At Autumn Sun Alpacas, we know that is no secret that this true black herdsire is an all-around package that you will want to cover any dam, light or dark colored! Secret is a black that had no fading at his tips or interspersed white fibers when he was showing (he's getting a few 'old man' white hairs now). This isn't surprising with a lineage that includes notable black sires like Othello, recently deceased, and Snowmass Nova's Dark Quest. With his distinctive head and leg coverage, along with his inky black fiber, many stopped and stared at Secret the ring. And worthy of that attention, his fiber has extreme density, bright shine, bundled crimp, and soft handle. These are traits that you want to add or amplify in your breeding program! This is obvious in the 10x champion true black son, AutumnSun's Black Maelstrom. We were fortunate to have had our program benefit from such an exceptional offspring, especially as he was just one of only a few we have performed to Secret! We have the fortune of several excellent herdsires, including grey and black, so Secret has had to be patient. And, Maelstrom is just as a precocious stud just as his sire, as both started breeding under 2 years old. Father and son both breed black well into our program. As our Secret is getting up there in years and we we don't want to overtax him (he is still breeding for us), we are closing him to outside breedings.

From the Hannahruh lineage, Genny has as great potential to produce grey or spotting. She has proven herself to be an excellent mom and produces beautiful fiber on her crias. Her first cria by Orionn was a white / spotted male that had fantastic fiber. Due to lack of documentation when we bought him at her side, we never were able to show him, but can attest that his fiber stayed fine, shiny, and crimpy well into his maturity as he produced fiber for our farm. Genny's next cria, when bred back to Orionn, was a fantastic color copy of her, as she pushed dark coloration over the service sire's white! This male, Spindrifter, went on to be a herdsire at another farm. Running with her propensity to produce dark coloration, we pushed her genetics with our black male, Dark Secret, and Genesis produced a very nice black female named Gin Fizz. Her 2022 cria for us is sired by our Major General, and is a classic silver grey male we named Graphite. He has a soft handling fleece with a nice shine as his crimp starts to come in. Genny is being sold as unbred though last year she did have a cria and should be able to if you wanted to breed her!