DECEASED: It is with great sadness that we had to say goodbye to Austin at the start of 2014. He was a very sweet gentleman and will be greatly missed by all of us here at Top Knot'ch. We are thankful for the remaining three offspring that he leaves behind and have great hopes for them. For those of you who are Augusto fans, meet his son, Austin. Augusto (named Kansas in Peru), is no longer available for outside breedings. He was the world's highest selling Huacaya male in 2000 at $226,000 for his predictable genetic improvement of his offspring. Don Julio Berreda wrote in 2005, "I am positive that whoever buys Kansas will be satisfied." Austin is an ideal cross between Augusto and Matador (True Black). He is a handsome large frame male, weighing in around 210 pounds. He yields abundant fleece as you can see from his pictures, that is also dense, with a super bold crimp, which exhibits brightness. Some of the things we especially like about Austin is that he has a very consistent fleece throughout his body without guard hair, bundles, and nice crimp even at 10 years of age. Austin was not shown by his farm of origin due to a broken toe. He possesses the characteristic Accoyo head with a very prominant top knot. His lovely personality rounds off this package! Austin sired six offspring. He has thrown a white to a light fawn, two whites to whites, and a light fawn to a medium brown. Austin is throwing very attractive crias. Augusta Rose, a female cria and white in color, is featured to the right, and has an exquisit fleece with bright beautiful bundles.

Venetia is a medium-fine fleeced animal, who is mild tempered and very easy to work with. Venetia, being sired by Snowmass Alpine Gold, is the grand-daughter of notables 5Peruvian Chaccu 9063 (now deceased and formerly of Crescent Moon Ranch) and Snowmass Peruvian Fawn Angel and a great grandaughter of Don Julio G159 who was exported to Australia. She has exhibited good birthing and mothering tendencies. Venetia's first cria was on May 30 2006, to Simba of A.L.Pacas whom we named Simba's Princess Kiara. In 2007 her solid MB cria (to Austin) expired in the pasture due to unidentified causes. She had a very nice male cria born November 3 2008, to Augusto's Austin, which we named Austin's Wimbledon (see pictured), which was subsequently sold as a pet although his fleece was very nice. Venetia aborted a Khantender cria in 2009, when in that season to some unidentified cause we had a few abortions in the herd over a short period of time. Lastly, she gave birth to a beatiful and healthy female cria darker than herself (Basanti) by to The Khantender Optimo on July 20, 2010. She hasn't been bred since 2010 because we can't handle many more animals, but we are considering breeding her to LA Sparticus because we feel that it will be a wonderful match. Lease Venetia for $900.00 which includes a breeding to any of our herdsire selections.