Congratulations and thank you to Brian Smith & Valerie Reiser, of Plum Creek Alpacas, for their purchase of Patagonia's Chief! PATAGONIA'S CHIEF Patagonia’s Chief, a true black top-sire on our ranch. Not only is he a champion, Chief is a proven Champion producer as well. He adds lots of density and staple length to his progeny, not to mention fineness, handsome typey head, and substance of bone. Chief's crias so far have had beautiful structure and uniformity, retained fineness, and consistency within their fiber. Depending upon the color of the dam, he has produced true black, bay black, silver grey, rose grey, brown & fawn offspring. Patagonia’s Chief is the son of of the legendary Patagonia's Lennox, who has countless ribbons, and is a 14x Get of Sire winner, including 3 Get-of-Sire Blue Ribbons! (Not to mention, he’s also the sire of Ernesto, our 7-time champion and Judge’s Choice ACE stud!) Chief's paternal grandsire is Danko 532, a multiple award-winning Grey champion stud from Alpacas de la Patagonia who is well-known in the alpaca world for throwing champions of all colors, especially grey and black (including many AOBA Champions). His dam, Patagonia’s Allegra won the Brown Color Championship banner for fleece at the 2008 AOBA National Show. Allegra also received 12 other ribbons, including Produce of Dam, two first place ribbons at AOBA, first place at MAPACA, and a second place ribbon at The Futurity. On top of that, Chief's maternal grandsire, Nishio was the 2004 All-American Herdsire of the Year and the 2007 Reserve All-American Herdsire of the Year! A SAMPLE OF PATAGONIA'S CHIEF'S AWARD WINNING PROGENY INCLUDE: ** PATAGONIA'S TWILIGHT - MRG Female 9/17/12 (Supreme Champion & Color Champion with Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** ESTATES CHIEF BLACK HAWK - TB Male 7/6/2019 (Color Champion, 2020 CABO) ** PATAGONIA'S DUSTY - DRG Female 9/20/12 (Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** STARSHIRE'S VICENTE - TB Male 7/20/14 (Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** ESTATES MANHATTAN - TB Male 7/11/15 (Res. Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** PATAGONIA'S ELYSA - MF Female 7/16/12 (Res. Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** PATAGONIA'S SANSON - MB Male 7/16/12 (Res. Color Champion & Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** ALEUTIAN EAGLE'S CARMELLA - DF Female 8/9/12 (Res. Color Champion & 2nd) ** STARSHIRE'S CONNERY - TB Male 8/21/14 (Multiple Blue Ribbons) ** SENTINEL'S ARROW - DRG Male 8/1/13 (Blue Ribbon) ** PATAGONIA'S LA ROSITA - LSG Female 6/22/13 (Blue Ribbon) ** MIRRIN OF STARSHIRE - TB Female 6/26/14 (Blue Ribbon)

Congratulations and thank you to Kat Bouzos, of Bouzos Farms, for her purchase of Macayla! MACAYLA Macayla is a real sweetheart. Her sire is Nova’s Black Knight III, the 2004 Futurity Reserve Champion and son of the legendary true black Snowmass Nova. Black Knight placed above 4 other Snowmass Nova sons at the 2004 Futurity, all of whom had placed at the top of their classes. He has superfine, dense, uniform, bundled black fiber – his first two shearings both had an AFD of less than 20 microns. Her dam, Matalyn, is a Peruvian Matador daughter. Offspring: On 6/3/2011, Macayla presented us with a beautiful TB female, sired by Snowmass Andean Midnight. Estates Keiko Matsui Reserve Champion and a 2nd Place ribbon at the 2012 International Alpaca Odyssey show. She also brought home several other ribbons as part of our 2012 show string. On 6/9/2012, Macayla gave birth to a handsome TB male, also sired by Snowmass Andean Midnight. On 7/14/2014, Macayla had a lovely TB female, sired by Snowmass Royal Knight. On 6/22/2015, Macayla gave us a pretty TB female, sired by Patagonia's Enzo, On 5/1/2017, Macayla presented us with a beautiful BB female sired by Patagonia’s Chilkoot. Estates Mauna Lani won Color Champion at the 2018 California Classic Round Up, as well as several other Blue Ribbons during the 2018 show season. On 5/29/2019, Macayla gave us an adorable TB female sired by Patagonia's Chief.