Black Multiple Champion!

Shepherds Creek's Thunder

Alpaca, Huacaya, Jr. Herdsire (Male) | True Black

Sire: Alpaca Palace Zagato's Zephrite

Judges Choice, 13x Champion

Alpaca Palace Zagato's Zephrite

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)Medium Fawn

AOA# 35460053DOB: 7/17/20186 yrs

Zephrite is an exceptional male out of multi-champion and Futurity Champion, Sunset Hill's Zagato. He has impressive upright bone structure and conformation. Very long, bright and uniform fleece. He concluded his show career with a Judges Choice, 3 championships and and 7 reserve championships. Zephrite's first crop of crias, hit the ground, Summer of 2022. They are outstanding! He is throwing all colors in his offspring including grey. Several of his crias will be in our Spring 2023 show string. Please come take a look! Zephrites offspring have taken championships in all colors including Roan. It is a very impressive line-up. His fleece continues to be fine with tons of architecture as he ages. In November 2024, Thunder owned by Shepard's Creek alpacas took all three judges choice home at the Empire Showtacular. Zephrite is now co-owned with TeaBerry Alpaca Farm in Catawba,VA. Please contact Pam Schiele if interested in breeding while he is in Virginia.

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 AOA# 35460053 Medium Fawn

Dam: Snowmass Lunar Legacy XX

Proven Champion bred to Zagato'sZephrite

Snowmass Lunar Legacy XX

HuacayaOpen (Female)Medium Fawn

AOA# 35487616DOB: 7/23/20186 yrs

In "Luna's" first 5 shows in 2019 she bannered in 4 of them! Her fiber is fabulously soft, dense and highly uniform in it's very high frequency crimp style. She is the offspring of two of Snowmass's top lines, Snowmass Lunar Love (dam) and Snowmass Lover's Legacy XX (Sire). Luna had her first cria in 2021, a gorgeous fawn female sired by Sunset Hills Zagato. After winning her first banners, Zylia was purchased by Central Hill Alpacas and has gone on to win multiple Championships for them! Luna was bred in '22 to Zagato son, Zephrite, producing a beautiful bay black male cria, Thunder! We are excited to take him to the show ring in Spring of '24. Luna is currently being bred to our StrongShepherd Apollo by Koolosal for a fall '24 cria. For more information, please give us a call!

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 AOA# 35487616 Medium Fawn

Description

Shepherds Creek’s Thunder is a 16 month old true black Jr. Herdsire who’s looking forward to starting his breeding career this Spring. His sire and dam are Alpaca Palace’s Zagato’s Zephrite and Snowmass Lunar Legacy XX, both very strong genetic lines. He began his Juvi show career in the Fall of 2023, and by the end of Spring,’24 he had earned 12 Firsts, 1 Second, 6 Color Championships, and 2 Reserve Color Championships, all in Full Fleece Halter and Walking Fleece competitions. At 8 months old he took 1st in a class of 10 at Nationals and followed it up by winning the Championship at spring Buckeye over the National Black Champion. To end his 2024 show season, Thunder just TOOK CHAMPIONSHIPS AND JUDGES CHOICE IN ALL 3 HALTER SHOWS, PLUS THE BLACK WALKING FLEECE CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE SHOWTACULAR! A feat unto itself, but for a black alpaca, this is such validation of his excellent quality. Thunder is in the top 10% EPDs for SDAFD (uniformity of micron) and for Fleece Weight. His color genotype is Ee a1a1. Consider a breeding to Thunder in 2025 at a discounted Introductory fee, or talk to us about owning him, or possibly ½ Interest in this promising true black future herdsire.

Awards

- '24 Spring Buckeye Show

- 2024 AOA Nationals (1/10)

- Carolina Alpaca Parade

- '24 Carolina Alpaca Celebration

Updated 11/17/2024