Elixir/Majesty/SuperNova cross!
CCNF Dreadnought
Huacaya, Herdsire (Male), Unproven | Dark Fawn
ARI# 35238706, D.O.B. 6/8/2015,
Sire: CCNF Elixir ARI#
32314304 Beige Meet the crown prince of CCNF. Show record aside, at the time he was born, Elixir was probably the best male alpaca our breeding program had produced in 16 years. Good thing too, as he and his paternal siblings had some mighty big shoes that we were asking them to fill in the years ahead. The son of three time Futurity Herdsire of the Year, Snowmass Elite Legend, and our multi-Champion Archangel daughter, CCNF Ascension, Elixir when conceived as a concept on paper was supposed to be good. We just had no idea that the stars were going to align quite as nicely as they did. The fleece fineness and phenotype of his maternal line combined with the other-worldly density and uniformity he got from his sire are virtually unmatched here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm.
The 2015 AOA National Fleece Show essentially turned into Elixir's official coming out party as a proven Herdsire. He not only won the Champion Light Male and Judges' Choice Huacaya Male himself but more importantly, four of his offspring (CCNF Spittfire, CCNF Dropshot, CCNF Antares, and CCNF True Adoration) won Championship banners as well, leading to a championship sweep of both the Light and White Male color groups. Not too shabby for his first batch of kids. Since that time of course, the Elixir kids have been front and center in our show strings producing among other accolades, back to back Futurity Herdsire of the Year awards in both 2017 and 2018.
Of course one of the things we love about our boy, is that he can be bred to both light and dark females with equally exciting outcomes (Elixir is a classic dorsal beige). He continues to throw everything from whites to browns, all extremely bright and fine. If you have any doubts as to the prowess of this world-class Herdsire, you need only spend 10 minutes or so walking down the line of our show pens any spring or fall. The proof is most definitely in the progeny...
Elixir stands at stud here at CCNF from July 1st through October 1st before moving back to our partners' farm in Maryland for the fall season. As of July 1st, 2016 CCNF Elixir was closed for all future outside stud service. You can both look for his offspring in our sales listings though as well as a select number of females who are offered for sale already bred to him.
Dam: CCNF Prima Majesty ARI#
32655544 Dark Fawn 14x Champion, 4x RC between Halter and Fleece shows. Daughter of Snowmass Matrix Majesty and CCNF Bellarina. Due in 2017 with Dreadnought's full sibling. Duh.
Description
If we do our job right, every year there always is a core group of crias born into our herd that we know fairly quickly are *very* special. CCNF Dreadnought was part of that special clique within the 2015 birth class here at Cas-Cad-Nac and was one of the first -- but by no means the last -- alpaca born here to show just what a potent cocktail the genetics of CCNF Elixir and Snowmass Matrix Majesty could combine to make. Certain lines just work well together and Elix and Majesty have basically been having an epic genetic bromance ever since.
On his sire's side, Dreadnought brings in the genetics of the mighty CCNF Archangel, our our old foundation female 5Peruvian Cangalli (now deceased), and of course the inimitable Snowmass Elite Legend, who once upon a time also laid his head here at CCNF.
Dreadnought's dam, CCNF Prima Majesty though obviously a daughter of you-know-who, is maternally out of our now aging SuperNova daughter and former AOBA National Champion, CCNF Bellarina, whose mother in turn was our old rock star dam, PPPeruvian Pachelbel. So on paper and pedigree alone, Dreadnought is really easy to get excited about. Then you look at the package: dense and fine, with a highly organized fleece that just shines. He is in short everything we were looking and hoping for when we bred his parents together. As it turns out, we were even happy that he was born with testicles as well!
Fresh off of his final jaunt around an actual show ring where he was the RC Fawn Male at the 2018 Futurity, Dreadnought is now a proven Herdsire. If early returns are any predictor of things to come, we are nothing but bullish about what the future holds for this exciting Herdsire!
Awards
1st Place - 2016 Northeast Alpaca Expo
Champion Fawn Male - 2016 Northeast Alpaca Expo
1st Place - 2016 NAAS
Reserve Champion Fawn Male - 2016 NAAS
1st Place - 2016 Mapaca Jubilee
1st Place - 2016 AOA National Fleece Show
Reserve Champion Fawn Male - 2016 AOA National Fleece Show
1st Place - 2016 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular
Reserve Champion Fawn Male - 2016 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular
1st Place - 2016 Empire Extravaganza
Reserve Champion Fawn Male - 2016 Empire Extravaganza
Best Prepared - 2016 Empire Fleece Show
1st Place - 2016 Empire Fleece Show
Champion Fawn Huacaya - 2016 Empire Fleece Show
Huacaya Judges' Choice - 2016 Empire Fleece Show
1st Place - 2017 Northeast Alpaca Expo
Champion Fawn Male - 2017 Northeast Alpaca Expo
1st Place - 2017 NAAS
Champion Fawn Male - 2017 NAAS
1st Place - 2017 Futurity
1st Place - 2017 AOA National Fleece Show
Champion Fawn Male - 2017 AOA National Fleece Show
Reserve Champion Fawn Huacaya - 2017 Showtacular Fleece Show
1st Place - 2018 Futurity
Reserve Champion Fawn Huacaya Male - 2018 Futurity