ESTATES GRAY BEARD Gray Beard is a handsome medium silver-grey male who has luxurious fine handle, bright, long staple length consistent into his legs and underbelly. He is dense with enormous coverage on legs and body. His crimp is everywhere - head, neck, into his legs, and belly. What a joy to work with! I admire his incredible good temperament for being a proven breeder. Gray Beard’s sire is none other than 17x Color Champion and 2x Judge’s Choice Winner, Aussie .38 Special. .38 Special is known to pass on his fine traits of brightness, fineness, density, and uniformity to his offspring. Gray Beard’s dam is true black NeverSummer’s Havana Nocturne, and in our Foundation Herd. Havana and Aussie .38 Special were on Carol Collins grey breeding program. Havana is a sister to NeverSummer's Black Ice, 2008 Futurity Color Champion and International Supreme Champion. Blue Ribbon Progeny on the Ground! Gray Beard’s 2017 daughter, Estates Silver Calliope just won 1st Place at the 2018 Rockton Fair Alpaca Show! Proudly co-owned with Kathy McConnell of Hubbert Farms (Canada). Gray Beard is currently residing at Hubbert Farms in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Congratulations and thank you to Dianna Herschend of Olympic Ranch for her purchase of NPA Sydney and her 2021 male cria! North Plains Alpacas Peruvian Sydney is an excellent example of success in strategic breeding! We set out to breed Sydney’s fawn dam, Aconcagua to one of the “finest” dark males we could find, BMF Taos’ Zeppelin (owned by Delphi Alpacas). He is a male with extraordinary fleece qualities, consistent, low microns, low CV’s, and an impressive “zipper” style crimp character. Zeppelin may be a bay black, but it wasn’t the dark color that we were breeding for, it was fleece! Fleece! Fleece! Pedigree is an added bonus with Sydney as she comes from a line of well-known herdsires such as, Accoyo Legacy, El Moustachio, Peruvian Midnight Express, Caligula, Kilimanjaro, and Drambuie. A quality packed pedigree, beautiful fine fleece, along with natural good looks! Offspring: On 6/30/14, Sydney gave us ESTATES SILVER SIMONE, a beautiful MSG female sired by our Silverado's Peruvian Silver Fox. Estates Silver Simone started her show career in 2015 and is a multiple blue-ribbon winner (2017 Autumn Fleece Challenge, 2016 Heart of Virginia Alpaca Show, 2015 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular, 2015 OABA Alpacafest, and 2016 Heart of Virginia Alpaca Show)! On 6/25/15, Sydney gave birth to ESTATES SUGAR PIE, a lovely beige female sired by our light fawn multi-champion herdsire, Patagonia's El Canto de Chile. On 9/14/16, Sydney gave us LAST MASTERPIECE OF COUNTRY ESTATES, a good-looking MSG male sired by Silverado's Peruvian Silver Fox. On 7/8/17, Sydney presented us with ESTATES SNOWY OWL HEDWIG, a handsome MSG male sired by Estates Gray Beard, our beautiful-fleeced male with the sought-after Aussie .38 Special genetics. On 9/13/19, Sydney gave birth to ESTATES TITAN'S EBONY BEAUTY, a pretty true black female sired by Estates Silver Titan, our wonderful medium silver-grey Color Champion out of Neversummer's US Steel. On 9/21/20, Sydney gave us ESTATES PERSEVERANCE, a wonderful white male sired by 8x Champion Estates Legendary Picasso. Estates Perseverance won a Blue Ribbon at the 2024 Houston Show: Halter. He also receive a 2nd Place ribbon for walking fleece and a 3rd Place ribbon for fleece at the 2024 Houston Show! On 10/4/21, Sydney gave birth to a nice-looking beige male also sired by our multi-champion Estates Legendary Picasso.