GLR Picasso is sired by Shavano, the 2010 AAA Dark Herdsire of the Year. His mother was one of our ranch favorites, and top producers of all time, Rock Star's Peruvian Paloma, also a multiple color champion herself. His micron count is 15.8, one of the lowest colored suri micron counts we have ever experienced at Great Lakes Ranch at the time. His luster in incredible and at only 6.2 months of age he entered his first show and came away with the Brown Male Reserve Color Championship at the 2010 AAA Futurity and the 2010 GWAS in Denver. He is greasy to the touch and has a great head and full beard with amazing coverage ever since he was born. Picasso's first offspring was GLR Amayah, out of one of our best producing foundation females, GLR Amelita, and she topped our crop of kids on the ranch for that year and took 2nd at both the AAA Futurity and MAPACA, the biggest show of the year, and went on to win the Reserve Brown Female Color Championship as a juvenile at the 2013 AOBA Nationals. Amayah, the next year went on to continue to win color championships and a coveted Judges Choice Award at the AAA Futurity, and Brown Color Champion at the Suri Network Fleece show. Picasso himself was 1st in his class in the Mature Brown Male Class and was favorably talked about by senior judge Jude Anderson for his luster and regrowth on his third fleece. His second daughter a beautiful true black female named GLR Jamiyah was a multiple color champion and earned 2 Judges Choice awards at the 2015 AOA Nationals that the 2015 MAPACA Jubilee. Two notable 2015 cria that made waves in the show ring in the spring of 2016 were GLR Joaquin, who started his show career at just over six months old and won the Reserve Brown Color Championship at the 2016 AOA Nationals and also at the Mapaca Jubilee. GLR Sombria, another Picasso daughter started her show career at just seven months old and won the 2016 AOA, MAPACA and GWAS Black Female Color Championship and the 2016 AAA Futurity Reserve Black Female Championship . On the first round of micron testing, Picasso's kids are standouts. We co-own Picasso with Airell and Gretchen Nygaard of EvenTyrGaard Alpacas of Sonora, CA.GLR Picasso is closed to outside breedings. Awards Received 2010 AAA Futurity- 1st and Reserve Brown Male Color Champion 2010 GWAS- 1st and Reserve Brown Male Color Champion 2011 Mapaca- 1st Yearling Brown Male and Color Champion 2011 AAA Futurity- 1st and Reserve Brown Male Color Champion 2011 GWAS- 4th place yearling brown male 2011 AOBA Nationals- 2nd place Dark Brown Yearling Male 2011 Suri Network Fleece Show- 1st place 2011 AOBA Nationals- 2nd dark brown yearling males 2011 Suri Netword Fleece Show- 1st place 2011 AOBA Nationals- 2nd place Dark Brown Yearling Male

Elsa is a daughter of Ben's Boy who is a AAA Futurity White Male Color Champion and has Uribe, NGG Cortez, and 4P Black Gold in her pedigree. Elsa was first bred to Young Felipe, our 5 time White Color Champion and produced a high luster, 17.8 micron count beautiful male, GLR Apatche, who was a member of our 2009 show string. Elsa had a beautiful little girl, GLR Etta James, another Young Felipe kid who was sold at the 2010 AAA Futurity. Elsa was bred next to our mulitple winning grey color champion, GLR Kolaqua and had an adorable, wooly rose grey female, GLR Eliza who was member of our 2011 show string and sold the same year. Elsa had a very nice 2013 Rastamon daughter, GLR Ella, sired by GLR Pablo, a Shavano son, who showed at the 2014 MAPACA Jubilee and was 1st in her class. Elsa's 2014 cria was GLR Eldorado, a bay black Rastamon son who was the 2015 AAA Futurity Black Male Color Champion and was purchased by The Midnight Moon Alpaca Farm at the AAA Futurity Sale in 2016.Her 2015 male cria, GLR Equator, is a beautiful brown Picasso son who ought to be competitive in the show ring in 2017 as a yearling. With her colored pedigree and excellent fiber genetics, no matter who we breed Elsa to, she gives us beautiful babies! And with no MacGyver in her blood she is a perfect outcross. We love her! We bred her back to Picasso this year and she is expecting a cria in summer 2016.