Cognac is an Incan alpaca type - very compact, strong boned, and correct in his conformation. He is loaded with ultra-fine colored fleece genetics. Photographs don't do justice to his gorgeous color - he is truly the color of a fine glass of Cognac. With only 10 months of growth between shearings, his fleece weighed in at over 7 pounds. And what fleece it is - you won't find many dark fawn males with 18 micron fleeces. Cognac's sire, 5Peruvian Red Hot, is a Vicuna quality brown male out of the elite North American Alpaca Stud also with an 18 micron fleece. Red Hot's progeny have been consistently winning their classes at the All American Futurity. Peruvian Red Hot has been an integral part of the Snowmass colored program. Julie Skinner notes that Red Hot was born out of Black Peruvian Dam and was such an incredible cria, unrelated to any of the colored alpacas in their program, that they never even dared take him off the farm. Snowmass was able to use him over all the offspring from most other males their herd, to deepen the fineness and consistency of their colored breeding program, placing Red Hot squarely among the top colored males Snowmass has ever used. Cognac is among the very few Red Hot sons available for outside breedings in the country. Of equal importance in Cognac's lineage are his two grand dams - 5Peruvian Ajoyani and 6Pervuvian Silent Night. These are two of the most significant black dams imported from Peru that served as the foundation of the colored herd at Snowmass Alpacas. It is particularly rare to find both of these lines represented in a single male. In 2014 we had to bid a final farewell to Cognac. His genetics are captured deep in our herd and we miss him greatly. We keep him listed here as a lasting tribute.

A sweet and inquisitive maiden. She was 19 pounds at birth and has continued to grow at a healthy pace. She has very fine fleece - her first fleece tested at 19 microns. Her second fleece came in at 18 microns. She has nice crimp structure and extreme brightness in her fleece. Luna is the daughter of award-winning stud Bognor Regis, a son of Amanda VandenBosch's legendary grey stud FDA Paladin. Luna's conformation is very much like her sire's. Although she is white, she is loaded with color genetics from her grey sire and black dam. NEWS: Luna delivered an amazing medium rose grey cria on 4/28/08. Blue Gate Mixtli is an outstanding male cria sired by our elite Peruvian stud, Snowmass Red Hot Cognac. Even at this early age he is showing perfectly straight legs and conformation. His rose grey fleece very crimpy and fine.