Fox is going on 17 and acts like he's 10. If you want better fineness EPDs and uniform, fine, pigmented gray fleeces with lots of crimps per inch and essentially no guard hair, he's the one! This line produces lingering 13 to 19 micron pigmented gray fleeces...consistently. Fox's first five fleeces were combined into one lot to make yarn at Heart and Soul and they commented on the uniformity of the lot. Thanks to his sire, Royal Bronze, Fox is a master at overall uniformity, removing guard hair and fining down fleeces and adding more crimps per inch, good staple length, along with deep and vivid colors. He's a SILVER GRAY, SNOWMASS BRED, AOBA NATIONAL COMPOSITE CHAMPION and well proven to produce healthy, correct, typey progeny! He is highly ranked for other traits too. He virtually removes all guard hair, including belly and bib. We attribute this amazing ability to his sire, Snowmass Royal Bronze, who is recognized by Julie Skinner as having recognized as having strong vicuna traits. Density? He has royal fine daughters (see Dream Catcher) with 4+ pound tui blankets and SDs in the 3s. Character? Gray daughter, Mellona, is 14.5 afd, 3.5 cv; 59 curve (not a typo) @ 21 mos. and then a 63 curve the next year! Uniformity? Hardly anything to skirt out of his progeny's fleeces. Offspring have very consistent, uniform and high yielding fleeces...Little to no skirting is needed for these big blanket fleeces. Primary and secondary fibers are very similar, even across colors in the gray fleeces, most of which are pigmented silver grays. In every offspring you will see higher frequency & amplitude crimp. ZERO to minimal guard hair...no matter the dam or color of the cria. You'll likely never see any guard hair on the belly of a Fox offspring. Soundness and health, correct phenotype, conformation and movement. Even dispositions and very intelligent...and even a few silly personalities. Certified Sorted graded Fox's 3 y.o. champion for "WORSTED applications". No W, LF or MF crias and no blue eyes. -Gray dtr, Kristiana (sold at AOBA auction): EPDs 2% fineness and placed: RC, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th; bought her back in 2024. -Gray son (Irish Meadows) - 1st Futurity. -Black dtr. (Irish Meadows) produced a black Champion son by Jacob Black. -Gray dtr. Rayna (Sold to Dusk Till Dawn Alpacas at AOBA auction for $16k)- 1st @ Alpacapalooza 2012; RC/2nd GMAF. -Gray dtr. Silver Truffles - Purchased by Alpaca Country Estates. Other grandkids are winning ribbons too.

Saratoga had a light fawn male cria on June 7, 2014, sired by Islandcrest's Baranov. The cria has excellent conformation, very straight, cute face and oustanding fleece, with lots of crip and length. Pictures coming soon. Islandcrest's Saratoga, full-peruvian, sister of Award Winning CL9 Golden Galaxy, is a beautiful animal in all areas. She has exceptional fleece and strong conformation, stands very straight with super density and full fleece coverage from head to toe. She is a easy birther and a very attentive mother. She had her first cria in May 2008, a boy, Islandcrest's Vahsel, sired by CL9 Super Nova. He is a nice male with nice conformation and outstanding fleece. Her 2nd cria, a male sired by Peruvian Castano Bay, is a nice golden fawn color, compact with very sturdy, straight legs and a great head. Saratoga's 2011 cria is Islandcrest's Elvis, a silver grey male sired by Snowmass RRoyal Fox. Fox was named Composite Champion of AOBA 2010 with his 3rd year fleece. Sara comes from a long line of outstanding producers and will not disappoint! Purchase of Sara comes with an additional breeding and can be used on any of your females.