a fawn male with hints of gray to his fleece, and the second is a rich brown.