Like father like son. Avatar's Avalance sire is the multiple championship winning rose grey herdsire Avatar from Delphi Alpacas. Avalance has his dad's beautiful fine, dense, and crimpy rose grey fiber. Also taking after his sire, Lance has done very well in the show ring in large competitive classes. 4 shows and 4 ribbons and a 4th place at Nationals in a class of 15!!! People are first drawn to Avalance by his gorgeous color. Head to toe coverage on this grey boy. Strong grey genetics have come through on his first crias. Four crias in the ring and all of them took home ribbons. One took a second place to a Snowmass Cria! Look for more of his crias to continue parading through the show ring. Avalance is very fine for color, with a 22.4 micron at age 5 years and his latest numbers are in - at age 10 he's at 24.0 microns! That's just a 1.6 micron increase in 5 years! Simply awesom! Passing on fineness to his crias is his M.O. If you are looking to soften up on your darker colors, this is the Herdsire for the job. Microns on some of his greys are ranging from 17-19!! Here's your chance to acquire some of Avatar's great genetics!

Periwinkle is a great foundation dam. Before joining the Rare Gem line up, Periwinkle was a grey program foundation dam. She threw 3 out of 3 grey offspring when bred to grey. Suspecting that she may be a "blank", she was added to the Rare Gem harlequin / appaloosa team. Sure enough, she has thrown 2 out of 2 harlequin / appaloosas for us when bred to harlequin appaloosa herdsire, Cashmere's U-Taupe-ia. The first boy was a handsome beige with spots on his belly and legs that greyed out down his neck and topline. He has joined Sleepy Acre Farms stud row as a future stud for their harlequin / appaloosa program. Periwinkle's second Rare Gem offspring is the stunning Heart Kandi. She is the most uniquely color / patterned appaloosa to date. Her blanket is a solid dark fawn and she has black spots on her legs, belly and chin. She is a big strong cria and very loveable. Periwinkle is a stellar breeding dam... never a problem getting pregnant, holds her pregnancies, delivers large 20lb plus babies, has tons of milk and is the most attentive of moms. Periwinkle’s sire is none other than Bisturi, the legendary grey herdsire. Bisturi is a stunning grey male with a gorgeous evenly colored fleece. He has a fabulous pedigree that yields itself to producing not only grey, but quality fleece in general. Offspring: - 2012 Periwinkle had a handsome grey male from Silverado’s Peruvian Silver Fox. - 2013 Periwinkle had a gorgeous light silver grey girl, Epic Alpacas Athena, from multiple award winner Chief Grey Feather (#31825610). - 2014 Periwinkle did it again! This time, a beautiful dark silver grey girl out of Avatar’s Avalance, Persephone! - 2016 Periwinkle continues to throw exactly was asked for. This year is a beautiful big-boned, densely- fleeced boy with gorgeous crimp harlequin appaloosa. He took two Blue Ribbons in his first show. Sold! This pairing will be repeated for a 2018 offspring! -2018 And AGAIN! Periwinkle produced a very unique, appaloosa girl. We have named her Heart Kandi as she is the sweetest cria ever. :-) Congratulations to Plateau Breeze on the purchase of Periwinkle and her 2018 cria, Heart Kandi for their appaloosa foundation!

Fall 2022- Congratulations to Mary Miller of Aspen Alpacas on her purchase of FTAF Privateer. At age 10, Privateer is as handsome as ever and going strong. We are ever so grateful for what he has added to our herd over the years. He has blessed Rare Gem Alpacas and our clients with many amazing champions and foundation offspring. We will miss this sweet dispositioned boy, but happy that he is going to such a great home and program. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Privateer's offspring made their first show appearance March 2019. RG Privateer's First Mate took two 1 firsts and Grey Color Champion in both Halter (out of 17) and Walking Fleece (out of 33). RG Harley's Davidson took first of 13 in his Walking Fleece class and then Reserve Color Champion Walking Fleece (25 total). We can now add "Producer of Champions" to Privateer's list of fine qualities. Privateer’s grey, 3X color champion son sold at 2020 Amber Autumn Auction. Congratulations Jamey Haney on her purchase of this beautiful Privateer offspring. Privateer's 2017 skin biopsy at 5yrs old by Dr. Norm Evans shows a density of 71 follicles/sqmm. SP ratio is 12.1 to 1 with level 4 of 4 gland presence which correlates with what senior judges are referring to as “well-nourished fleeces”. Secondary fibers average 21.9 microns and primary fibers averaging 30.1 giving him a variation of only 8.2 microns. I greatly anticipated the arrival of this guy and he is all that I expected and more. He is out Crown Jewel of PVA and SHVN The Buccaneer (who passes on lingering fineness to his offspring), both of whom are multiple champion animals! What a powerhouse background this guy possesses, The Elite Maximus, Hemingway, Bobbie Ann on the dams side and Pot of Gold, Royal Inca Legend on his sire's side, no wonder he is such a gorgeous animal. Privateer is stunning. As you can see by his fleece, he possesses awesome structure and the brightness to his fleece is blinding. Take that with his gorgeous head and coverage everywhere and we are looking at a boy that will make an excellent herdsire! Privateer's fleece is that "elite" fleece with bundles everywhere and secondary bundles coming out of each bundle, even down to his knee and under his belly and on his chest. He also has dark skin which should allow him to pass color. He has placed well in the shows and has always been up against very tough competition. The animals that placed above him were always from very big farms. So that should tell you where this boys really stands in the line up of future herdsires. Privateer started his breeding career Fall 2016 and has thrown many champions and has champion grand-offspring as well. He tends to throw the color of the female— while significantly upgrading fleece characteristics. If you have a dam that you love the color of and want to look for improvements in AFD (fineness that lasts!), SD, density, crimp, brightness!