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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Silver is a grey female with grey/black genetics that is proven to produce grey crias. She has soft handle with consistent micron and crimp style across her blanket. Even her 7th fleece spun into a lovely even-colored, lofty, soft next-to-skin yarn that maked beautiful accessories. Proven Dam of Grey! Consistently produces *grey* crias that have often sold as weanlings: • MSG female by Emerald Farm’s Rincon Cloud (sold & breeding elsewhere) • DSG male by Silver Peruvian Master Piece - very fine, silky fiber (died). • DSG male by Black Maelstrom with to-die-for looks (sold as a juvie) • DSG female by Royal Steel that is very fine & dense, with a silky fiber (NFS) • MSG male by Major General w/ typey classic tuxedo grey looks! (FS) Silver has: • Genetic Diversity from the Overused Grey and Black Genetics. • Calm and Friendly -- an ‘Easy Keeper’. • Consistent Grey Coloration w/Minimal Spotting. • Uniform character and micron, good density, wonderful handle and loft when spun. • Well covered, dark eyes, nice wedge face and ears. • Solid bones, good frame and straight conformation, and moves easily. • Little change in micron and uniformity as she aged (esp. for a grey). Her 2022 boy has a beautiful, even silver grey coloration. She is bred this year to our Quixotic male Majestic's Trouble for another beautiful grey cria, for sure! She is a great mom and should be able to breed, since she had a cria in 2022 but is being sold unbred / without a breeding. As a proven dam, she is sold without warranties.