Bonnie's Lupine is very definitely a grey in disguise. Both parents are light silver grey and 11 out of 14 of her ancestors (shown on her registration) are either silver grey or rose grey and 2 of the remaining 3 are true black! We expect that she will make an impact on our and other's grey breeding programs. Her fleece exhibits a nice density, softness of hand, and an exceptional consistency of style throughout, and as her father did…. lingering fineness with age. She has had three previous offspring with the fabulous sire Mile High Deacon Grey and two of those were LSG. She is an easy keeper, an excellent mother and a producer of ribbon winning crias (two out of three being grey). We felt that a breeding to the 3x Champion, 1x Judges Choice and 9x 1st place winner Wolf Den Dark Secret should be in store for Bonnie Lupin. Dark Secret has true black none fading tips, extreme density and bundled crimp and we and the prior owner feel that this should be one incredible cria coming up in 2015. Stay tuned!! Well, he2 2016 cria has arrived and is gorgeous - see the pictures of Choco! Just did his cria tipping and will be getting my chart out to determine for sure between bay black and super dark brown. Either way he looks great, still has that "popcorn" fleece quality and is growing like a weed. Bonnie is now spitting off her suitor - Dundee's Katmandu and all signs point to her being pregnant and ready to have another beautiful cria in early 2017. Bonnie's 2017 cria is a beautiful, true black female with soft crimpy fleece. Exactly what you would expect from a breeding with a perfect true black like Katmandu!! Original owners did not attend shows, so Bonnie has never been to a show. This doesn't diminish the special qualities she has and the excellent genetic background. We have submitted her fleece this year for histograms and will update her file as soon as results are received. We promised data and show and here are the results Bonnie's Fleece scored very nicely and garnered a first place in the 2015 TXOLAN spin-off competition. We also received a histogram this year and it showed an AFD of 26 and CV of 20% - actually still good considering this is as a 7 year old production dam!

Not Actually Sold as he passed away, but I didn't want to delete him as we have his genetics on our farm! *** NEWS FLASH 7/14/18*** It is with a sad heart that I have to post that Snowmass Enlightened passed away today peacefully in our pasture. He had congestive heart failure which was confirmed at Oregon State Vet School and we were treating him with medicines, but he had too much leakage in the valves in his heart. We are happy that we have 9 females pregnant to him this season and 10 females and 2 boys previsoulsy born on our farm. He was such an amazing herdsire and we will miss him dearly. Skyline Alpacas is extremely pleased to announce the arrival of our newest herdsire, Snowmass Enlightened. One can’t say enough about the quality of this male. I first saw his 2-year-old fleece (3rd fleece) at the CABA Classic fleece show in 2013 and couldn’t believe my eyes. The density, crimp, uniformity, and brightness were truly amazing. No wonder he got Color Champion! Never in my dreams did I think I someday would be the proud owner of this fine male! Here is what Snowmass had to say about their boy: “Snowmass Enlightened is a supernal, Multi-Champion Rose Grey Stud. His evolution descends from a remarkable lineage of momentous sires. Most Proximate is his own sire, Snowmass Enlightenment, who is also a multi-champion rose grey stud. He is sired by multi-champion Snowmass XXXtreme, who is sired by Multi-champion Snowmass Royal Rose… All of this is a proven grey performance at its paramount. Enlightened has a variety of grey, fawn, and dark offspring – all of which are stunning. Their fleeces are all consistently fine, dense, and bright with their sire’s sublime aesthetic in their overall phenotype.” Now that is an impressive genetic history that shows generation after generation of excellence. We can’t wait to see his first cria on our farm in 2015! We were not disappointed! We had multiple grey crias and they went on to win many ribbons at the shows. Enlightened also got 2nd in get a sire at Aplacapalooza. This class was not divided into dark and light so it was extremely competitive!