Eva’s sire is Alta Luna’s Man from Uncle, a full Peruvian, and dam is Alta Luna’s Granita whose background is mostly Chilean with some true black and grey in her heritage. Eva has the most incredible amount of milk for her crias, and she has been known to foster other crias; in fact, she has even nursed two crias at the same time for more than six months. She is an asset to any farm for those unforeseen times you need additional milk. Her offspring, including our own Emily, are good natured and easy to handle. She is an easy keeper, breeds easily, and is a joy to have on the farm. Eva's 2012 cria, Estates Liesel XX, took a blue ribbon at TxOLAN in 2014 as a yearling in a class of five, and then went on to be the Color Champion at the show in the Brown Female Championship with lots of competition entries. Liesel's fleece is pictured on the right. On June 13, 2014 Eva had a lovely girl cria, Ygraine, from Snowmass Royal Knight. Snowmass Royal Knight’s 7 yr fiber stats are: 16.5 M; SD 3.5; CV 21.1 & %> 30m=0.4!!! Nope, there are no typos! Snowmass Royal Knight is the real deal. He exemplifies the fiber of the future. Sired by Snowmass Royal Bronze & held tightly in the esteemed breeding program of Snowmass Alpacas, Royal Knight’s son’s are now servicing colored Snowmass Matrix offspring at Snowmass. That’s referral enough for most of us! If you are breeding for extreme fineness, density, rock-solid macho conformation in color, Eva's cria Ygraine is your opportunity to obtain the Snowmass Royal Knight lineage. Eva is now confirmed bred to our incredible harlequin appy stud, Billbong, who has a very high rate of throwing appy cria! We are very excited about this breeding!

The legendary grey herdsire, Snowmass Enlightenment, is bringing his power packed genetics to the West Coast! "Enlightenment is the most significant grey stud we've ever produced." -- Snowmass Alpacas "Best male in the show. This stunning male combines perfect conformation and magnificent fleece. He is the 'Total Package'." -- Kentucky Classic Judge "If you could put all the best performing, most unique blend of genetics into one stud for the most advanced color breeding program...that is exactly what Snowmass did and the result is nothing short of magnificent!" -- Prior Owner "If we could have a Royal grey line of alpacas, Enlightenment is what it would take to get us there!" -- Julie Skinner His selling at the 2009 Futurity Auction by Snowmass was "...a true commitment to keep him in the breeding pool of Elite grey males in the USA as [we] slowly move out of breeding for grey." -- Snowmass Alpacas Snowmass Enlightenment, a multi-champion, is the product of generations of superior genetic development. Follow up his line to his multi-champion sire and 2X Futurity Herdsire of the Year, Snowmass XXXtreme, who was sired by multi-champion Snowmass Royal Rose, who was in turn sired by the incomparable Peruvian Hemingway. And lest we forget his dam, Snowmass Silver Star, sired by Snowmass Casanova, who was sired by Peruvian Bueno, brings rich grey and color genetics herself. In 2009, Enlightenment won the AOBA Reserve Color Championship at 54 months just after taking a Championship at the Kentucky Classic Show. He was the highest selling alpaca at the 2009 Futurity Auction, taking in over double the price of the next closest male. Enlightenment has produced a multitude of champion offspring in all colors, starting with his 2nd cria, Snowmass Enlightened - a rose grey 12X Champion who has gone on to be a great herdsire in his own right. A female cria, KBA Enlightened, went on to win 10 Championships and produce the top selling grey at the 2015 Parade of Champions Auction (for $47,500). He's produced champion offspring in every year since he started breeding (see photos to right). Some recent shows/sales for his offspring: -- 2013 MAPACA Jubilee - 2 of the 6 Judge's Choice entries were Enlightenment offspring -- 2014 AOA National Auction - an Enlightenment female was 4th highest seller and won a championship at the show (to go along with her 4 other banners) -- 2015 Parade of Champions Auction - an Enlightenment grandson was the highest selling full-interest alpaca This herdsire is one of the few grey males to come on the scene and make everyone's head turn. He's that good. Contact us for your opportunity to make Enlightenment's incredible genetics work to improve your color/grey program. Enlightenment is co-owned by Epic Alpacas, Morning Beckons, and Providence Alpacas. His cria are now hitting the ground at Epic Alpacas and the fleeces are spectacular: fine, bright, dense and tons of crimp! We love this guy!