This Mr. Butterscotch son hails from the wildly spotted Magnifico appaloosa line. Mr. Butterscotch his sire is sadly recently deceased. Oolong has had an incredible start to his breeding career, he has had several gorgeous harliquins a wildly spotted appaloosa and one modern silver gray cria! Olly as we call him has a very sweet disposition with beautiful soft, crimpy, dence fiber and passes these traits to his cria.

Whisper is a beautiful example of that very rare coloring that stands as one of my absolute favorite alpaca colors of all: the solid silver harlequin. The source of Whisper's harlequin gene will be no mystery to any harlequin appaloosa breeder to review her pedigree. Her grandsire is none other than EL R Peruvian Luciano, one of the greatest sons of Peruvian Platinum and well-known harlequin appaloosa producer. The rest of Whisper's pedigree is an interesting blend of renowned light and grey alpaca genetics. Her sire's dam is sired by Accoyo Grand Master and out of Peruvian Heidi, the dam of well-known herdsire Peruvian Challenger. Her dam line goes back to Peruvian Felix -- a full Accoyo import sire whose name appears not infrequently in harlequin pedigrees -- and Loganberry Von TR, ancestor of Silver Legend and Legend's Challenger of KPR. Whisper was originally brought into our program for two reasons. The first is her very unique, and very rare, coloration. Having started life light fawn, Whisper sheared out silver grey at her first shearing, making her a solid harlequin. This solid harlequin coloring is one of the most unusual manifestations of the harlequin appaloosa gene, as well as one of the only genetic pathways to completely solid grey alpacas. (Whisper does have a couple of small spots on her face, a trademark of the harlequin gene.) The other reason that I wanted to bring Whisper here was her incredible staple length. Her cria fleece had a staple of >7", while her second year staple was 5.5". As breeders select for extreme fineness and uniformity -- as our program does -- staple lengths often tend to shorten, making those animals with the genetics for long staple length valuable additions. Although Whisper's fleece is not extreme in fineness, she has a soft handle, and her fleece should make stunning yarn. In addition to her color and fleece traits, Whisper is an excellent foundation female in her physical traits as well. Her conformation is flawless. She has a beautiful head with a shapely muzzle and full topknot, and her coverage is very good. She has very good substance of bone and nice proportions. With her excellent phenotypic traits and valued Peruvian Platinum genetics, Whisper is an exciting addition to our foundation.