A spectacular result from the pairing of K with the exceptional Avalon's Jacob Black. The genetics here are amazing. We were pleased in his grey coloration with the genetics of this pairing. This male has one of the finest fleeces of all crias ever born on our farm. It has beautiful crimp and organization, shine and staple. As he matures we expect that he will show off is fleece wonderfully in the ring. And for spinning -- it is hands-down amazing to the touch! Truthsayer's first cria, a beautiful DRG girl out of Merida, has gone on to win the grey female COLOR CHAMPION in the 2021 AOA National Fleece Show -- with her tui tips and all her vegetative matter from being uncoated. So excited that the judge saw her worth past all of that 'noise'.

We hesitate to sell her because she is one of only three dams by our multiple champion/ judge's choice Smokejumper. If not for our need to reduce herd size we would keep her for our grey program, and I am sure we will have some regret selling our Jumper girl. He was still winning banners for his fleece at 5-6 years old (he even beat our many time champion Stradivarius once), so shame on us for not utilizing him more in our breeding program. Jumper was the son of the rose grey foundation dam in our herd, Frosted Red Rose ('Rosie'), who was not only a champion but produced champions. Her dam is our AutumnSun's Burgundy Bliss - a dark modern grey dam born from dark brown dam that went modern as she aged and that produced classic grey when bred that way. Her roan-grey heritage runs deep. Serenity is also roan - also known as a modern rose grey -- with white fibers throughout her blanket. She is well developed on a balanced frame and excellent conformation. She is a great mother and an easy keeper that has bred, carried, birthed and nursed with no issues. Her dam's line has been strongly maternal, all good breeders with a propensity to produce girls (all been modern greys). Her granddam and great-granddam are both modern greys, so Serenity is 4th generation modern grey on her dam's side. SOLD! Congratulations to Kim and Robert Brandsma of Sugar Pike Alpacas! She just had a light brown girl by Truthsayer, Perfect Harmony. This girl is a eye-catching brown with a white face, evidencing her grey heritage. For her second cria, Serenity has given us a beautiful medium brown girl sired by our modern rose grey, Magistrate! Inara Serra is a beautiful girl. This girl seems to be going the way of grey /roan. Another perfect girl for a grey program. We love the fleece and overall look of Harmony so much that we bred Serenity back to Truthsayer for a repeat cria. She is only for sale since we are keeping Harmony but we may choose to take her off depending.... This year's cria is another girl! This one, sired by Truthsayer is a rose grey. Same face as Harmony but this one expressing her grey genetics more for evident grey across her body. If Inara sales, we may keep this girl....

We think this boy is the darkest 'silky' type we have seen! His fiber is slick and shiny that it looks and almost feels wet! Even judge Tim Lavan commented that his fiber looked almost like it was wet! He has LOTS of fiber on him, and with a really long staple so that it droops somewhat when he is at his peak length. But don't be fooled by this and think that he is not dense... he has a lot of fiber packed on him! He has white fibers in his blanket but not consistently enough to classify him as a grey in the shows. This was his initial 'hiccup' in the show ring, when they placed him in the brown classes so that he had to endure the disapproval of the judges. We attempted to show him in Bred and Owned but did not find the consistent competition at that time that we desired for him. But, we luckily become more observant of Major's several, easily discernible light spots in his blanket that classifies him as an appaloosa pattern. Shown in the right class and Major ROCKS! His fiber was finally evaluated purely on its exceptional qualities rather than on how it did not fit in the class. From the beginning in the show ring, he was hard to categorized but well appreciated. At his first show, while he was criticized for his white fibers in brown class, he also caught the judge's eye as "so shiny he looked wet". At the 2014 Futurity while showing in the combined multi class, he was brought to the Reserve Champion position, behind the Snowmass Color Champion and before the other exemplary alpacas from farms such as Crescent Moon and Marquam Hill. With the caliber of competition of this show we were proudly aware of Major's placing at the head of the pack clearly recognizing his herdsire material! We absolutely love Major for his easy personality, great looks and fantastic fiber. Being a small farm with very limited breedings each year, Major has had to elbow his way into the breeding program and hasn't had the exposure that he should have. He has darkened the color of the offspring over its dam in every case. When bred to fawns he has made a MF to DB crias. Bred to grey dams he produced grey crias 60% of the time and true black in the remaining 40%. Their fiber have all been fine with long staple and good crimp. His last two crias by fawn dams have been grouped into our show / jr. herdsire category. Since we have decided to keep his son, Gentry, in our herdsire row, Major is available at a very 'nice price' to help him move to another breeding program. He has genetics that could be used in any grey or spotted program. As we have sold Imitation, our last appaloosa dam, we no long have need for a male that could straddle the line of grey and spotted colorations and he really deserves more consideration.