UPDATE: sometime in the summer of 2018, Manchu quit producing sperm. We finally tested and confirmed in spring of 2019. He had a long run and produced many outstanding cria. We are thrilled to still have daughters, sons and grandlkids still in the herd. He is retired to live out his time in the old guys pasture. Thanks Manchu!! 2015 Histogram just in AFD 24.3 SD 4.4 CF 92.2 Medulation 5.2 AT 11 YEARS OLD!! 9 Time Champion/Reserve ~ 12 First Place Awards! FULL ACCOYO! Here is what Amanda VandenBosch had to say when she evaluated him for us this February 2006…… “Overall this male is excellent! He is a strong male with excellent substance of bone. He has a triangular head shape with a broad muzzle and good distance from eye to lower face. He is true to type thru his head and overall proportions, exhibiting fineness, uniformity of character throughout the blanket and excellent density for fineness. True Herdsire prospect! As you can see from his histograms over the years he is VERY consistent. He sheared 13.9 POUNDS in his 2008 annual shearing. 14.2 lbs in his 2009 annual shearing, 14.8 lbs in his 2010 shearing. WOW. DENSE. 2007 Skin biopsy - Follicular Density of 61; S/P Ratio 11/1 Age 15 mo. (Watts 2006) His 2008 Fleece (4 years old – D age category) Scored 80.5 points at AOBA Nationals 08; Fineness/Handle 18/20!; Crimp 8/10! Manchu was still winning Fleece Championships at 5 years of age. His 2009 Fleece took Reserve Color Champion!! At 10 years of age - 2014 IAO Reserve Longevity of Fineness Champion!! Manchu’s progeny exhibit all the qualities of their sire. Of the 98 progeny on the ground, 50 have been shown, 21 of those have bannered!!! Almost 1/2 that show, WIN!! Outstanding female crias swept 4 SHOWS. 3 Shows in A ROW fall of 2010 winning Reserve and Color Champion at EACH SHOW! AlpacaMania 2010; Gold Country Gathering 2010; National Elite 2010 and in 2011 the California Classic. Excellent males sweep white in 2012 California Classic; 2013 IAO Cottage and 2014 Gold Country - WOW! 2017 EPDs TOP ONE PERCENT in TWO TRAITS! AFD -1.836 Rank 3.15% Top 5% SDAFD -0.351 Rank 12.79% Top 15% SF -1.756 Rank 4.31% Top 5% %F>30 -6.554 Rank 3.31% Top 5% MC 4.282 Rank 5.26% Top 10% %M -6.715 Rank 0.27% Top 1% MSL -0.168 Rank 53.5% FW 1.514 Rank 0.08% Top 1%

November 2019 - Harmonia has been rebred to Snowmass Smokin. Her 1st Smokin cria is a lovely chocolate brown color with black points - very, very, dense too. What's not to love? What do you say about a female who consistently produces blue ribbon winning and champion offspring, births and nurses with ease, is a great mum to her cria, is an easy keeper in the herd, knows her name, holds her fineness and produces lovely fleece year after year - ROCKSTAR!! A.K.A Harmonia, this lovely dam holds a place in my heart and in our herd that's more than just the sum of all of her fantastic qualities. As a youngster, she tore it up in the show ring taking quite a few honors and producing the most marvelous marroon-ish colored fleece. I was sold the minute I laid eyes on her and am blessed to this day by the fact that she was the 1st female I purchased for the ranch. Of course, Harmonia continues to reign supreme out in the pasture. She has gone on to become the QUEEN ROCKSTAR of the ranch, welcoming all new cria and herd mates, and of course, producing some mighty nice offspring of her own. Each one of her offspring has gone on to not only win in the show ring but also produce champions of their own. The consistency shown in Harm's offspring, and their offspring is amazing; we're seeing lasting fineness, above-average density, beautiful fleece architecture, long-staple length and brightness across the board. Simply put, the Harmonia line just ROCKS! Uniformity, consistency, fineness, density and a great mothering ability - you can't ask for more. We couldn't be happier with what we see in her and is the reason why Harmonia remains part of the ROCKSTAR foundation herd.

From early on Bon Jovi exhibited a beautifully, soft, bright white fleece that has stayed extremely fine, with lots of bundles densely packed onto a conformationally perfect and well-balanced frame. Crimp everywhere with fiber down to his toes. He has an awesome-looking head, very level topline, perfect bite/jaw set, and outstanding substance of bone. His first cria are on the ground (we are thrilled) and he is passing on his highly desirable fleece traits and phenotype to his offspring. We have been thrilled with and were VERY surprised and pleased with Bon Jovi's appearances at GWAS and the International Alpaca Odyssey (IAO) in 2014 where he took first place as a Yearling White Male and Reserve Color Championship in Cottage, first place in the Light Male Walking Fleece Show and second place just behind Snowmass Seventh Samurai in the Commercial Halter ring. Judges' comments praised Bon Jovi's combination of fineness with density, brightness of fleece, length of staple/fiber architecture, overall uniformity, and lack of guard hair moving across his blanket, through the shoulder area, and down his legs. I nearly passed out as he was praised for these fleece characteristics in both the Cottage and Commercial show rings and could not be more pleased with the comments from Peter Kennedy at GWAS. In his only show appearance in 2015, BJ won 1st place in the male 2YO class and then went on to win the color championship as well. He's sporting some very nice fleece stats at age 3 with an AFD of 17.7, 3.8 SD, CV of 21.5%, and .5 >30%. BJ's 2016 skin biopsy by Dr. Norm Evans confirmed some of what we were thinking in terms of density and uniformity. Email me for a copy of the biopsy results. Most importantly, Bon Jovi to this day represents the cornerstone of our breeding program which is to focus on that highly sought-after uniformity of micron, fineness with density, staple length, brightness, lack of primary fiber, and excellence in conformation. He passes all of those fleece traits to his offspring - and routinely passes the fawn color of his sire and granddam. Book a breeding today!