French Champlain joined the Whispering Willows Alpacas herd in 2010, and has been a great addition to our herdsire row. This is a beautiful male. His fleece is dense, crimpy, and baby soft with long staple length for a middle-aged male! Look at his fiber data at eight years of age! Incredible!! His fleece just shines in the sun and is the most gorgeous fawn color. He has excellent conformation and coverage down to his toes! He has proven himself a great breeder. Champlain has a fantastic pedigree with rare bloodlines, including the 1994 Alianza import Peruvian Andrajo, and the 1998 Accoyo import 6Peruvian Accoyo the Last Don. His brother is the well known Mr. Roosevelt of Crescent Moon Ranch. Champlain is a very easy going male and is not at all aggressive. He makes a perfect great uncle for young weanling males, as he is gentle with all the other animals. We have decided to sell Champlain and his good friend Anders Celcius together as a pair of pet/companion alpacas. These two boys have been friends since Anders was weaned from his mother; they have essentially been together since (except during a short winter stretch of inclement weather!). We want these boys to stay together, and since they are no longer part of our breeding program due to several up and coming young males in our herd, we are making them available as companion or fiber animals to a family looking for 4H animals or pets. Neither boy has been gelded at this point but could be for 4H purposes. Both have good personalities--Champlain is very good on the halter; Anders still needs some practice! Please contact us to inquire about this pair of boys.

Caterina is a very nice, well rounded, excellent female. She has beautiful, crimpy, and dense bay black/dark brown fleece, along with sturdy and square conformation and a typey head. Caterina is 3/8 Accoyo, with both Pperuvian Felix and Pperuvian Caligula in her lineage. Felix and Caligula, from Estancia Accoyo of Peru, were two of the elite group of males imported in 1994 that included Victor, Timoteo, Vengador, Leon, Terror, Camilio, and Pluro. Caterina's sire is the well known Aussie Colorado Dillinger, a champion fawn male with many award-winning offspring. The second female cria born on our farm, we named Caterina after Caterina Scarpellini, a meteorologist, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Italy during the 19th century. Scarpellini organized the Meteorological Ozonometric station in Rome. She was born in 1808 and discovered a comet in 1854. In 1872, Italy struck a gold medal honoring her work in statistics. Caterina earned two show ribbons in fall 2008: she earned a third place ribbon at the inaugural IAA Heartland Classic Show, and a fifth place ribbon in a large class at the 2008 OABA Alpacafest in Columbus, OH. Caterina has produced only one cria for us-- a stunning dark fawn female named Olive, in May 2013. Olive is listed for sale as a breeding female on our sales list. Unfortunately, aside from her one cria, Caterina has consistently failed to carry her other pregnancies to term over a period of several years We have made the difficult decision to offer Caterina for sale as a companion or pet female. She is good on the halter--having performed very well in the show ring as a youngster. With work she should be a wonderful 4H animal, or can simply be part of a pet or fiber herd. Alpacas are herd animals and cannot be kept alone, therefore we offer all of our pet animals for sale in sets of two or more--at BOGO pricing. Caterina is being offered for sale with her friend Morning Glory for a total of $150. These girls are not older animals--they are seven and nine years of age, respectively--but both are being retired as breeders. These girls will make a wonderful pair of pets for the family wishing to acquire its first alpacas, or would be ideal as companions in a larger female herd.

HERD DISPERSAL UPDATE: Rocketman, known affectionally as Rocket, is the best fawn herdsire ever to stand stud on our herdsire row. He has it all! His fleece is incredibly dense, crimpy and soft. His conformation is flawless, with stunning coverage. He has presence! He is also enormous and is easily the biggest alpaca on our farm. This guy really has the WOW factor. He has legendary bloodlines hailing from High Plains in Canada. With the dark in his background, Rocket can throw dark cria as well. We recommend breeding him to grey. He is also a multi champion in the show ring! He is charming with people and loves to show himself off. He will certainly provide visual interest for whoever visits your farm. Rocket loves to watch the girls, and is happiest with them in sight! This is an ELITE alpaca, that would be a signature stud on ANY farm’s herdsire row. This is a prime opportunity to improve your breeding program. High Plains Rocketman is now standing stud at Fishback Creek Farm in Indiana! We have deemed Rocketman “the stampede.” This is due not only to his curious, high-energy pacing as he watches the girls, but also to his ability to overwhelm you with his brilliant phenotype. Rocketman has it all: large size, gorgeous conformation, excellent coverage and beautiful fleece. He has the signature HFL Super Sam head. His fleece is incredibly dense and soft with robust staple length and brightness! This guy is the complete package – he definitely has that “WOW” factor that stops people in their tracks! Rocketman’s genetics are the definition of elite. Rocketman is a Super Sam son; HFL Super Sam is one of the most decorated males in the Canadian herd. For the breeders who know Super Sam…no explanation is needed. For those who haven’t heard of Super Sam…he is THE 16x Get-of-Sire award winning sire…THE Futurity winning herdsire male….THE herdsire to Futurity and Color and Supreme Champions in a whole array of colors….THE stud who changed the way the Canadians defined a true impact stud sire…THE stud who is CLOSED to outside breedings. Rocketman is the genetics package you need to have in your herd! Our thanks to Rick and Evelyn Derksen of High Plains Alpacas in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for allowing us to acquire this multiple champion male.