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 Sonoma Lavender Bnb Farm for their purchase of Patagonia's La Jefa! PATAGONIA'S LA JEFA La Jefa is a lovely true black female with excellent bloodlines. In 2004, she was assessed as an "A-" by Amanda VandenBosch, a Senior AOA Halter and Fleece Judge. Two of Alpaca de la Patagonia's top herdsires are in her genetic makeup - Patagonia's Neruda and Shackleton. La Jefa's sire, Patagonia's Neruda has fleece that is exotic in color and extremely fine. At 2.5 years of age, his histogram was: afd=17.4m, sd=3.6m, cv=20.5%, >30=0.7%. (If you are not familiar with Neruda, he sold for over $200,000 at the 2007 Futurity Auction). La Jefa's true black paternal grandsire, Shackleton 562, maintained a baby-fine fleece even at 9 years of age. Her dam, Hermana is an import from Chile (also from Alpaca de la Patagonia). Offspring: On 3/10/07, La Jefa gave birth to a medium brown female sired by the legendary Patagonia's Lennox. On 3/7/08, La Jefa had a light brown male sired by Patagonia's Dawson. On 6/3/09, La Jefa had a light fawn male sired by 2006 Futurity Blue-Ribbon winner, Patagonia's Ogilvie. On 8/18/10, La Jefa had Patagonia's Nisha, a lovely BB female sired by the Champion, Patagonia's Montero. On 9/20/12, La Jefa gave birth to a pretty DRG female sired by 4X Champion, Patagonia's Chief. Her daughter, Patagonia's Dusty won 1st Place & Color Champion at the 2013 Alpacapalooza show. She also won 2nd Place Ribbons from the 2013 MAPACA Jubilee, PAOBA Breeders Showcase, Empire Alpaca Extravaganza, New Jersey Alpaca Classic halter shows and the 2014 PAOBA Breeders Showcase. Dusty also received a Blue-Ribbon for performance at the 2013 New Jersey Alpaca Classic show. On 9/24/13, La Jefa gave us Patagonia's Keva, a beautiful MF female also sired by multi-champion herdsire, Patagonia’s Chief. Keva had 5 traits ranking in the Top 15% EPDs in 2022. On 6/22/18, La Jefa presented us with Estates La Jefa, a lovely BB female, again sired by Patagonia’s Chief. Estates La Jefa also had 5 traits ranking in the Top 15% EPDs in 2022.