Awakening is co-owned with Brenda Weber of BlueRidge Alpaca Ranch outside of La Crosse, WI. We are thrilled to have Michelangelo's Awakening. He is a show champion and an established sire of champion off-spring. Usually he produces the color of the dam, especially for grey (his dam was grey). His crias are outstanding - fine and dense. Silver Sistine, Sooper Trooper and Tokyo Smoke (at Blue Ridge Alpacas) have brought home blue, purple, and orange ribbons. Come see them and make your decision for your next breedings. You won't be disappointed. Show winnings and Judges comments about Awakening: At Minnesota Alpaca Expo 2014: 1st place out of a class of 8 dark brown juvie males and a Reserve Championship. Judge Peter Kennedy comments, “At 7 months of age he is beautifully grown, very balanced showing a great level of maturity. He is extremely fine, very well organized, beautiful level of brightness with the level of organization, very uniform in his micron. Beautiful softness of hand, a great deal of density overall.” At AOA Nationals 2014: 1st Place out of a class of 9 dark brown juvenile males. Judge Diana Timmerman comments, "He has a super fine fleece, it has incredible brightness and is very well nourished. It shows excellent architecture throughout and the character extends the length of the staple, it is also evident all the way through and all those characteristics give him great density." At Railsplitter 2014: 1st place out of a class of 6 brown juvenile males and the Color Championship for brown males. Judge Peter Kennedy commentts, “Showing a great level of maturity for his age with a beautiful level of coverage. Very true to type. The fleece is extremely fine showing excellent amplitude with his high frequency crimp style through his entire blanket and everywhere I looked it was all the same. Very well organized and great density. It is opening up very cleanly and is very bright, with a beautiful soft hand.”

Velvet is a true daughter of Victor's Vaccoyo, well known full Accoyo sire who consistently transmitted his phenomenal fleece characteristics of deep bold crimp and extreme density to his offspring. Velvet has that - unbelievable density and good staple length, even at her age. However, lacking in fineness. She is very easy to handle (our 10 year old son holds her w/o a halter when we clip toe nails). To offset this, Velvet was bred to multi-champion Michelangelo's Awakening, an El Nino grandson, for a late 2019 cria. As a 5 year old "working" male, his fleece is extremely soft. Awakening's crias are bringing home BLUE, PURPLE, and ORANGE ribbons. Velvet delivered a super curly, super energetic dark fawn boy (Velluto) August 2019. Might be our best one of 2019. Velvet + Awakening did not disappoint again. A large, white girl (Vanellope) born end of May 2021. Velvet comes with a breeding. Go with Awakening again or try Campion (he has fiber diameter EPD in the top 1%!!). Or, maybe try for black with Rappa?