Fox is going on 17 and acts like he's 10. If you want better fineness EPDs and uniform, fine, pigmented gray fleeces with lots of crimps per inch and essentially no guard hair, he's the one! This line produces lingering 13 to 19 micron pigmented gray fleeces...consistently. Fox's first five fleeces were combined into one lot to make yarn at Heart and Soul and they commented on the uniformity of the lot. Thanks to his sire, Royal Bronze, Fox is a master at overall uniformity, removing guard hair and fining down fleeces and adding more crimps per inch, good staple length, along with deep and vivid colors. He's a SILVER GRAY, SNOWMASS BRED, AOBA NATIONAL COMPOSITE CHAMPION and well proven to produce healthy, correct, typey progeny! He is highly ranked for other traits too. He virtually removes all guard hair, including belly and bib. We attribute this amazing ability to his sire, Snowmass Royal Bronze, who is recognized by Julie Skinner as having recognized as having strong vicuna traits. Density? He has royal fine daughters (see Dream Catcher) with 4+ pound tui blankets and SDs in the 3s. Character? Gray daughter, Mellona, is 14.5 afd, 3.5 cv; 59 curve (not a typo) @ 21 mos. and then a 63 curve the next year! Uniformity? Hardly anything to skirt out of his progeny's fleeces. Offspring have very consistent, uniform and high yielding fleeces...Little to no skirting is needed for these big blanket fleeces. Primary and secondary fibers are very similar, even across colors in the gray fleeces, most of which are pigmented silver grays. In every offspring you will see higher frequency & amplitude crimp. ZERO to minimal guard hair...no matter the dam or color of the cria. You'll likely never see any guard hair on the belly of a Fox offspring. Soundness and health, correct phenotype, conformation and movement. Even dispositions and very intelligent...and even a few silly personalities. Certified Sorted graded Fox's 3 y.o. champion for "WORSTED applications". No W, LF or MF crias and no blue eyes. -Gray dtr, Kristiana (sold at AOBA auction): EPDs 2% fineness and placed: RC, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th; bought her back in 2024. -Gray son (Irish Meadows) - 1st Futurity. -Black dtr. (Irish Meadows) produced a black Champion son by Jacob Black. -Gray dtr. Rayna (Sold to Dusk Till Dawn Alpacas at AOBA auction for $16k)- 1st @ Alpacapalooza 2012; RC/2nd GMAF. -Gray dtr. Silver Truffles - Purchased by Alpaca Country Estates. Other grandkids are winning ribbons too.

Sadly, that 2017 gray F cria was killed by a predator. From the looks of it, probably a large bird of prey who perhaps thought she was a big rodent (being gray). This was our first predator loss in 20+ years. Glory is a stunning hembra with textbook phenotype and she's a fleece machine! GG's dam line was one of Moonshadow's most successful lines. GG's pedigree contains the famous Accoyo / Allianza cross. She is a stunning hembra with a huge volume of wonderfully crimpy, bright, silky soft, fine and long fleece. She is the calmest, sweetest girl and very easy to handle. She produced a bright, long and crimpy five pound blanket fleece in 2016! She's another gorgeous offspring from Snowmass Golden Victory who consistently stamps his quality, density and type on his progeny. Her dam, Knock Out, is an Evander daughter. Knock Out has consistently produced gorgeous show winning cria and we know Golden Glory is one of her best yet! Golden Glory's pedigree is packed with some of the best proven genetics you can ask for, beyond her outstanding parents, she also has Legacy Gold, Royal Rose, PPPeruvian Edelweis, Legacy, Chaccu and Evander behind her, with very strong maternal and paternal lines in every generation!