Animal Details

Beautiful 3/2012

Scientific Data

1/1/2011	Micron Count: February: 19.3 / 4.8 / 24.8 / 3.4 - 5 mos. old. Note: 16m, 17m, and 18m are the highest bars on the graph. Mar. 2012: 7 full crimps per inch
1/1/2012	Micron Count: March: 19.8 / 4.6 / 23.5 / 3.1 - YES! She's becoming more uniformly fine like her dam and is holding her micron like her sire on a normal diet with alfalfa. 15m to 21m are the highest bars on the graph which means her distribution trends toward the lower microns.
1/1/2011	Shearing Weight: 2.0 lb. skirted blanket. Shorn 5/30/11.

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KCAF RRoyal Silver Truffles

Alpaca, Huacaya, Open (Female) | Medium Silver Grey

AOA #31612388 | DOB: 9/8/2010 (14 yrs)

Sire: Snowmass RRoyal Fox

2024 EPDs top 2% for Fineness!!!

Snowmass RRoyal Fox

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Medium Silver Grey

AOA# 30820500DOB: 7/21/200717 yrs

Fox is going on 17 and acts like he's 10. If you want better fineness EPDs and uniform, fine, pigmented gray fleeces with lots of crimps per inch and essentially no guard hair, he's the one! This line produces lingering 13 to 19 micron pigmented gray fleeces...consistently. Fox's first five fleeces were combined into one lot to make yarn at Heart and Soul and they commented on the uniformity of the lot. Thanks to his sire, Royal Bronze, Fox is a master at overall uniformity, removing guard hair and fining down fleeces and adding more crimps per inch, good staple length, along with deep and vivid colors. He's a SILVER GRAY, SNOWMASS BRED, AOBA NATIONAL COMPOSITE CHAMPION and well proven to produce healthy, correct, typey progeny! He is highly ranked for other traits too. He virtually removes all guard hair, including belly and bib. We attribute this amazing ability to his sire, Snowmass Royal Bronze, who is recognized by Julie Skinner as having recognized as having strong vicuna traits. Density? He has royal fine daughters (see Dream Catcher) with 4+ pound tui blankets and SDs in the 3s. Character? Gray daughter, Mellona, is 14.5 afd, 3.5 cv; 59 curve (not a typo) @ 21 mos. and then a 63 curve the next year! Uniformity? Hardly anything to skirt out of his progeny's fleeces. Offspring have very consistent, uniform and high yielding fleeces...Little to no skirting is needed for these big blanket fleeces. Primary and secondary fibers are very similar, even across colors in the gray fleeces, most of which are pigmented silver grays. In every offspring you will see higher frequency & amplitude crimp. ZERO to minimal guard hair...no matter the dam or color of the cria. You'll likely never see any guard hair on the belly of a Fox offspring. Soundness and health, correct phenotype, conformation and movement. Even dispositions and very intelligent...and even a few silly personalities. Certified Sorted graded Fox's 3 y.o. champion for "WORSTED applications". No W, LF or MF crias and no blue eyes. -Gray dtr, Kristiana (sold at AOBA auction): EPDs 2% fineness and placed: RC, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th; bought her back in 2024. -Gray son (Irish Meadows) - 1st Futurity. -Black dtr. (Irish Meadows) produced a black Champion son by Jacob Black. -Gray dtr. Rayna (Sold to Dusk Till Dawn Alpacas at AOBA auction for $16k)- 1st @ Alpacapalooza 2012; RC/2nd GMAF. -Gray dtr. Silver Truffles - Purchased by Alpaca Country Estates. Other grandkids are winning ribbons too.

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AOA# 30820500 Medium Silver Grey

Dam: Trufflina - RIP_deleted

31612388<--ari-->Dark Fawn<--color-->Our herd's matriarch. Reference listing - Desceased Jan. 2012. Based on her track record we think she was one of the best herd matriachs in the country. Her offspring won many awards, were called "irreplaceable" AND she put a pound per day on her newborns. Average size, never sick, bred and birthed easily; her cria's 24 hr. IgG's were typically 3000+ and weighed 75-85+ pounds at 6 months. She consistently passed on her correct phenotype, balanced proportions, fleece quality and coverage, and a perfect bite (never trimmed). She is the mirror image of her sire in dark fawn. 99 cria: DB M, 16 m, blue ribbon (8, Krieger). 01 cria, Snowy Truffles (sire: 4P Locota), had a 48 hr IgG 3600, placed 4th in a large, juv. W female class at Alpacapalooza 02 (Krieger); was the highest selling W huacaya maiden (out of 4) at the Star Events 01 auction (no Accoyo in her and out of dark colored parents). 02: Constantino (sire: 4P Locota)- 04 Alpacapalooza fawn color champion. IgG 3400 and a 19 mn/17 cv fleece with 10 crimps per inch in his first two fleeces and is siring numerous award winners in all colors! 03: TB F, Chocolatey Claire by Donovan (Patagonia's Shakelton line). 04: W F, Lacey Truffles was considered "irreplaceable" by her owner. Sadly, Snowy (enterotoxemia/pneumonia) and Lacey (dbl pit bull attack) both died as yearlings at their new owner's farms. 05: LF F, Golden Truffles (sire: Megabuck Mink). 06: Carmelina (modern gray by Nova's Nuance); gained one pound per day for her first nine days...wow...and went on to place 3rd in a class of 11 in and then Res. Champ. (42 entries / Alpacapalooza). 07: DB M by Megabuck named Star Packer, tripled 18 lb birth weight by 2 mos. 08: TB F, Royal Truffles by P. Tacitus. She's an Alianza/Accoyo/Sollocota/black Chilean cross and is beautiful. 09: LB F, Dixie, sired by our Silver Dust. 10: MSG F, Silver Truffles by our Snowmass RRoyal Fox (AOBA Grey Champion), purchased by Nancy Chapell, Patagonia Country Estates. 11: <--description-->

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"At this time, we are not interested in selling Truffles. She has been a wonderful producing dam for us, and no matter who we breed her to, she has an outstanding offspring." - 11/1/16 from Nancy. Sold to Alpaca Country Estates. Silvie was bred to .38 Special son, U.S. Steel! Her U.S. Steel cria, Estates Silver Titan, placed second at CABA 2014! Silvie is so incredibly smart. At the auction, with people constantly coming into the pen, she began to move into position automatically for people to see her fleece. Gray breeders have commmented that she is a beautiful female with a beautiful fleece. Her fleece exhibits excellent character tail to ears...fineness, crimpy primaries, color, density, brightness, long staple, a soft handle and an absence visible guard hair. She always runs to greet me, is very smart and sweet and she likes to be with people. Yocum-McColl told me that her fleece is a rare, true (pigmented) gray and very nice, long, fine and silky. Her paternal sister, Reyna (MSG @ 15.6 m), placed first at Alpacapalooza '12 and is also in the AOBA auction. They are Fox's two best gray daughters so far. Her sire, Snowmass RRoyal Fox (2010 AOBA Gray Composite Champion), is from Snowmass' Royal Bronze and Casanova bloodlines. He's a full Peruvian with '98 imported true black and maroon granddams, so he's unrelated to all other gray bloodlines! Silvie's dam produced multiple champion and blue ribbon winners. Her third fleece earned a blue ribbon over Futurity champion P. Microsoft in 2000 under judge Julie Skinner. She was the best daughter of P. Andrajo (Alianza sire of Mr. Roosevelt who sired Crescent Moon's Donato) and consistently put 3/4 to 1 pound / day on her crias with high IgGs (2000-3000+). Silvie was her dam's 12th cria. Her 3/4 maternal sister is Carmelina, a Res. Champ. Her maternal brother is Constantino, our Champion who won blue and purples for 5 years and produced our Casimiro, a TB Res. Champ. - 18 m / 3.0 sd / 16.7 cv. Her pedigree is consistent for maintaining phenotype, quality fleece and fineness beyond five years. Paternal Brother, Graphite - 1st Futurity 2012! Paternal Sister, Reyna - 1st Alpacapalooza 2012!

Updated 7/19/2018