26x champ, incl. '16, '17, '18 AOA Nationals AOA Color Champion in 2016 fleece and in 2017 Halter and Fleece! He has more wins that can be counted, but check his show results below to see his consistency! We had been looking for quite a while for that one special black male to add to our herd in complement to our Dark Secret / Black Maestrom line. Fate smiled on us when we saw Stradivaruius as a juvenile to add to our program. Even in his tui tips, we knew he was the one and acted immediately. Even with our experience and confidence, we could not help be pleased with the confirmation of our opinion by his exceptional show results. A true black herdsire, Stradivarius is a 26x fleece and halter black champion with champion bloodlines in his pedigree which hails back to both Snowmass and Patagonia, through his sire Snowmass Andean Midnight and dam Patagonia's Simone (pivotal farms that were pioneers in the industry). His show wins include AOA National Show Halter Champion, AOA National Show Invited Champion Champion, and 3x AOA National Fleece Show Champion. We have been very selective with breedings to him, closed to outside breedings, to ensure the best case scenarios in most situations for black offspring. From this, 83% of the time he produced black (TB & BB) and 100% of the time, when bred to black dams. When bred to dams of other colors he produced black 43% of the time but darkened the cria 100% of the time. His spectacular offspring include AutumnSun's Aislyn, who won banners at the AOA National Fleece show both as a Juvenile in 2021 for us and as a 2yr old in 2023 for her new owners, Carol and Christian Howard of Cinco C Alpacas and Lynn Edens of Little Creek Alpacas. His son, AutumnSun's Peacekeeper, took a champion placing as a 3 year old breeding stud for his new owners in Austria, Oberstein Alpacas! Both Aislyn and Peacekeeper are making their own beautiful black crias for their new herds. Stradivarius is closed to outside breedings and us only available as service sire for sold ASA alpacas.

This girl has fine, soft fleece with a lovely brightness and small, even crimp style. Her conformation and health has no issues. She is a sweetheart and a great mom! We dry lot (feed mostly hay rather than pasture feed) and so our alpacas get their teeth trimmed as needed annually. Well, we weren't paying attention to Navy and one time a few years back we let her teeth overgrow before we noticed. So, her teeth are bit skewed now to the side but her jaw alignment is good and she was not like this in her youth and developmental years. Navy's sire is the many time champion Sunset Hill's Golden Thunder, who brought to the table awesome crimp, density, uniformity and staple. Navy is the daughter of a DB dam proven to produce black when bred to black; her granddam was also a brown that would produce black and grey when bred right. For her first cria, she was bred to our reserve light champion, Supermassive, to bring that massive bone ("rooted to the ground" was a judge's description at show), very full coverage and bold 'french fry' crimp to the mix. This cria was sold as weanling. She had not had an opportunity to breed again the last couple years to no fault if her own. She was one of our oldest son's girls, but he has moved on and is no longer in the alpaca breeding 'biz' so now she is back into the program. With our multiple champion Black Maelstrom she produced a fantastic roan male that has the look and fiber we are breeding for. This boy is passing through a desire to be grey as he exhibits a number of coin-sized spots on his body including in his blanket. After, Navy demonstrated again her desire to produce dark, as her boy by Stradivarius is also a roan. As a nod to his parentage, he is named 'Sea Chanter' the name of the official Navy band. This modern grey / roan male was worthy of his own herd. For her 2024 offspring, she made.... a black! This one a girl and a robust beauty! We love this girl!