Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we are thrilled to have Snowmass Touche' in our herdsire line-up. We have been looking for a long time for a males who can geneticallly and phenotypically complement our herd. We were looking for a male that we could breed to our Elite White females and to our colored production females. In essence, we were looking for a male with Elite Fleece Characteristics--especially with his combination of Density, Fineness, Brightness, and excellent staple formation. He is the PERFECT MALE to fit our needs! He is INCREDIBLY DENSE exquisitely FINE and has one of the most advanced fleeces with remarkable consistency from head to toe. And he is a compact and typey male who has correct conformation and bite. Snowmass Touche is truly one of the finest, densest, elite white fleece studs out of the Snowmass Breeding program. He was designed to go over both Elite white and Color production Dams. He has a very unique genetic line up which includes the superior line of Snowmass Maree Love --the Dam to Snowmass QUECHUA and Snowmass INVINCIBLE, Touche's Sire. The unique and white Elite element to Touche is his Dam, Snowmass Olay--she is the only Sollocota - Allianza line with her fineness in the Snowmass herd. Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we have had some of our best cria out of this male and it is no surprise when you consider his EPD's One of the characteristics that he transmits the most effectively is STRUCTURE. In addition to evaluating and validating his conformation and fleece in the show ring, we have done histograms on his fleeces every year. We also did a skin biopsy on him this spring and at 7 years of age, not only has his fleece been amazing in the past, but the current traits he is exhibiting are still remarkable. AND his EPD's demonstrate that he will consistently and reliably pass those traits on to his offspring. Tierra Prometida’s “Snowmass Touche” was biopsied as a 7 year old white huacaya male with ARI#30408753. His 15X scan demonstrates large fiber clusters very uniform in size and placement. This trait was likely passed from his dam. His density is 76.75 follicles SQ MM of skin and his average S/P ratio based on 25 fiber clusters is 12.0 to 1.

Tallow is a stunning female that is one of our treasures. She is has a Hemi- Accoyo heritage that is remarkable. She is typy with a stunning head and conformation. Her fleece is fine, dense and full of many elite characteristics. Her first cria out of Caligula's Accoyo Poseidon...Motivator is simply amazing! He has won 29 Championships to date. Check out his Facebook page for up to date information and details of his cria. What can I say about Tallow? She has been the most consistent producing female that we have had. She has had 4 cria out of Caligula's Accoyo Poseidon and they have been like clones of each other! TP Poseidon's Motivator, TP Poseidon's Terminator, TP Poseidon's Gladiator, and TP Poseidon's Navigator are the four magnificent boys she has had out of Caligula's Accoyo Poseidon. She currently has a male at her side, sired by Snow Diamond Perfect Storm, a Snowmass Defiance son with 4 EPD's in the top 1%. Norm Evan's Comments on her Skin Biopsy done in 2013: "Tierra Prometida’s “Chase Tavern Tallow” was biopsied as a 7.5 year old white huacaya female with ARI#1226454. Her 15 X scan shows a broad view of her fiber cluster architecture. She shows uniform placement of large fiber clusters that are uniform in size and shape. Her present true density is 79.21 follicles SQ MM of skin. She shows level 2 of 4 glands structure on her S/P and 250X scans. The glandular infrastructure is likely genetic and gland density is likely nutritional. The average density that I evaluated in 2010-2012 in mature huacaya females that I assume breeders considered their best was about 49 follicles SQ MM and the average S/P was about 11.3 to 1. Tallow’s S/P ratio from 6 fiber clusters on your picture is 13.16 to 1 but 25 clusters show an average S/P of 13.5. Note from all scans that she shows less that 10% of her secondary fibers are medullated which should relate to excellent handle even at her age. One hundred secondary fibers averaged 17.0 microns while 50 primary fibers averaged 25.1 microns. This equates to a micron variation of 8.1 microns.Tallow shows the most impressive fiber stats of any huacaya female of her age that I have measured. She will likely make any male look good."

He has the phenotype that we look for in our alpacas, and the judges seem to agree. He carries a high amplitude and high frequency crimp that runs from skin to tip. It is consistent from shoulder to hip, up the neck, and down into the belly and legs. As you separate his fleece, the staples separate into smaller staples supporting the incredible density of his very fine fleece. That uniformity is demonstrated in his very soft handle. Dr. Norm Evans said that " Ezekial's Challenger of Marquam Hill has the highest Skin Biopsy Results I have found in 2012 and his results are in the top 1% of all the alpacas I have tested" We have sold out of breedings for Challenger in 2012, 2103,2015...etc... (Sold out in five days) however we are taking reservations for no more than 4 outside breeding in 2023. Challenger is still rockin the fleece!