RC '16 AOA Fleece, CC '17 AOA Halter Maelstrom is a 13x champion, the 2016 AOA National Fleece Black Reserve Champion, and 2017 AOA National Halter Black Male Color Champion. His first fleece was measured in 2015 to be 18.81 AFD / 3.62 SD / 19.2% CoV. To bring home his banners, he combined awesome shiny, fine and uniform handle with tight crimp from his dam with Secret's inky-black similarly crimpy, shiny, and consistent fiber. Though both dam and sire have great coverage, Mael's head is credited to his sire's beautiful headstyle that cannot help but catch the eye. He is well conformed and balanced in his frame. Maelstrom has a lineage filled with champion banners, exceptional lineage, and black genetics. In Maelstrom, you have a list of "who's who" merging into a TRUE BLACK 7/8 Peruvian cornerstone herdsire. Maelstrom is the progeny of our multiple champion black herdsire Wolf Den's Dark Secret, who is the optimal result of the pairing of Dark Quest crossed with Othello bloodlines. His paternal grandsire is the well known Snowmass Nova's Dark Quest, son of the famous Snowmass Nova, son of Snowmass Peruvian Casanova. He is out of our lovely Fossil Ridge's Special K, a 7x champion fawn dam hailing from the multiple Champion Rumaki, a Royal Fawn son with the bloodlines of Presido and Felix. His crias have been stunning! Maelstrom's cria coloration to date is 88% black (TB or BB) from a black dam and 100% on our farm by dams whose pedigrees are known to produce black and/or are loaded in black. He has been bred to both black (49%) and non-black (51%) dams. When bred to the lighter colored dams (white, beige, light fawn) he produced crias darker than their dams 60% of the time, even some black crias! When his progeny have been bred to black, 100% of the descendants have been black. More than of one of his crias born to dams at our clients' farms have been described as "blue-black" in their owners glowing compliments.

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Maelstrom is closed to outside breedings. He is not available for sale unless with the purchase of entire herd; in that event, no breedings will be allowed until he is paid off in full.

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Starshire’s Aoife (pronounced EE-fa -- a great Celtic name for a girl born on St. Patrick’s day) is a well grown dam with solid bones, strong conformation, a beautiful headstyle and coverage with a lovely fine fleece, soft handle and amazing fiber stats at 16.4 AFD! Her dam, HRF Caryzma, is one of Starshire's reported best dams that produces show quality, ribbon winning, beautiful alpacas. Aoife’s maternal grandsire is 21x Champion Peruvian Challenger. Her sire is Snowmass Golden Chaccu, a Snowmass Black Out son and a Snowmass Matrix grandson. Aoife clearly has a lineage worthy of an excellent service sire... luckily we have a few available! For her first breeding, we paired here with grey champion, Dauntless in attempt to capitalize on her heritage and modern grey fiber. Her fawn male, Jasper, is really shaping up to be a fantastic male -- nicely sized with excellent conformation, and sporting a fleece filled with crimpy, shiny, soft fiber. Despite not being the requested grey coloration, he is a nice male that can be a good herdsire for another farm. She has given us a true black girl by our Black Maelstrom that we named Maeve (pronounced May-v), who is staying on our farm, and then this year a light fawn girl by our modern rose grey Magistrate that we named Siobhan (prounanced shaw-vawn) that is on our sales list only because we are downsizing and so will only keep one Aoife girl. Both girls are very fine and shiny with nice crimp. Aoife is ultrasound-confirmed bred to our Major General who has made impressively solid boned, well grown blacks and greys for us.

This male is rooted to the ground. In his maturity, you cannot see his toes in his tree trunk legs with massive coverage on heavy bones. This frame is extremely solid, well conformed, and easy moving. His crimp is still popping and consistent across his blanket. His micron is moving out as he works in our breeding program but his handle and staple are still great! All this fleece and body 'goodness' is topped with a sweet, calm, just-the-facts-m'am personality that makes him an awesome herdsire.... And, then take a look at the fiber of his offspring! This poor boy didn't get enough love, figuratively and literally, on our farm. Though very nice, we always have so many good males that we keep on our relatively small farm and with our lean towards dark coloration, he often was left off the dance cards of the ladies. We LOVED his boy Superluminal, so we repeated this breeding for another beige-white offspring but this time a GIRL!!! Imagine my excitement. Her name is Vanora and YES I am planning on breeding her to our BLACK herdsires once I get our genotype results to pick the best one. And, then, we can breed her to one of our brown, roan or fawn herdsires. The sky's the limit when you have nice white fiber and will accept any color offspring! We also have him bred to our champion Provenance, who has produced beautifully fine, richly golden fawn offspring albeit males (boo). When they were weanlings, I KNEW they would pair nicely together and desperately wanted to complete that breeding. Now that I have, we have Supermassive available for sale simply because we are moving to all dark and closed farm so he would continue to not have enough work. So, we hope you will consider what he can do for you when paired right, because at this price he is a steal of a deal!