Dam: GEMINI STAR UBER'S CHOCOLATE FROST
Chocolate Frost has eyelashes to die for. A beautiful medium brown (on the dark side) with black ears, nose and eyes, a Huacaya female with great conformation and crimpy soft fleece. Chocolate has given birth to 6 crias, 3 males, Kheiron and Draco out of Tantalus, Prometheus out of Silver Bullet and 4 females, Nashira out of Santiago, Talitha out of Silver Bullet and Venus out of Tantalus, and Bona Dea Damia out of Cienega Creek Tobias. Her birthing has been easy without any help. She is a very good mom with lots of milk. She is very easy to handle and pleasant to be around.<--description-->
Service Sire: Snowmass Enlightenment
30359420<--ari-->Medium Rose Grey<--color-->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 <--description-->
Gemini Star Talitha is a wonderful breeding female. Since her first show in 2008, she has developed a much more perfect conformation and fuller, very crimpy fleece with great bundling. She is mostly dark silver grey with white face and feet, and medium silver grey down the front of her neck. She was a big cria, weighing in at 24.5 lbs. She is out of Uber’s Chocolate Frost and Silver Bullet. At the 2008 SWRAS, she was classified as Medium Silver Grey. Her cria for 2009 was a darling dark fawn male, Gemini Star Pisces, with a white blaze on his top knot and around his mouth. In 2010, she had a beautiful dark fawn female, our Gemini Star Talitha’s Magaera.
On May 20, 2015 Talitha had a beautiful rose grey girl out of silver grey herdsire and Avatar son, Avatar's Avalance!
On September 13, 2016, Talitha had a gorgeous medium brown girl, Terra Lux, out of Snowmass Enlightenment! Terra has exceptional fleece! Talitha is a great mom with lots of milk.