NEWS: SKIN BIOPSY RESULTS COMPLETE Dr. Evans "Albus highest S/P ratio ever tested to date" He has an S/P Ratio of 21.25! We are pleased to announce our partnership with our friends Joanna and Rob Stephens of RobAsia Alpacas. We share ownership is a fantastic young male with amazing potential - RobAsia's Albus. We have been very selective in purchasing breeding males for our herd. For us to purchase a white male meant he had to meet and exceed any of all of our expectations for powerful genetics, excellent fleece characteristics proven with hard data, and great conformational traits. We studied him on paper, looked and fleece samples, and then traveled to Wisconsin to see him in the flesh. We made our decision with no hesitation. Genetics: Albus is sired by Snowmass Quechua's Quest. Quest is an amazing combination of two powerhouse lines in the Snowmass herd, Snowmass Star Quest (Augusto line) and Snowmass Quechua (multiple herdsire of the year). Albus' dam brings just as much to the table with her Snowmass Invincble and Accoyo Caligula in her portfolio. A secret ingredient in Albus is the appearance of arguably, the most influential female in the Snowmass herd, Snowmass Maree Love on both the top and bottom of Albus' pedigree. Fleece: Beautiful! We studied his fleece samples, saw his show fleece from his last shearing, and studied his fleece on body. The hand on Albus' fleece is among the best we have touched. The character and crimp in the fleece is consistent from top of his head to his tail. Check out fiber stats. Awesome histogram on third shearing! Conformation: Albus is upright, straight, and demonstrates strong bone structure. His photos tell the story. Albus now has cria on the ground with our partner farm in Wisconsin - they are reportedly the best cria born at RobAsia. We have confirmed pregnancies here in Texas with the first cria due in early November. He is standing at Blue Gate from November 2015 until May 2016. Limited outside breedings to approved females. Females confirmed bred to Albus available for sale.

Blue Gate Bellini is a full Peruvian female. She is the daughter of our Snowmass Red Hot Cognac and OAR's Summer Solstice (Hemingway line). She has great conformation and incredibly fine fleece. Bellini is the result of a careful breeding decision to combine dam and sire genetics for a super outcome. She arrived a bit early and needed some extra help for 48 hours, but since then she has not looked back and is affectionately known around the farm as "the tank." Her sire is our elite Peruvian stud Snowmass Red Hot Cognac. Cognac brings a rare line of of fine fleece Peruvian genetics in color. His sire is 5Peruvian Red Hot, an in-utero import who stands as part of the North American Alpaca Stud. His rare color genetics are infused into the elite herd at Snowmass Alpacas and at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm. Cognac's dam is the daughter of 6Peruvian Silent Night, arguably one of the best black imports from Peru - giving Cognac some outstanding color genetics. Bellini's dam is OAR's Summer Solstice, a product of the Omineca breeding program in Canada. Summer has held on to her very fine fleece into her breeding years. Her sire is Peruvian Canadar, a Hemingway son out of an amazingly fine Sollocota dam, who recently became a featured member of the StudMaster program at Northwest Alpacas. Canadar progeny are a rare commodity and we are proud to have Summer in our herd. Summer's dam is Jolimont 2Peruvian Tranquila. The combination of Cognac's Sollocota genetics with Summer's Alianza/Sollocota genetics produced a fine young female with rich color and very fine fleece. We love how this girl has developed. Her maiden breeding was to Snowmass Andean Night, a stunning producer of quality dark fleeced alpacas from the Snowmass Andean Bronze line. Bellini delivered a gorgeous, fabulously fleeced, dark fawn female from this breeding. We will likely keep Andean Trio in our foundation herd, so we would consider selling this outstanding production female. Bellini bred to our multi-champion RobAsia's Albus to see how Albus does with color. This result is an amazing line up of genetic goodness. Her cria Blue Gate Tempest is simply fantastic. Bellini is bred back to Albus for a Spring '18 cria.