RC '16 AOA Fleece, CC '17 AOA Halter Maelstrom is a 13x champion, the 2016 AOA National Fleece Black Reserve Champion, and 2017 AOA National Halter Black Male Color Champion. His first fleece was measured in 2015 to be 18.81 AFD / 3.62 SD / 19.2% CoV. To bring home his banners, he combined awesome shiny, fine and uniform handle with tight crimp from his dam with Secret's inky-black similarly crimpy, shiny, and consistent fiber. Though both dam and sire have great coverage, Mael's head is credited to his sire's beautiful headstyle that cannot help but catch the eye. He is well conformed and balanced in his frame. Maelstrom has a lineage filled with champion banners, exceptional lineage, and black genetics. In Maelstrom, you have a list of "who's who" merging into a TRUE BLACK 7/8 Peruvian cornerstone herdsire. Maelstrom is the progeny of our multiple champion black herdsire Wolf Den's Dark Secret, who is the optimal result of the pairing of Dark Quest crossed with Othello bloodlines. His paternal grandsire is the well known Snowmass Nova's Dark Quest, son of the famous Snowmass Nova, son of Snowmass Peruvian Casanova. He is out of our lovely Fossil Ridge's Special K, a 7x champion fawn dam hailing from the multiple Champion Rumaki, a Royal Fawn son with the bloodlines of Presido and Felix. His crias have been stunning! Maelstrom's cria coloration to date is 88% black (TB or BB) from a black dam and 100% on our farm by dams whose pedigrees are known to produce black and/or are loaded in black. He has been bred to both black (49%) and non-black (51%) dams. When bred to the lighter colored dams (white, beige, light fawn) he produced crias darker than their dams 60% of the time, even some black crias! When his progeny have been bred to black, 100% of the descendants have been black. More than of one of his crias born to dams at our clients' farms have been described as "blue-black" in their owners glowing compliments.

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Maelstrom is closed to outside breedings. He is not available for sale unless with the purchase of entire herd; in that event, no breedings will be allowed until he is paid off in full.

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AutumnSun's Jet-Black Pearl has the genetics for a good addition to a black and grey breeding program. Pearl is a well grown female, boxy with solid bones, with a well-balanced frame. She is calm and easy-going, relaxed around people and guardian dogs. Her fleece has good density in good staple, and she has excellent coverage on her head and legs. Her fiber is glossy with a consistent medium amplitude crimp. In her maturity she shows the effects of being an excellent mom as her fleece is blown out. But, as a 2-year-old she had a soft lofty fleece that handled well. She has consistent white fibers throughout her black and intensifying at her chest, neck and legs. She clearly has a grey gene and is now an expressed modern dark silver grey -- despite her name. For her first cria, by multiple champion male Snowmass Matrix Belvedere (now standing stud at Crescent Moon Ranch), had beautifully striking looks! Puzzle started as MB, but but like her mom she quickly turned a lovely MRG with white markings on her face and white fibers throughout her blanket. Then, Pearl had a lovely dark brown girl, Blissful Burgundy, by our appaloosa herdsire Jacob that developed into a modern grey. Bliss matured quickly an became an excellent production dam in our herd. In 2016, Pearl produced a lovely LRG girl sired by our MRG champion Longbow. This sweetheart has elegant looks. And, what a sweetheart! Ellycris is growing into a regal, graceful girl with distinct MRG fiber. When bred to our champion AutumnSun's Black Maelstrom she proved a lovely fawn girl with black points (Orla) and then the next year, a beautiful true black girl (Cady) that we lost in our terrible winter. That was devastating as she was planned for auction.