Elite Legend daughter!
CCNF Constellation
Huacaya, Female, Proven | White
ARI# 32817485, D.O.B. 8/17/2013,
Sire: Snowmass Elite Legend ARI#
30338814 White One of our all-time favorite alpacas! We were co owners of EL for several years and his impact on our breeding program was and is undeniable. A multiple Champion and Futurity Herdsire of the Year.
Dam: CCNF Consolation ARI#
31425759 Dark Fawn The full sister of CCNF Herdsire, CCNF Wayfarer, and the granddaughter of our famed female, SHRA Virtual's Reality.
Service Sire: MFI's & KVR's Mint Mo Money ARI#
32827262 White Due Date: 6/14/2017 We purchased MFI's & KVR's Mint Mo Money -- together with our friends Wayne and Susan Robinson of Emelise Alpacas -- at the 2014 Breeders Choice sale at Magical Farms. Though in all honesty we hadn't gone to that final ever Breeders Choice thinking that we would be bidding on a male alpaca, Mo's fleece was so compelling to us that we figured we'd take a chance. There is always some risk in buying an alpaca that is not yet mature. We liken it to sports teams drafting 18 year old kids: while it is possible to project their possible upside based upon some markers that we've learned to recognize, there is *never* a guarantee that the animal in question will ultimately fulfill its potential. If it was too easy, it really wouldn't be any fun, right?
Now, having gone through the 2015 spring show season though, it's safe to say that we all (CCNF and Emelise) feel a bit like the cats that ate the canary. Though perhaps a touch high in his hind end at the time he first arrived here, Mo came home to CCNF last fall and after six months or so of eating good Vermont hay and marching up and down the mountainside here on Mt. Ascutney, he really filled out into a stunning young male. Guess what? The fleece held up too.
The grandson of the legendary Majestic Peruvian Jeremiah, we will be able to cross Mo in with the vast majority of our white/light herd (our Precocious daughters being an obvious exception). Amongst other things, his genetics will represent the first major infusion of El Niño (Caligula and Sunipani) and Titan blood into our breeding program, something which we are pretty excited about!
Though Mo was a bit of a, ahem, late bloomer with his breeding technique, several members of of his first generation of crias are now slated to play very important roles in our breeding program (not the least of which is his son CCNF Snow King, a full-fledged Herdsire) going forward.
Description
As though being a daughter of 3-time Futurity Herdsire of Year, Snowmass Elite Legend, wasn’t enough, this beautiful young female also comes out of one of our breeding program’s most storied maternal lines too. Her dam, CCNF Consolation, is the full sister of our former Herdsire CCNF Wayfarer, who now, after several years working for us here in Vermont, is carrying forth his family’s legacy as a frontline Herdsire for our friends, the Sjølli family, at Alpacajoy of Norway! Constellation’s maternal granddam, Nutmeg of Consolation, is in fact the winningest alpaca in our breeding program’s history and comes out of the same dam that produced 2014 Futurity Champion, CCNF Magistrate. All of which is a long-winded way of saying that Constellation’s pedigree is just loaded! Much as we love Elite Legend and all that he brought to our breeding program, with Constellation's older paternal brothers CCNF Elixir, CCNF Defiance, and CCNF Thorn all either proven, working, or getting ready too, we have those genetics covered and are thus able to offer this pretty young lass!
January 2017 UPDATE: Constellation gave birth in June of 2016 to a Matrix Majesty son, CCNF Corvus. He is now weaned and not included in her sale price. Constellation currently bred and confirmed pregnant to Mint Mo Money, the 2015 White Futurity Champion & Judges' Choice Male and due in mid June. This female is the the absolute real deal and is going to be having one of the first Mo crias ever. Understand all of that, or don't: we win either way...