If breeders do their job right, eventually there is always a next-generation advancement that will bring something new to the table. CCNF Bataclan represents the amalgam of some of the most exciting and prepotent lines that we have ever worked with here, going back over 18 years in some cases. Bataclan's sire, 2017 Futurity Herdsire of the Year CCNF Elixir, really needs very little introduction at this point. Though Elixir has given us several excellent sons, when Bataclan first started working, he represented Elixir's first white son that had the mojo to regularly steal females off of his sire's breeding list. Consider what Elixir has meant to us over the past few years and then let the statement above sink in. Yes, Bataclan is that special. Maternally, Bataclan combines the genetics of Snowmass Sub-Zero (a Champion 6P Monarch son) and our Futurity Champion, MFI Peruvian Precocious, who is of course himself a son of the mighty Jeremiah. Just on paper alone, the pedigree is fairly drool-inducing but the specimen in person also happens to walk the walk as well. With a more compact size and build, that most closely resembles that of his Champion dam, CCNF Daliance (Snowmass Sub-Zero x CCNF Flirtatious), and a fleece that is both dense, bright, and very well organized, Bataclan is absolutely poised to be the next big thing here at his birth farm. Update - Spring of 2022: After 2+ pandemic-laden years where his offspring primarily competed only via the AOA National Fleece Show (albeit winning several banners, including the Female Judges' Choice in 2020 for his daughter, CCNF Electra) the Bataclan kids stormed into their first-ever Futurity winning the Light Get of Sire Class, 6 individual blue ribbons, 1 Reserve Championship (White Huacaya Male), 2 Championships (Light Huacaya Male & White Huacaya Female), and the Judges' Choice Female Huacaya! All of which led Bataclan to ultimately lay claim to the prestigious 2022 Light Herdsire of the Year, an honor his sire, Elixir, had previously claimed on three prior occasions.

We are not normally in the business of creating Herdsire listings for one-year-old males, but then again, not every alpaca male is CCNF Camden. The son of Irish Meadow's Elite Max (whom we co-own with his birth farm) and CCNF Campana (CCNF Bellanova x CCNF Elixir), Camden is likely on the cusp of becoming the next big thing come the summer of 2024 when he comes of age and begins his career here as a working male. While Camden's show record is obviously exemplary at this early stage of his development, it is not something that really took anyone by surprise if they were paying attention. Though his older full sister, CCNF Carillon, missed almost her entire would-be halter show window, courtesy of the Covid pandemic, she did manage to win back-to-back White Female Championships at the AOA National Fleece Shows in 2021 and 2022. This is to say that the quality of the EM/Campana kids -- and, for that matter, the EM/Elixir-line kids generally -- is likely not a fluke. We also value in the extreme the presence in Camden's pedigree of his maternal grandam, CCNF Bellanova, and *her* sire, SuperNova. Those are all lines we trust and have worked with for over 20 years now, and at a time of rapidly decreasing genetic diversity in the US herd, the chance to bring an elite Herdsire online with those genetics in him is a real gift! UPDATE: As of October 2023, we have decided that Camden will be closed for outside stud service, though any open female bought from CCNF will be able to breed with him, hopefully starting in the summer of 2024.