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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Lark is a proven dam whose lineage and progeny speaks volumes for her. Your eye catches her quiet grace, free movement, and well-balanced frame decorated by her excellent coverage of black fleece. Along with her dark looks and boxy conformation, she offers crimpy fiber with great density, shine and handle to her crias. Lark's first born -- AutumnSun's Canyon Wren -- is a lovely medium brown girl sired by Annual's Bea-2 Bomber, 3X AOA champion & overall 9X champion light rose grey son of the invincible Aussie .38 Special. This vigorous girl has her dam's spot-on conformation and stately beauty adorned with a long and crimpy fleece. Lark is loaded with grey and black lineages. Her dam, Mystery, is true black dam with grey genetics out of Crescent Moon's Raylina, a medium rose grey champion producing champions. Skyline Alpacas (known for their grey & black program) says of this dam: "Raylina produces what we believe to be the "Premier Seed Stock" that we are striving for...." Mystery's medium silver grey sire, ATV Silver Magnum, is a grey champion son of Mr. Roosevelt as well as the sire of champion ATV Silver Elation, himself a sire of champions. With this parentage, it clear that Lark has the genetics to be an excellent dam in either or both a black and grey program. Lark was then bred to our true black 13x champion AutumnSun's Black Maelstrom to produce Starling who was sold in the 2019 Futurity auction. In 2019, Lark gave us a beautiful rich brown male by our herdsire Axios that has extremely nice fleece. He is Shakespeare. This boy doesn't sell at her side but can be negotiated separately. This year we repeated that breeding and got just what we wanted, a full sister to Shakespeare that looks just like him! Beautiful!