Futurity & GWAS Champion

AutumnSun's Major General

Alpaca, Huacaya, Herdsire (Male) | Medium Rose Grey, Dark Rose Grey

Dam: Patagonia's La Traviesa

Patagonia's La Traviesa

HuacayaOpen (Female)Medium Fawn

AOA# 31691598DOB: 7/17/200915 yrs

Not intending to buy, we had to buy this girl as a yearling when we saw her fleece! With her very gentle personality, great health and conformation, we are glad we added her to our herd. Esa has been a great mom and easy keeper. Her first cria was a beautiful boy with striking white markings on his face and a macho look from birth. We could not resist taking a newborn picture with our phone just to post for all to see. This boy grew up to be our herdsire Major General who brought home banners including from The Futurity!! When bred to Golden Thunder she produced a cute little fawn female that was complimented more than once on her very shiny fleece. We named her Carnaval (because she was all spunk as a cria, like a party), but maybe we should have named her Caramel for her buttery soft fleece! From our white herdsire Orionn, Esa produced a very nice beige male that sold as as a juvenile. She has lots of production left to give!

More Details

 AOA# 31691598 Medium Fawn

Description

We think this boy is the darkest 'silky' type we have seen! His fiber is slick and shiny that it looks and almost feels wet! Even judge Tim Lavan commented that his fiber looked almost like it was wet! He has LOTS of fiber on him, and with a really long staple so that it droops somewhat when he is at his peak length. But don't be fooled by this and think that he is not dense... he has a lot of fiber packed on him! He has white fibers in his blanket but not consistently enough to classify him as a grey in the shows. This was his initial 'hiccup' in the show ring, when they placed him in the brown classes so that he had to endure the disapproval of the judges. We attempted to show him in Bred and Owned but did not find the consistent competition at that time that we desired for him. But, we luckily become more observant of Major's several, easily discernible light spots in his blanket that classifies him as an appaloosa pattern. Shown in the right class and Major ROCKS! His fiber was finally evaluated purely on its exceptional qualities rather than on how it did not fit in the class. From the beginning in the show ring, he was hard to categorized but well appreciated. At his first show, while he was criticized for his white fibers in brown class, he also caught the judge's eye as "so shiny he looked wet". At the 2014 Futurity while showing in the combined multi class, he was brought to the Reserve Champion position, behind the Snowmass Color Champion and before the other exemplary alpacas from farms such as Crescent Moon and Marquam Hill. With the caliber of competition of this show we were proudly aware of Major's placing at the head of the pack clearly recognizing his herdsire material! We absolutely love Major for his easy personality, great looks and fantastic fiber. Being a small farm with very limited breedings each year, Major has had to elbow his way into the breeding program and hasn't had the exposure that he should have. He has darkened the color of the offspring over its dam in every case. When bred to fawns he has made a MF to DB crias. Bred to grey dams he produced grey crias 60% of the time and true black in the remaining 40%. Their fiber have all been fine with long staple and good crimp. His last two crias by fawn dams have been grouped into our show / jr. herdsire category. Since we have decided to keep his son, Gentry, in our herdsire row, Major is available at a very 'nice price' to help him move to another breeding program. He has genetics that could be used in any grey or spotted program. As we have sold Imitation, our last appaloosa dam, we no long have need for a male that could straddle the line of grey and spotted colorations and he really deserves more consideration.

Awards

3rd - 2013 TxOLAN, dark brown juvenile - Tim Lavan, Favorable comments about his conformation, density and fineness and "so shiny he looks wet" but dinged for having other colors/white fibers.

2nd 2014 Futurity - Multi yearling. Amanda Vandenbosch. We were definitely impressed at the caliber of animals brought to this competition. Therefore, we were extremely proud to stand among the champions, beating out some very nice animals.

1st - 2014 TxOLAN Yearling mixed muliti - Cathy Merkley With 8-9 spots he is an Appy & in our appy breeding program & our grey program. Comments: "very stylish and showy male", boxy frame / nice proportion. Good fineness, brightness, density and organization. Very soft hand.

1st - Dark Bred & Owned, ABR Fall Festival, Julio Sumar

1st - 2014 ABR Fall Festival - 2-yr-old mixed multi - Kristin Buhrman

1st - 2015 TxOLAN - 2-yr-old mixed multi - Amanda VandenBosch

1st - 2015 Great Western Alpaca Show, 2-yr old multi - Cathy Merkley

[bo] Best Bred & Owned, ABR Fall Festival, Julio Sumar -- "very nice boy"

Reserve Champion -- 2014 Futurity -- Amanda VandenBosch

Reserve Champion - 2015 Great Western Alpaca Show, Multi - Cathy Merkley

Purchase Terms

Updated 12/25/2024

Offspring

Different genetics than average

[Pending Sale] AutumnSun's Gentry

Jr. Herdsire (Male)3 yrsLight Brown

Sold

Champion's girl, producing black & grey

[SALE! 2n1 with girl cria] AutumnSun's Carmine

Open (Female)8 yrsDark Brown 

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True black daughter of greys

AutumnSun's Brina

Open (Female)3 yrsTrue Black 

Not for Sale

Major General's Daughter

AutumnSun's Carmine

Open (Female)8 yrsMedium Brown 

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AutumnSun's Champagne Bubbles

Open (Female)2 yrsWhite, Medium Fawn 

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AutumnSun's Frasier

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AutumnSun's Graphite

Male2 yrsMedium Silver Grey

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AutumnSun's Silverthorne

Male3 yrsMedium Silver Grey

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