PATAGONIA'S ERNESTO: Patagonia’s Ernesto is a magnificent light brown compact herdsire that improves every dam to her fullest potential. Before I purchased Ernesto, I bred numerous females to this dynamic male just to see what he could do. I discovered that I could take an average dam, breed her to Ernesto, and voila, he would produce a stunning offspring. This feat was proven when we had hundreds of the females assessed with their juvenile crias. Time and time again, the cria scored better than the dam so I knew I had something special going on with this male and one way to obtain improvement in the production of our breeding program. In many ways, Patagonia’s Ernesto has surpassed his one of a kind sire, Patagonia’s Lennox, and what Lennox has been able to achieve in his life-time. Ernesto’s dam, R&RR Irishea, is a light fawn from Ruth and Rodney Elvestad’s Canadian breeding program whose goal was to have lasting fine fleece, yet have the fleece to be the ultimate in density as well. Ruth operates Olds College in Canada working with fiber. Irishea is out of one of my very favorite males, CAVA Guivar Zorro, a true black import. He has many good breeding years left and would love to have the opportunity to prove it! Ernesto’s Show Record shows for itself: JUDGE'S CHOICE, 7x CHAMPION & 5x GET OF SIRE RIBBONS Ernesto's first crias hit the show ring in 2012 and continue to perform! PATAGONIA'S EL CANTO DE CHILE - LF Male 8/5/11 (5x Champion & Numerous Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S BACCUS - TB Male 7/4/13 (3x Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S MANTECOL - MB Male 7/26/13 (3x Champion & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S ENCHANTED LIGHT - LF Female 6/22/11 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) AUTUMNSUN'S MAJOR GENERAL - DRG Male 6/6/12 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S PERFECTION - DF Female 8/20/2013 (Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons) ESTATES ERNESTO'S KEEP SAKE - DB Female 9/1/2013 (Color Champ & Blue Ribbon) LIBERTYS ALLEGIANCE - TB Female 8/12/2014 (2x Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons PATAGONIA'S FRANCO - MB Male 6/12/12 (Reserve Champ & Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S DELFINA - MB Female 10/13/12 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S REGALONA - MB Female 6/12/11 (Multi-Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S ADELA - LF Female 6/30/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S ARIELE - MF Female 7/10/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S SHONSHONE - MF Female 7/16/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S ARCTICA - WH Female 9/11/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA ESTATES AZTEC - LB Male 6/27/2015 (Blue Ribbon Winner)

Congratulations and thank you to Kat Bouzos for her purchase of Patagonia's Acapella! PATAGONIA'S ACAPELLA Acapella's sire, Patagonia's El Trauco, is a full Chilean Shackleton son known for his fine fleece. Trauco is an 8x color champion (including AOBA and All-American Futurity) who produces beautiful typey heads on his crias. His cria are winners at halter and fleece and exhibit elegant phenotype as well. Acapella's maternal grandsire is 4Peruvian Cronus 6008, a Full Accoyo Peruvian Import. Her maternal granddam is Melosa (who produced Kaspa and El Vasco)! Offspring: On 6/24/15, Acapella gave us a wonderful light brown male sired by Patagonia's Ernesto. PATAGONIA ESTATES AZTEC was on our 2016 show string and received multiple ribbons, including taking home a Blue Ribbon for his 1st Place showing at the California Classic 2016. On 7/24/16, Acapella presented us with a gorgeous white male sired by Snowmass Pure Passion. ESTATES PURELY APPRAISING won Light Male Color Champion at the Western Alpaca Challenge 2017. He also won a blue ribbon and Reserve Color Champion at California Classic 2017. On 8/19/17, Acapella gave birth to a handsome light brown male sired by Patagonia's Ernesto. On 7/30/19, Acapella gave us a beautiful dark fawn female sired by Snowmass Pure Passion. On 9/22/20, Acapella delivered a nice-looking light brown male also sired by Snowmass Pure Passion.