Congratulations and thank you to Laurence and Donna Binder for their purchase of Chief Grey Feather! CHIEF GREY FEATHER.... Chief Grey Feather is sired by dark silver grey HVLA Legacy’s Eldorado and true black 4x ribbon winner Matalyn. Legacy’s Eldorado is out of 4Peruvian Legacy, a 29x Get of Sire ribbon winner. Matalyn’s dam is beautiful HVLA Jane Grey an outstanding silver grey. Chief Grey Feather’s conformation is straight front and rear, correct bite with a large solid frame. His ideal fineness has a silky hand and is uniform throughout. He has high frequency with well defined crimp which extends to the lower belly. It has brightness and density. Virtually there is no guard hair. 2-year statistics: AFD 17.0, SD 3.6, CV 21.3, %>30u 0.9 Chief Grey Feather’s Royal lineage includes: ACCOYO LEGACY, ACCOYO GRANDMASTER, PERUVIAN NAOMI, PERUVIAN NOME, PERUVIAN MATADOR,PLUS MANY GENERATIONS OF BLACK & GREY GENETICS! Chief Grey Feather is the recipient of 10 ribbons, including First Place Grey Halter at GWAS and First Place Grey Halter at The Futurity along with two Get of Sire ribbons. CONFORMATION of Chief Grey Feather: Straight front & rear, Correct bite, Large solid frame FLEECE: Ideal Fineness, Silky hand, Uniform throughout High Frequency well defined Crimp which extends down to the lower belly, Virtually no guard hair BRIGHTNESS, DENSITY 2-year statistics: AFD 17.0, SD 3.6, CV 21.3, %>30u 0.9 ROYAL LINEAGE: ACCOYO LEGACY ACCOYO GRANDMASTER PERUVIAN NAOMI PERUVIAN NOME PERUVIAN MATADOR PLUS MANY GENERATIONS OF BLACK & GREY GENETICS! Grey Feather has passed along brightness, fineness and density to each cria that has hit the ground so far! He has a multitude of offspring that are Color Champion, Reserve Champions and ribbon winners. Note all of the grey offspring! AWARD WINNING PROGENY INCLUDE: ESTATES ADORED ALIKA - MB Female born 7/9/14 (5x Color/Reserve Champion!) PATAGONIA ESTATES LOVELY DOVE - LSG Female born 6/10/15 (Grey Color Champion & Multi Blue Ribbons!) ESTATES SILVER SWAN - LSG Female born 4/20/16 (Grey Color Champion & Multi Blue Ribbons!) ESTATES THANE - LSG Male born 4/20/16 (Reserve Champion & Multiple Blues!) ESTATES NATIVE SILVER VIOLET - LSG Female born 6/10/2018 (Reserve Champion) ESTATES SILVER BOREAS - MSG Male born 8/12/2016 (Multiple Blue Ribbon Winner!) ESTATES SPITFIRE SANTA ANA - MRG Female born 2/4/14 (Blue Ribbon Winner!) ESTATES SILVER EBB TIDE SPLASH - LSG Male born 9/8/2016 (2nd Place, 2018 Rockton Fair) ESTATES SHAWNEE EAGLE - LSG Male born 9/15/2016 (3rd Place, 2018 AOA Nationals)

Congratulations and thank you to Dr. Kitt Hollister, of Howling Hill Farm, for her purchase of Estates Cameo Locket! ESTATES CAMEO'S LOCKET Locket's sire is Chief Grey Feather, our stunning grey 4P Legacy grandson who is a totally outcross to pretty much the entire US grey alpaca herd. Grey Feather has been producing some very nice offspring -- a vast majority grey, quite a few true blacks, and a handful of fawns. Grey Feather’s offspring are Champions, Reserve Champions, and blue ribbon winners, with the amazing soft fleece of their sire. Locket's maternal grandsire is Snowmass Blue Epic, whose bloodlines are pure elite royalty in the alpaca world! Royal lineage includes: Snowmass Artic Blue (sire), Snowmass Black Satin (dam), Snowmass Accoycusani (Grandsire), Peruvian Black Legend (Grandsire), Snowmass Silver Pearl (Grand Dam & Dam to the famous Snowmass Royal Rose), Peruvian Bueno (Great-Grandsire), top black Snowmass black import, Peruvian Black Lace (Great-Grand Dam). Locket has a medium to large frame with perfect conformation and a very upright, proud carriage. Her substance of bone is very good, and she has a nice head and good leg coverage. Her fleece is very fine, very uniform, and has a good crimp structure and has a wonderful hand to it, with very good brightness.

Harmony is a son of Aussie .38 Special, who really needs no introduction to anyone with even a passing interest in gray alpacas. He is a 15x Champion, 2x Judge's Choice, Herdsire of the Year; at the age of eight, he won the “Spirit of the Industry” recognizing the lasting quality of his fleece. Far more importantly, he imparts his bone, conformation, and elite fleece traits of extreme fineness, uniformity, density, high-frequency/high-amp crimp, and staple length to his offspring. This is especially incredible given that all of these awesome traits very rarely all go together, and .38 gives them to his get with amazing reliability. Harmony is not merely “any” .38 son, however. He is out of a daughter of Rincon Cloud, one of the other most pre-potent gray herdsires in North America. Rincon's Magnolia is one of Rincon Cloud's absolute best, a stunning, full Chilean solid silver tuxedo gray out of a truly true black dam. She has had two previous daughters, both of whom inherited impeccable conformation, perfect type, and beautiful fleece. So, I had a sense that the combination of .38 Special over a Rincon daughter would produce something good, but this male has not only exceeded my expectations; he has caused me to restructure my entire breeding program. Harmony inherited the bone of his sire along with the compact size of his dam sire, resulting in a perfectly proportioned, perfectly sized animal. His conformation is positively faultless. He inherited the awesome full fiber coverage of both parents, and a head that is the most ideal I have seen on a .38 offspring. Then, there is the not small matter of his fleece. Harmony's fleece completely redefined how I think of gray alpaca fleece. It is not just great. It is elite, and I reserve that word for only the most indisputably awesome alpaca fleeces. I am a fineness fanatic, and this fleece is fine, and fantastically uniform. These traits combine with an excellent brightness to produce a wonderfully soft hand, but it doesn't stop there. My photographs of this fleece do it no justice, because his crimp is so tight – that extreme combination of high-frequency and high-amplitude that feels springy when pulled. Incredibly, his staple is excellent, and I say “incredibly” because it is extremely rare for a fine, high-frequency fleece to have such an amazing staple. Add a terrific density that can be appreciated even on the animal, and this is one seriously elite fleece. His biopsy results confirm that he is, also, one of the densest grey alpacas yet tested ... Cool, huh? (Results under "Histogram.") I am positively honored to own this male. He has begun his breeding career with GREAT enthusiasm -- keep an eye out for his cria in 2018.