Kit Carson has once again returned to CA for the winter/spring and can't wait to meet your girls! We're so excited to have him back and are looking forward to showing his youngsters at the Gold Country Gathering this fall! Recently at the 2021 Gold Country Gathering, our first show in two years, son MHAR Aurelio Carson won RC in Walking Fleece! Judge Cheryl Gehly comment on his fineness, uniformity across primaries/secondaries and lack of guard hair! Check out his 2020 cria fleece (6 months). The photo doesn't do it justice as it rivals dad's for brightness and character! 2019 saw daughter Ebonni Carson win CC in walking fleece (TB) at the Gold Country Gathering under Wini Labrecque! We're so in love with all his cria, but this one is truly special:) The first thing we noticed about his cria is the outstanding vigor, and once dry the brightness of the fleece! And the fleece character is no slouch either. As the cria have grown, we're seeing excellent early density and crimp, glowing brightness, and yummy softness/hand. Oh and the depth of color! Check out the pix of some of our first cria in all their dusty glory. Oh and let's not forget personality... these cria are among the most laid back and easiest to train that we have produced! KC took his first championship at 8 months of age. Since then, his fleece has maintained its length and fineness and he remains one of the best grey males in the country. His production has not disappointed with multiple championships among his offspring. To date we've counted at least 18 of his offspring have won RCC or Color Championships! Among the most recent are RR Crawford, RR Lancelot, 4-Sight's Centerfold, MHAR's Ebonni Carson and MHAR Aurelio Carson. If you have a look at his Watt follicle testing results, the reasons will be obvious. The mix of black and white fibers in his grey is homogeneous in micron. He is the only alpaca, male or female, that carries the best characteristics of the Snowmass Peruvian Casanova and Guns n Roses lines. His follicle density testing by Ian Watt is outstanding at 2 years of age: Density: 57.9/mm2 Secondary: Primary fiber ratio: 9.8:1 In-skin primary fiber diameter: 22.3 micron SD 3.2 In-skin secondary fiber diameter: 13.7 micron SD 2.5 Comments: "High density coupled with an excellent set of numbers for the secondary fiber population give this male potential as a significant sire in .... a group not known for its uniformity within each fiber population. This is a significant animal for silver grey alpacas, where the black fibers tend to be very strong in micron and vary across the staple in most alpacas of this colour.

We love the color and hand of Tosca's fleece! It's an extra dark chocolate color and lovely feel that hand spinners crave! It's very dense and uniform, and has great handle, even at her age. Tosca has excellent conformation on a compact frame. For her first cria, we bred her to our light silver grey herdsire, Amego. They gave us a dark bown boy with stricking facial and neck markings! The lightening strike appearance on both the neck and face tempted us to name him Harry Potter! But after looking at his fleece, we thought he was deserving of a more distinguished name. Lorenzo has extremely bright, extemely dense, dark brown fleece with a bold crimp! In the hope of producing a cria with finer fiber & dark or black color, we bred Tosca to our black herdsire, Midnight Prelude (Knight). Both have extreme density and great conformation. Check out their pretty black female! In keeping with Tosca's "opera" name, we have named her cria Cosi Fan Tutti. We hope you enjoy the fun! For her 2016 Cria, we bred Tosca to our grey herdsire, Duke. And Viola we got a pretty black girl! In the hope of another black or, better yet, gray with amazing fineness and density we've bred Tosca to our newest herdsire Kit Carson. She sells with our 30 day Live Cria Guarantee and a free breed back to any unrestricted Menagerie Hill Ranch owned Herdsire. That's a three in one package!