PATAGONIA'S EL CANTO DE CHILE: El Canto de Chile means Chilean song, and with impressive genes like these, we are certainly singing this magnificent male’s praises. El Canto is a magnificent looking stud with his proud stance, gorgeous head, perfect bite, even topline, long staple length, and incredible leg coverage. Once you look closer, opening up the fleece you reveal a lovely crimpy fleece that is soft and buttery, maintaining consistency and uniformity in micron and color. El Canto’s grandsire is Patagonia’s Lennox, the best-known Patagonia herdsire with nearly 300 cria on the ground and having the most Color Champion offspring of any Patagonia sires. His sire is Judge's Choice and 8-time Champion, Patagonia's Ernesto. No wonder this son is as outstanding as he is. El Canto’s dam is the 4x Champion and 17 ribbon winner (including 7x Produce of Dam), Patagonia’s Ingenue, who is our Patagonia matriarch. El Canto de Chile has exceptional progeny on the ground stamping out an amazing head, fine fleece, density, long staple length, consistency of micron, and more. You name it, his crias have it! Patagonia’s El Canto de Chile won FIVE Championship banners and many Blue Ribbons during his show career: Color Champion, 2013 Alpacapalooza Color Champion & 1st Place, 2012 Northwest Alpaca Showcase Reserve Color Champion & 1st Place, 2014 IAO Reserve Color Champion & 1st Place, 2013 GWAS Reserve Color Champion & 1st Place, 2012 Alpacapalooza Check Out A Few of El Canto's Award-Winning Progeny! * ESTATES SIZLIN SAVANNAH - MF Female born 10/29/14 1st Place, 2015 Northwest Alpaca Showcase 1st Place, 2015 West Coast Alpaca Show 3rd Place, 2016 The Futurity * ESTATES OLIVER TWIST - TB Male born 4/16/15 Reserve Champion, 2015 Northwest Alpaca Showcase 1st Place, 2015 Northwest Alpaca Showcase 2nd Place, West Coast Alpaca Show 2015 3rd Place, 2016 Alpacapalooza 2016 * ESTATES CASCADE LOCKS - LB Female born 6/14/15 2nd Place, 2016 AOA National Show

Congratulations and thank you to Dianna Herschend of Olympic Ranch for her purchase of NPA Sydney and her 2021 male cria! North Plains Alpacas Peruvian Sydney is an excellent example of success in strategic breeding! We set out to breed Sydney’s fawn dam, Aconcagua to one of the “finest” dark males we could find, BMF Taos’ Zeppelin (owned by Delphi Alpacas). He is a male with extraordinary fleece qualities, consistent, low microns, low CV’s, and an impressive “zipper” style crimp character. Zeppelin may be a bay black, but it wasn’t the dark color that we were breeding for, it was fleece! Fleece! Fleece! Pedigree is an added bonus with Sydney as she comes from a line of well-known herdsires such as, Accoyo Legacy, El Moustachio, Peruvian Midnight Express, Caligula, Kilimanjaro, and Drambuie. A quality packed pedigree, beautiful fine fleece, along with natural good looks! Offspring: On 6/30/14, Sydney gave us ESTATES SILVER SIMONE, a beautiful MSG female sired by our Silverado's Peruvian Silver Fox. Estates Silver Simone started her show career in 2015 and is a multiple blue-ribbon winner (2017 Autumn Fleece Challenge, 2016 Heart of Virginia Alpaca Show, 2015 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular, 2015 OABA Alpacafest, and 2016 Heart of Virginia Alpaca Show)! On 6/25/15, Sydney gave birth to ESTATES SUGAR PIE, a lovely beige female sired by our light fawn multi-champion herdsire, Patagonia's El Canto de Chile. On 9/14/16, Sydney gave us LAST MASTERPIECE OF COUNTRY ESTATES, a good-looking MSG male sired by Silverado's Peruvian Silver Fox. On 7/8/17, Sydney presented us with ESTATES SNOWY OWL HEDWIG, a handsome MSG male sired by Estates Gray Beard, our beautiful-fleeced male with the sought-after Aussie .38 Special genetics. On 9/13/19, Sydney gave birth to ESTATES TITAN'S EBONY BEAUTY, a pretty true black female sired by Estates Silver Titan, our wonderful medium silver-grey Color Champion out of Neversummer's US Steel. On 9/21/20, Sydney gave us ESTATES PERSEVERANCE, a wonderful white male sired by 8x Champion Estates Legendary Picasso. Estates Perseverance won a Blue Ribbon at the 2024 Houston Show: Halter. He also receive a 2nd Place ribbon for walking fleece and a 3rd Place ribbon for fleece at the 2024 Houston Show! On 10/4/21, Sydney gave birth to a nice-looking beige male also sired by our multi-champion Estates Legendary Picasso.