The power of pedigree

Sweet Baby Ray XXX

Alpaca, Huacaya, Male | Dark Fawn

Sire: Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy XXX

Snowmass XXXtreme Legacy XXX

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Dark Brown

AOA# 31349802DOB: 8/21/200816 yrs

Snowmass XXXtreme LegacyXXX is co-owned with Double O Good Alpacas. He is a Judges Choice and 6 time Get a Sire winner and Reserve Get of Sire Winner at the Futurity. He has produced Championship offspring that keep winning and winning. They all carry the same dense uniform fleece from the top of heads all the way down both sides. If you are looking to add a dark rich fawn or brown to your program. XXX may be the boy to help you there.

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 AOA# 31349802 Dark Brown

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The name "Snowmass" has, at this point, become synonymous with quality in the alpaca world, and for good reason -- their decades-old program is, at this point, producing some of the most consistent alpacas in the world. This consistency was achieved, among other things, through the careful use of line-breeding to "lock in" the hereditary traits of interest in the animals' shared ancestors. Not all Snowmass animals are equivalent, of course, and a name does not automatically confer quality, but the reality is that this breeding program is recognized around the world because they are, by and large, doing something right. This little male is an extremely nice example of the phenotypic (physical) and genotypic (genetic) traits that have made Snowmass animals so successful. He is compact in stature, with absolutely perfect conformation. I am truly a conformation stickler, and this guy is perfect. His lines are straight and his proportions are square. His breed type -- that which defines him as a "Snowmass-style" Huacaya -- is ideal: he has excellent substance of bone, a beautiful head with a short, square muzzle, and full fleece coverage on his legs. His fleece is very dense and very fine, with a long staple and lovely hand. ... This is all because of his pedigree. Ray's dam is Beauty's Finale, who we are thrilled to have added to our foundation herd. She is a Snowmass Matrix daughter who is, at the time of this writing, the only one of our five Matrix daughters that is positively NOT for sale (read: she's awesome). Matrix, the $675,000 alpaca, likely needs no introduction to most alpaca breeders, but I am quite certain that it is Finale's dam, Haiku's Beauty, who truly cements her excellence. Beauty was a daughter of the incomparable 4Peruvian Legacy, unquestionably one of the greatest alpaca impact sires to have lived, whose blood runs in the veins of nearly half of our herd -- and a very good proportion of Snowmass's as well. Beauty's dam, Haiku, was a true impact dam, producing consistent, exceptional quality with dozens of descendents to her credit. It should be little surprise, then, that Beauty's Finale exhibits such excellence, because not only were her descendents rock stars, but her breeders used a careful line-breed on 4P Legacy to "cement" that excellence in her line: Matrix is a Legacy grandson, making Finale line-bred on Legacy. Ray's sire, Judge's Choice winner XXXTreme Legacy XXX, is a son of Conopa XXX and out of Snowmass Chiribaya -- both great grand-get of Legacy. This makes Ray 4x line-bred on Legacy. He also boasts impact sire Hemingway twice in his pedigree, and impact sire Bueno three times. This thoughtful use of linebreeding -- on these particular impact sires -- is the hallmark of Snowmass's program, and Ray shows it. He's a nice boy. Why is Ray for sale? ... Well, I'm honestly not all that eager to sell him, but the fact is that we are a grey and harlequin program, and Ray is fawn, and I'm keeping his dam, so

Updated 3/23/2017