Snowmass Rising Sun daughter
ELK Shenandoah Treasure
HuacayaOpen (Female)Dark Brown
AOA# 35106500DOB: 5/22/201311 yrs
Looking for a serious female for a serious color program? This gal might just be your ticket.
Shenandoah Treasure represents a very rare, very valuable find for colored alpaca breeders, as she is one of less than thirty offspring of Snowmass Rising Sun. Rising Sun was one of only a dozen offspring of Quechua's Rising Son, a Snowmass Quechua son who was 3/4 brother to Snowmass Elite Legend, to have been born in the USA. Quechua's Rising Son was exported to New Zealand, and Rising Sun was his only son sold by Snowmass to an outside farm. Snowmass Rising Sun was listed on Double O Good's "Herdsire Hall of Fame," and his breedings restricted, before he was lost abruptly at the age of four. He produced less than twenty daughters, and Treasure is one of them.
Treasure should be of particular appeal to grey breeders, as her dam, ELK Peruvian Lucrezia, is a dark silver (roan) grey -- and it appears that Treasure inherited this gene, as her 2016 daughter by Snowmass Kahuna Sunrise is a dark roan rose grey.
Treasure is a tall, elegant, stately female with great presence and a beautiful headstyle. She has good bone substance and conformation. At present, she has lost much of her coverage to a hot southern summer and standing in the water bowls, but this should grow back with time -- she certainly had it once! Treasure's fleece is, as is befitting her lineage, extremely dense. She has good apparent fineness and uniformity and a high-frequency crimp style.
A proven dam, Treasure has been an excellent mother to her beautiful 2016 cria. This cria is a great example of her production capabilities, as she is typey, correct, and very, very fine with excellent fleece character.
We are tentatively keeping Treasure's 2016 cria, but have elected to list Treasure for sale.
OMG. Treasure's 2017 cria was born last night -- last one of the year -- and she is absolutely spectacular. She has everything: Bone, coverage, head, and an unbelievably dense fleece with ridiculous crimp at hours old. Oh, and she's a tuxedo rose grey. We are definitely keeping this one, and I do believe that breeding is getting repeated. (Oh, and her sire just got bumped up several notches on our stud row. Yes, she's that good!)
Treasure's price has been adjusted to reflect the fact that both of her cria grew somewhat slowly. Both were born into rough environmental conditions -- one in the heat of summer in VA; the other into a brutal winter in NH -- so we aren't writing her off just yet; however, she is being sold "as is," so to speak, with full disclosure of this fact.