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'.

* PROVEN AND BRED * GREAT MOM, EASY BREEDER, EASY KEEPER! * MOSTLY FEMALE OFFSPRING TO-DATE * ROAN COLORATION * CHAMPION SIRE WHO MAKES SPOTS * SERVICE SIRE CLASSIC GREY SON OF CHAMPION Bliss has softness of hand, uniformity, well grown frame and conformation of a fantastic foundation dam as she matures. Taking after her own dam, she become a roan grey at 2 years old with consistent white fibers throughout her blanket. As a yearling, she had white fibers (before modern grey, and now roan, classes were common), and so showed as a dark indefinite in Bred & Owned, where darks, greys, and ID are grouped together. At her first show, with only 4 months of fiber growth, Bliss was described by the judge as balanced, with good uniformity in micron and expression of organization throughout the staple and across the blanket, and a lovely handle. In production, Bliss was an excellent mom to her first cria, a dark modern rose grey (roan) male by Red Granite's Mr. Ben Franklin, named Ragnarok, who has gone to another farm. She continued to be an excellent dam to her roan grey girl, Serenity, sired by our multiple champion Smokejumper, who bore lasting fineness. Serenity joined our breeding program to carry on Jumper's fantastic fiber genetics, as he has died early from an accident, passing her fine & uniform genetics on to her two girls, Inara Serra and Perfect Harmony. We bred Serentiy to Truthsayer for a repeat of Harmony, and Harmony bred to our Major to explore her spotted/classic genetics. Bred to our grey champion, Truthsayer, Bliss made us the lovely AutumnSun's Clairvoyance, a LF (roan really, as 'fawn grey') with wonderful fiber style. Genetic typing shows she is a dilute black, 'ee aa'. Clair is one that should be able to breed into a black or grey program, which we have exercised by breeding her to our rose grey champion stud AutumnSun's Artorius. Bliss' next dark roan girl (see a trend in girl offspring?) was sired by our multiple champion classic grey, Dauntless, that we named Serendipity Smiles. Serendipity was bred to our well-pedigreed dark roan, Magistrate, to produce a lovely dark roan, AutumnSun's Joie de Vivre. Greys and roans abound! Not to stop there, we have bred Bliss back to grey, this time a classic grey -- AutumnSun's Reposado, son of champion rose grey and our other matriarchal grey line via our AutumnSun's Loreleigh (which brings in great greys, Enlightenment, Avatar, and Addonis). Bred to LRG Reposado, Bliss surprised us with a LB male -- though he could be a light modern rose grey given time to fully express his coloration. SOLD! Congratulations to Kim and Robert Brandsma of Sugar Pike Alpacas!

AutumnSun's Artorius is fantastic male, not surprising as he is sired by multiple champion Red Granite's Royal Brutus out of our Bea-2 Bomber daughter AutumnSun's Merida. He looks so much like his sire that he sometimes is mistakeningly called by that name on our farm. He is incredibly dense, long stapled, and organized into zipper crimp. As he has gotten older, his fiber continues to impress us. In his 3 year old class at the 2023 AOA National Halter Show, the first place went on to be champion. But the judge said to the audience of Artorius that he had a beautiful fleece and to put your hands on him to see an example of what zipper crimp should look like! This fleece went on to win Reserve Champion in the Grey males at the 2023 AOA National Fleece Show!