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A week after shearing – super bright and such rich color Incredible Staple Length Prior to Shearing Long, Crimpy Bundles of Fleece Excellent Bite Sire:  PATAGONIA'S LENNOX

True Black Fleece Machine!

ESTATES SHANIKO - SOLD

Alpaca, Huacaya, Open (Female) | True Black

AOA #35252009 | DOB: 4/21/2016 (8 yrs)

Sire: PATAGONIA'S LENNOX - Deceased

Legendary Champion Producer!

PATAGONIA'S LENNOX - Deceased

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Light Brown
AOA# 842940DOB: 6/29/200222 yrs
PATAGONIA'S LENNOX: Patagonia’s Lennox is one of the Greats!..As assessed by senior judge, Amanda VandenBosch, Lennox born in 2002 was an “A” quality herdsire in 2014. He has lingering fineness, bright, dense fleece, with a long staple length, typey head and compact body. His shiny brown fleece shimmers in the sunlight even to this day. Lennox made a mark for not only himself, but for Alpacas de le Patagonia, siring a multitude of quality offspring including champions and many progenies that are currently top breeding herdsires and foundation producing dams. His show wins are numerous with Color Championships, Get of Sire, and Blues, and in addition, his offspring have received multitudes of banners and ribbons. Lennox has produced black, brown, fawn, white and grey offspring. Patagonia’s Lennox had a skin biopsy of Density: 83.25 SQ MM (Rates in the top 0.5 % of all alpacas tested by Dr. Evans) S/P Ratio: 10.8 to 1 and this Histogram in 2004 year was: Histogram: 20.2afd/4.1sd/20.0cv/1.6%>30 (taken at 2 years of age) REMARKABLE SHOW RECORD: Lennox's outstanding achievements are too numerous to list. Included in his impressive accomplishments, are 9x Color Champion/Reserve Champion awards. In addition, Lennox has received an amazing 14 Get of Sire Ribbons (and counting)! His influence will long be felt in our herd! CHAMPION OFFSPRING! Lennox's crias are spectacular. Their fleeces are fine and tend to exhibit a high frequency and uniform crimp throughout their blankets. Of the 115 of Lennox's offspring that Competed in the Show Ring through 2017: 3 out of the 115 were Judge's Choice Winners 43 out of the 115 were Color/Reserve Champion Banner Winners 74 out of the 115 were Blue Ribbon Winners 66 out of the 115 were Second Place Winners 95 out of the 115 were Third Place or Higher Winners Lennox's Incredible Progeny are too plentiful to display, but here are a few of our favorites: PATAGONIA'S ERNESTO - MB Male 4/28/08 (Judges Choice Winner and 7x Color/Reserve Champion) PATAGONIA'S ANTONIO - LB Male 7/14/10 (10x Color/Reserve Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S JUNEAU - DF Female 9/27/05 (8x Produce of Dam & 5x Champion) PATAGONIA'S CHIEF - TB Male 6/8/09 (4x Color/Reserve Champion & Sire of 2014 IAO Supreme Champion) RNC GYLIANA - DB Female 11/22/09 (2x Color Champion & Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S MILLIE - DF Female 10/14/09 (Color Champion & Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S LA MARIETTA - DF Female 5/23/13 (2x Reserve Color Champion & Blue Ribbon Winner) ALEUTIAN EAGLE PATAGONIA'S CAMEO - LB Female 7/2/2011 (Reserve Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) PATAGONIA'S CAMILIA - DF Female 8/19/08 (Reserve Color Champion & Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S CHILKOOT - DB Male 6/21/11 (Reserve Color Champion & Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S MAGNIFICA - TB Female 6/14/09 (Multiple Blue Ribbon Winner) PATAGONIA'S CHYLO - LB Female 7/8/10 (Multiple Blues)
 AOA# 842940 Light Brown
Dam: ESTATES STERLING CRYSTAL

Fantastic Grey Genetics!

ESTATES STERLING CRYSTAL

HuacayaBred (Female)Medium Silver Grey
AOA# 35250074DOB: 8/29/201311 yrs
ESTATES STERLING CRYSTAL Sterling Crystal's sire is multiple champion NeverSummer's US Steel, who passes on brightness, fineness and soft silky handle to his offspring. Her paternal grandsire is none other than 15x Champion and 2x Judges' Choice winner, Aussie .38 Special! Sterling Crystal's dam, Janus' Blue Crystal is our amazing silver foundation girl known as "the ultimate in grey"! Black Diamond's maternal grandsire is none other than Snowmass Sterling Legend, the Black Color Champion in the World Fleece Show, and her maternal granddam is Olana MW. Offspring: On 4/21/16, Sterling Crystal had a fabulous true black female sired by our legendary herdsire, Patagonia's Lennox. Her daughter was a ribbon winner at the 2017 Western Alpaca Challenge show. On 8/20/18, Sterling Crystal gave us a lovely dark silver-grey female sired by Estates Avignon. On 7/20/20, Sterling Crystal presented us with a beautiful medium brown female sired by our incredible Snowmass Pure Passion. On 9/28/21, Sterling Crystal gave birth to a wonderful true black female sired by judge's choice and 9X champion, KVR's Peruvian True Eye Candy "Ike."
 AOA# 35250074 Medium Silver Grey

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Description

Shaniko has a fantastic staple length, rich color and bold crimp style with fantastic grey genetics! This girl is a daughter of the legendary Patagonia’s Lennox, who has countless ribbons, and is a 3-time Get of Sire blue ribbon winner! Not to mention, he’s the sire of Ernesto, an 8-time champion and Judge’s Choice winner! On her dam’s side, Shaniko is the granddaughter of NeverSummer’s US Steel, an Aussie .38 Special son who has won numerous championships and had numerous ribbon winning offspring. Shaniko will make a great addition to any grey breeding program. Shaniko comes with her first breeding – suggested herdsires include: Grey Males: Chief Grey Feather, NS Magic Flight, Estates Gray Beard, Estates Avignon, Silverado’s Peruvian Silver Fox, Avatar’s Arion, Patagonia’s Arctic Blast Additional Males: Choose from six black herdsires Congratulations to Deb Galway who purchased Estates Shaniko. Shaniko will be going to Menagerie Hill Ranch in California.

Awards

[6th]6th Place, 2017 Western Alpaca Challenge - Walking Fleece, Huacaya True Black Yearling (Class of 8)(Judge: David Barboza)

Updated 10/26/2018