The focus of our close to 20 year breeding program has been fleece - fine fleece, dense fleece, fleece with a long staple length & fleece that is consistent in fineness, crimp & color. Our primary focus has been fleece. When cria are born, we evaluate them on their fleece quality & conformation - color is often a bonus & has not been a focus for us. So when we got that "gotta have a grey" compulsion and began looking for a grey herd sire to breed to some of our best fleeced girls who have generations of ancestors here on the farm, we had some very high expectations in mind. We don't want to just produce greys. We don't want to just produce a nice grey. We want to be able to produce nice greys as consistently as we've produced elite fleeced whites & fawns. When I saw Mattie for the first time, I was impressed. When I felt Mattie for the first time, I was in love. Then the research began & the fleece samples were requested & the micron reports were gone over with a fine toothed comb. It quickly became evident to me that Mattie could produce beautifully fleeced cria consistently for our farm. His fleece is exquisite. With a low micron and a low CV, his fleece has a buttery feel & an uncommonly soft handle, especially for a grey. His staple length rivals some of the best at my farm. He has consistent, tight crimp & has few spots on his blanket. Mattie's genetics are among the best in the business. His sire is Lancaster, owned by Flying Pony, whose genetics are so sought after, he has over 300 cria. Mattie is among only 6 grey males that Lancaster has ever produced. Lancaster's sire is Conan whom we've admired for years. We have several Conan offspring here on the farm and rarely part with these genetics. Mattie's dam is a ribbon winner herself who has produced gorgeous cria including a Judge's Choice winner. We are proud to co-own Mattie with Gentle Breeze Alpacas & Out of Sight Alpacas.

Euphoria is the full sister to 4X Champion and Judge's Choice Winner, Ideuma Creek's Accoyo Truman. We were elated when Truman was born. He was gorgeous from the moment of birth. We sold half ownership of him when he was just a few months old. The quality of Truman's fleece was the driving factor to us eventually purchasing ownership in his sire, Accoyo Stratosphere. Last year we had the first opportunity to repeat the Truman breeding - Accoyo Stratosphere to perhaps our best dam, Accoyo Venice. Venice is the daughter of 3X Champion, Maverick, a Royal Fawn son. Venice has super fine fleece - 16 micron - and has held its softness even now after several cria. The result was Euphoria, and she is nothing short of exceptional. She is every bit as beautiful as her full brother, and her fleece is just as exquisite. We can't wait to show it! Euphoria is a dark medium fawn - very dark for a full Accoyo. She has great coverage, crimpy fine fleece that forms delicate long bundles. She is consistent, dense, and like her dam - exhibits very little secondary fiber in her blanket. She has the potential to earn ribbons equal to her full brother. Euphoria delivered her 2015 cria, and we couldn't be happier. . .a silver grey girl! She is so stunning that we've rebred Euphoria to Grey Matter again this year. We'd be thrilled with a carbon copy of Willow - male or female version - for 2016.