Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we are thrilled to have Snowmass Touche' in our herdsire line-up. We have been looking for a long time for a males who can geneticallly and phenotypically complement our herd. We were looking for a male that we could breed to our Elite White females and to our colored production females. In essence, we were looking for a male with Elite Fleece Characteristics--especially with his combination of Density, Fineness, Brightness, and excellent staple formation. He is the PERFECT MALE to fit our needs! He is INCREDIBLY DENSE exquisitely FINE and has one of the most advanced fleeces with remarkable consistency from head to toe. And he is a compact and typey male who has correct conformation and bite. Snowmass Touche is truly one of the finest, densest, elite white fleece studs out of the Snowmass Breeding program. He was designed to go over both Elite white and Color production Dams. He has a very unique genetic line up which includes the superior line of Snowmass Maree Love --the Dam to Snowmass QUECHUA and Snowmass INVINCIBLE, Touche's Sire. The unique and white Elite element to Touche is his Dam, Snowmass Olay--she is the only Sollocota - Allianza line with her fineness in the Snowmass herd. Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we have had some of our best cria out of this male and it is no surprise when you consider his EPD's One of the characteristics that he transmits the most effectively is STRUCTURE. In addition to evaluating and validating his conformation and fleece in the show ring, we have done histograms on his fleeces every year. We also did a skin biopsy on him this spring and at 7 years of age, not only has his fleece been amazing in the past, but the current traits he is exhibiting are still remarkable. AND his EPD's demonstrate that he will consistently and reliably pass those traits on to his offspring. Tierra Prometida’s “Snowmass Touche” was biopsied as a 7 year old white huacaya male with ARI#30408753. His 15X scan demonstrates large fiber clusters very uniform in size and placement. This trait was likely passed from his dam. His density is 76.75 follicles SQ MM of skin and his average S/P ratio based on 25 fiber clusters is 12.0 to 1.

We are thrilled for the opportunity to own Snowmass Matrix Moonlight. She is a beautiful beige daughter of Snowmass Matrix. She has wonderful conformation and bite with a fine, dense fleece that is full of character and should compliment Motivator's fleece style perfectly. In addition to her elite light fleece genetics, she is a grand daughter of Snowmass Nova and so carries some elite color genetics as well. She has proven herself to be a reliable producer no matter who we have used as her service sire. Snowmass Matrix Moonlight currently has a beautiful Snowmass Elite Legend daughter at her side-TP Chandra of Legend who is a promising young female. Her 15x scan shows fiber clusters that are uniform in shape. Her density is 46.75 follicles SQ MM of skin while 25 fiber clusters showed an average S/P of 11.6 to 1. She shows level 1 of 4 gland presence which is a genetic trait passed usually as a male trait to the off spring in the form of fiber brightness. Note on all scans that less than 10% of her secondary fibers are medullated where 50-60 is average in most huacayas at any age. 100 secondary fibers averaged 16.7 microns and 50 primary fibers average 20.1 microns for a variation of only 3.4 microns. While Moonlight is not the most dense female and does not have the highest level of gland presence, she grades in the top 1 percent for other traits. This level of fineness is extremely rare. A male with nice gland presence and density should produce champions with Moonlight.