Johnny Bravo is that dark silver grey male that I had been looking for all along. It took me awhile to find him, but boy, better late than never! Purchased in-utero by his original owner, Johnny is the product of Crescent Moon's elite breeding program. His sire, Crescent Moon's Donato, is a 10x champion, including the futurity, and Johnny is his first offspring. As a son of the great ATV Adonnis, and out of a maroon daughter of Camilio, Donato's excellence is no fluke. He is passing it, along with his grey coloring, on to his offspring with great reliability. Johnny's dam, Crescent Moon's Morning Glory, represents a unique blend of elite genetics. Her dam is Nasahuento's Poppy, making her maternal half-sister to the legendary Rayo Del Sol. Her sire, Crescent Moon's Kryptonite, is a rare true black son of Legacy, who has proven his ability to produce the extreme fineness that made his sire a legend -- only in black and grey. Johnny carries the awesome type, total coverage, and beautiful headstyle that I want to see in an alpaca. He is an ideal size -- not too tall, but very stocky, with an excellent spring of rib to accompany his fantastic bone. His conformation is excellent. I already mentioned the head, but it's so great that I need to mention it again -- his head rocks. Excellent density, brightness, and a beautiful crimp style characterize this guy's fleece. He is not lacking in the area of fineness, either, as his first fleece carried an AFD of 17.7; his second had an AFD of 18.8 and a comfort factor of 95.9%. His coloring is one of my absolute favorites -- a dramatic, extremely dark silver grey with swirls and spots of light. Well, Johnny's first six cria have arrived, and while they are all gorgeous -- beautiful heads, great coverage, big bone and bright, bright fleeces -- not one of them is grey. We are aiming for quality, to be sure, but we are exclusively grey breeders here, so sadly, Johnny isn't going to get much work here the way our program is structured. He's never been bred to grey, so a grey breeder who is willing to take a chance on him might get a killer deal. Otherwise, I'm happy to have him hang out -- he is some serious eye candy.

Great Day is perhaps the very definition of a "sleeper." She is a quiet girl, ultra-compact, and a super easy keeper who gets along with everyone. Her pedigree, too, is quietly excellent: her sire, FCF Atreyu, may not be well-known, but he is possessed of outstanding fineness -- 15.6 AFD on his first fleece; 20.4 AFD on his fifth -- and his few offspring have all inherited it as well. His sire, Rensselaer, is renowned as a producer of elite-fleeced offspring, and his bloodlines are rare -- a son of P3 White Lightning and out of impact dam Azul Celest, his parents are producers of excellence whose lineages are well-known, yet uncommon in the elite alpaca world. Great Day's dam sire is the great Victor's Hemiaccoyo Casanova -- sire of Aussie .38 Special, among many others champions -- and her dam line traces back to Peruvian Leon, a medium fawn Accoyo import who was a cornerstone of the renowned Heart's Desire herd. Back to Great Day. She is not ostentatious -- she is shy, quiet, and minds her own business. However, she is a beautiful animal, with excellent substance of bone, good conformation, a super compact frame, full coverage and a gorgeous head. She is very pleasing to the eye. Under the hood, Great Day has always been a sleeper here, because she is so shy and quiet that it's easy to forget what an awesome fleece she has. Her first fleece had a tidy AFD of 16.1, and she has retained an excellent degree of fineness as she has aged -- along with a beautiful little high-frequency crimp style and excellent brightness. The real deal, though -- the ultimate test -- is her cria. Great Day's 2016 boy has the most incredible fleece that we have ever produced. He has an ultra-high-frequency crimp that is absolutely everywhere on his body, even up his topknot. He is bright, dense, ultra-organized, and fine, fine, fine. He is also grey ... Light rose/lavender grey. He's also absolutely adorable. Great Day will remain in our foundation herd and is not for sale. Given the quality of her first cria, we have repeated the breeding that produced him, and hers will be one of our most anticipated offspring every year.