Monet is an older dam that has maintained her looks and fiber quality very well. She was the 1st place winner in Beige at the 2001 AOBA Nationals. Monet is known for producing high quality cria with lots of density, crimp and fineness, as well as excellent conformation. Unfortunately, she doesn't always produce color when bred to color. Having said that, she's produced two fabulous cria now when bred to gray, a black and a rose gray! Monet's 2010 cria (Persey) out of SA Peruvian Grand Moreno is an irridescent white male. Persey has excellent conformation and extremely dense, crimpy, irridescent fleece. At three, he has grown up to have quite the herdsire presence. Monet's 2011 cria (Starlight) out of our white herdsire JA Eisenhower, is a pretty white female. She has nice conformation and lovely, soft, crimpy fiber that is very dense. Her 2012 cria (Horse) is a gorgeous true black male out of our light silver grey herdsire (Amego). Horse's fleece is very bright, very dense, and very fine with a long staple length. He took second place at the 2013 California Classic and a first at the 2013 Gold Country Gathering. We can't wait to see how he grows up. We were so thrilled to get nice color from Monet, that we bred her to Skywalker's Justice for her 2013 cria. Justice took the Color Championship in brown at the 2010 Gold Country Gathering and also at the 2011 California Classic. That cria, Blizzard, is on the ground and alas he's white. But, he's displaying a very nice conformation and lovely, soft, really dense, popcorn fleece. Were anxious to see how he grows up. Monet was once again bred to CMN Amego in the hope that she'd produce another cria in 2015 with Horse's lovely fleece and outstanding conformation. And Viola! she gave us a gorgeous rose gray girl! This cria has the most amazingly dense, crimpy fleece and very correct conformation we've seen in a cria! She sells with a free rebreeding to any Menagerie Hill Ranch owned Herdsire. News Flash! The 2012 ARI EPDs are out. Monet's EPDs are showing a great ability to improve your herd by producing cria with finer and more uniform fleece with a higher staple length!

Kit Carson has once again returned to CA for the winter/spring and can't wait to meet your girls! We're so excited to have him back and are looking forward to showing his youngsters at the Gold Country Gathering this fall! Recently at the 2021 Gold Country Gathering, our first show in two years, son MHAR Aurelio Carson won RC in Walking Fleece! Judge Cheryl Gehly comment on his fineness, uniformity across primaries/secondaries and lack of guard hair! Check out his 2020 cria fleece (6 months). The photo doesn't do it justice as it rivals dad's for brightness and character! 2019 saw daughter Ebonni Carson win CC in walking fleece (TB) at the Gold Country Gathering under Wini Labrecque! We're so in love with all his cria, but this one is truly special:) The first thing we noticed about his cria is the outstanding vigor, and once dry the brightness of the fleece! And the fleece character is no slouch either. As the cria have grown, we're seeing excellent early density and crimp, glowing brightness, and yummy softness/hand. Oh and the depth of color! Check out the pix of some of our first cria in all their dusty glory. Oh and let's not forget personality... these cria are among the most laid back and easiest to train that we have produced! KC took his first championship at 8 months of age. Since then, his fleece has maintained its length and fineness and he remains one of the best grey males in the country. His production has not disappointed with multiple championships among his offspring. To date we've counted at least 18 of his offspring have won RCC or Color Championships! Among the most recent are RR Crawford, RR Lancelot, 4-Sight's Centerfold, MHAR's Ebonni Carson and MHAR Aurelio Carson. If you have a look at his Watt follicle testing results, the reasons will be obvious. The mix of black and white fibers in his grey is homogeneous in micron. He is the only alpaca, male or female, that carries the best characteristics of the Snowmass Peruvian Casanova and Guns n Roses lines. His follicle density testing by Ian Watt is outstanding at 2 years of age: Density: 57.9/mm2 Secondary: Primary fiber ratio: 9.8:1 In-skin primary fiber diameter: 22.3 micron SD 3.2 In-skin secondary fiber diameter: 13.7 micron SD 2.5 Comments: "High density coupled with an excellent set of numbers for the secondary fiber population give this male potential as a significant sire in .... a group not known for its uniformity within each fiber population. This is a significant animal for silver grey alpacas, where the black fibers tend to be very strong in micron and vary across the staple in most alpacas of this colour.