GnR is now owned by Fun in the Country Alpacas in Michigan. He remains on our "Hall of Fame" as herdsire emeritus, for all that he has contributed! Deciding which herdsire to use in your breeding program? Here's what we do.. Pedigree: An excellent indicator of a male's EBV (estimated breeding value). We want lines with established pre-potency that have demonstrated sustained fineness through at least 4-5 years. Click on GnR's ARI cert icon above. Conformation: It has to be a given, if it's not, the search stops here. We like a male that is well proportioned, but compact. We want good bite and head. Solid bone and strong fore and hindquarters. We prefer good sized testicles and want to see him breeding before age 2 and maintaining a vigorous libido thereafter...but an even non aggressive temperament. GnR is our poster boy for all of the above. Fiber: Hand and uniformity: That's easy! Just put it against your cheek.A grid sample can be found by going to our website...he's consistant across a broad blanket top to belly, brisket to tail. Fineness: It's not about 1st shear micron. What's the 4th shear like? Don't hide the SD and % over 30 micron...that's what the industry is crying for. And while your at it, check out the difference between the micron in primary and secondary fibers and their respective SDs (on skin biopsy stats). Brightness: GnR's fiber glows...a quality not lost on every one of his offspring. Density: Fiber doesn't have to "feel" dense...more often than not that's a sign of coarseness. Quite simply, GnR is the densest grey biopsied through Jim Watt's lab in Australia, and they've been doing it for over 20 years.If you click on the histogram icon, you will see his biopsy results. An explanation of those numbers can be found on our website. Length: His fiber is ridiculously long. His 4th shear (at right) is only 315 days.

Full Peruvian - Here are lines that represent Snowmaster and 4P Legacy. Starz has produced consistanly produced superfine, less tha 17 micron, cria. She is fine, dense, uniform with outstanding definition in her fiber at age 7, and put into a conformationally perfect package. Her sire, Legacy Gold, sold for $500K at the Snowmass 2006 auction and when we came across her as lot #18 in 2007, we knew that we had to have her. Her 2007 cria, out of Snowmass Royal Rose, i.e. Snowmass RRoyal Stars, is on our herdsire row and has been tested by Ian Watt: His follicle density of 79.51 and S/P of 13.0/1 place him as the 4th densest alpaca they've tested in the US, 5th in the world. Of course, that's only a small part of the biopsy data, histogram and expert show ring evaluation against the best that we feel, have placed him in the superstar category. See his listing for more detail on acquiring these superlative genetics.

Touchstone is a legend. After a brilliant show career he established himself as one of the most pre potent studs in our 16 years of breeding. His last show was at age 4 where he Championed with a commendation as having the finest fleece in the color class juveniles included! His crias have consistently inherited the uniformity, brightness, definition and outstanding length Touchstone maintains. They too, with limited show exposure, have taken Championships. His mark on our herd improvement has been indelible. He has raised the bar...