Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we are thrilled to have Snowmass Touche' in our herdsire line-up. We have been looking for a long time for a males who can geneticallly and phenotypically complement our herd. We were looking for a male that we could breed to our Elite White females and to our colored production females. In essence, we were looking for a male with Elite Fleece Characteristics--especially with his combination of Density, Fineness, Brightness, and excellent staple formation. He is the PERFECT MALE to fit our needs! He is INCREDIBLY DENSE exquisitely FINE and has one of the most advanced fleeces with remarkable consistency from head to toe. And he is a compact and typey male who has correct conformation and bite. Snowmass Touche is truly one of the finest, densest, elite white fleece studs out of the Snowmass Breeding program. He was designed to go over both Elite white and Color production Dams. He has a very unique genetic line up which includes the superior line of Snowmass Maree Love --the Dam to Snowmass QUECHUA and Snowmass INVINCIBLE, Touche's Sire. The unique and white Elite element to Touche is his Dam, Snowmass Olay--she is the only Sollocota - Allianza line with her fineness in the Snowmass herd. Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we have had some of our best cria out of this male and it is no surprise when you consider his EPD's One of the characteristics that he transmits the most effectively is STRUCTURE. In addition to evaluating and validating his conformation and fleece in the show ring, we have done histograms on his fleeces every year. We also did a skin biopsy on him this spring and at 7 years of age, not only has his fleece been amazing in the past, but the current traits he is exhibiting are still remarkable. AND his EPD's demonstrate that he will consistently and reliably pass those traits on to his offspring. Tierra Prometida’s “Snowmass Touche” was biopsied as a 7 year old white huacaya male with ARI#30408753. His 15X scan demonstrates large fiber clusters very uniform in size and placement. This trait was likely passed from his dam. His density is 76.75 follicles SQ MM of skin and his average S/P ratio based on 25 fiber clusters is 12.0 to 1.

Parfait is a beautiful Hemi Accoyo Female that we are thrilled to have the opportunity to have in our herd. She exhibits perfect conformation and bite with an astoundingly fine fleece. In fact, at 9 years of age, she still has a 19 micron fleece! She has produced a gorgeous male out of Snowmass Matrix that we have named TP Matrix Jubilee. His first fleece had a 14.6 average micron! She has had a series of spectacular cria, including TP Matrix Jubilee, TP Snowmass Touche's Eclair, TP Altiplano Gold's Meringue Kiss, and TP Poseidon's Motivator's Tiramisu. Her last cria was TP Touche's Angel Wings. With a pedigree that reads like a who's who, she has been indeed a treasure. PPeruvian Victor, Sara's Sahara, Peruvian Hemingway and PPPeruvian Pastoral. She brings some uncommon and coveted genetics to our area. The cria her son, TP Matrix Jubilee is producing are spectacular with amazing fineness combined with density. Her EPD's are specatcular as is her skin biopsy. It is no wonder her cria are so nice! She is a grand dam of all grand dams. I love this girl!

TP Envy of Legend represents the whole package. He brings the consistency, density, and persistent fineness from Snowmass Elite Legend (his sire) and TP Matrix Jubilee (his grandsire). He also brings excellent staple length from Sunset Hills Secret Whisper (his grand dam) who is a Sunset Hills Zephyrus daughter. His fleece is exceptionally bright with a long, well organized staple that is consistent throughout his blanket. He has a proud stance with exceptional bone density and overall conformation. His EPD's for 2022 have 4 traits in the top 1% I am genuinely excited about what this male is bringing to our breeding program and can't wait to show his beautiful cria.