Congratulations to our friend Annie Hunt of Willow Wind Farm, for acquiring a share of Avatar. Please contact Annie about Avatar breedings. We are thrilled with Avatar's newest creations - including Delphi's Avella - The 2017 National grey female halter Champion at just over 6 months of age. And congratulations to Avella's new owners, Debbie and Dale Hoerl; Alpacas of Moose Creek Ranch! Many more Avatar crias will be arriving in 2018. Avatar has beautiful crimpy, dense, and fine fleece, but what separates him from other outstanding herd sires, is his phenomenal handle - due to both exceptional uniformity, and very bright, low scale fiber. Cameron Holt, AOBA Senior Judge Trainer and world wide fiber expert, gave the following scores to Avatar's fleece: Fineness: 15 out of 15 ; Handle: 5 out of 5 ; Uniformity of micron: 7 out of 8 ; Crimp: 8.5 out of 10 ; Density: 3 out of 5 ; Brightness: 8 out of 10 ; Lack of medullation: 8 out of 10. His daughter Delphi's Lailah won Color Champion Grey Female Fleece at the 2012 Nationals. His son Delphi's Rama won a Blue Ribbon at the 2012 National Fleece Show, (and then brown Color Champion at the Tenessee Waltz Fleece Show). These two Avatar kids insured Delphi's win of the 2012 Classic Cup for fleece, at the 2012 Nationals. Another standout offspring is Kanaka - an 8X Champion with 1% EPD's in both SD and >30; and 2% EPD's in fineness. While we don't participate in the program, we agree Avatar's son Kanaka's EPD stats do reflect his sire's strong suits. Avatar's many other crias now include Six AOBA National Halter or Fleece Champions, several Futurity Champions, and many many many Multi-Champion and Blue Ribbon show winners, in addition to the winners of many Special Awards, such as the Best Brightness award at the National Fleece Show - the first time this award has been awarded to a grey. Please enjoy viewing some of his lovely crias and their fleeces, shown below. Avatar's Histograms: 7-1-02 = AFD 18.7 / SD 3.4 / CV 18.0 / 0.7% >30 6-11-03 = AFD 20.9 / SD 3.4 / CV 16.3 / 1.0% >30 5-1-04 = AFD 21.8 / SD 4.0 / CV 18.4 / 2.2% >30 6-1-07 = AFD 24.5/ SD 4.4 / CV 18.0/ 8.9% >30 5-27-08 = AFD 22.4/ SD 4.2 / CV 18.8/ 3.4% >30 5-13-09 = AFD 21.9/ SD 3.9 / CV 17.8 / 2.5% > 30 6-9-10 = AFD 21.5 / SD 3.7 / CV17.2 / 1.7% >305

Sent from above, Heaven Lee is a perfectly conformed beautiful True Black alpaca. From her gorgeous typey head, to the tips of her heavily boned and fleeced toes this Patagonia Compadre daughter carries a rich black fleece that most alpacas only wish for. Her fleece exhibits high amplitude and medium frequency with a distinct curl to each crimp. Heaven Lee's fleece has an extremely soft hand, good density, great lock definition and is very bright. Heaven Lee has been one of our outstanding black production females giving us 4 impressive cria, 3 females and a male. Her first is our stunning Avatar daughter, then she gave us a blue ribbon-winner Giovanni son, then a daughter and this year another stunning daughter sired by our premier herdsire, Accoyo America Phoenix. We kept Heaven Lee open this fall to put her into a spring birth rotation. I’m not anxious to sell Heaven Lee as we like her offspring but we need to make room for our upcoming maidens and can’t increase our herd size any further. Our loss will be your gain!

This young man, Chicago, is an impressive Med. Fawn Grandson of El Nino on his Dams side, and Nova on his Sire’s side. Chicago has presence galore, and an awesome head. His fleece is equally impressive maintaining a 19.1 AFD at three years of age. When you see Chicago in the male pasture, visitors always want to know who that macho is. What we also like about Chicago is his great bone density, coverage, and his easy-going personality. Chicago is one of our up and coming new herdsires that we are anxious to see his first cria. We think we will be very pleased!