Autumn Sun Alpacas

Style in Black!

AutumnSun's Secret Mission

ARI# 31990929   D.O.B. 6/29/2013  (6 yrs)

Huacaya, Male, Unproven | True Black

5/8 Peruvian, 1/8 Bolivian, 1/4 Chilean

Sire: Wolf Den's Dark Secret 

Wolf Den's Dark Secret

Inky Black champion!

ARI# 31620901 D.O.B. 8/10/2009 Huacaya, Male, Proven True Black 3/4 Peruvian, 1/4 Chilean

At Autumn Sun Alpacas, we know that is no secret that this true black herdsire is an all-around package that you will want to cover any dam, light or dark colored! Secret is a black that had no fading at his tips or interspersed white fibers when he was showing (he's getting a few 'old man' white hairs now). This isn't surprising with a lineage that includes notable black sires like Othello, recently deceased, and Snowmass Nova's Dark Quest. With his distinctive head and leg coverag...

| ARI# 31620901  | True Black 

Dam: Reference for 2n1: ACC Marcy  

| ARI# 824554  | White 

Marcy is a mature dam but all the positive ways. She is proven to produce improved crias following the colors of their sires. She has bred, birthed, nursed and nurtured with ease all females except for one male, and in fawn and brown colors from fawn sires and black color from brown, grey and black sires.

Marcy has herself and has passed to her crias an uniformity of micron and style across her blanket, which leads to a lasting next-to-skin comfort-feel. Her fiber is still soft and bright now, with a smooth handle after several pregnancies. When bred to different males she has taken their attributes and added them to hers for an improved cria. With them being girls, we have had the benefit of adding them to our herd. We have her four daughters (two black), four grand-daughters (one black), three great grand-daughters as well as one (black) son and two great-grand-sons (one brown) at our farm. You can tell we liked this line of girls! But, like most farms, we cannot keep them all and since she is well represented in our herd, she is welcome to pass her secrets onto another deserving farm.

Marcy is a calm alpaca -- not a 'troublemaker' in the herd, easy to handle, and while being a good mom she isn't overly protective of her crias so as to make cria care a problem. She has no or care issues and is in good health. She is an attentive dam and productive nurser, with all of her crias having grown well.

She is nicely conformed, still well balanced and relaxed in her easy, healthy movement. Our shearer this year commented on how good her condition was, never guessing her to be a senior girl until told, and asked us how we kept our older alpacas looking good. His assessment reinforced our belief that good breeding and robust fiber come from healthy alpacas not 'dieting' to reduce their micron.

These genetics are great for any developing breeding program, since she pushes the service sire's fiber qualities through to augment her own fineness, handl

He is a black carbon copy of his sire, our black color champion Secret. Mission is DEFINITELY getting his sire's AWESOME head! You have to see this male's beautiful headstyle to appreciate it! Full fleeced on the face with a good topknot, but you do NOT have to trim 'eye holes' so he can see. Perfect!

As a weanling, he had the same look about his face and fiber as his sire had at this age. You can clearly see that he has fiber coverage up his nose and a heavy 'beard'. We go on and on because we really love Secret's head! He is massively covered but does not have wool surrounding his eyes so he doesn't need trimming -- all the look with no hassle!

Mission extends this coverage on his legs, with the compact, solid frame of his sire. He has the heavy bone structure that judges love in a male, with boxy proportions and good conformation.

Awards

- 2013 ABR Fall Festival, Best Bred & Owned

- 2014 TxOLAN, Best Bred & Owned - Cathy Merkley

1st - 2013 ABR Fall Festival, Dark Juvenile Bred & Owned

1st - 2014 TxOLAN, Dark Yearling Bred & Owned - Cathy Merkley

Dark Bred & Owned juvenile male - 2014 GWAS - Peter Kennedy

- 2015 NWSSTB Yearling halter males, Diana Timmerman (of 7). 2nd behind the Reserve Champion. "Very true to type" and noted his uniformity of color without white fibers, brightness, fineness (similar to first place).

- 2014 ABR Fall Festival, TB Yearling halter males, Kristin Burhmann (out of 12 nice males)

- 2015 TxOLAN, TB Yearling halter males, Amanda VandenBosch (nice farms / alpacas in competition).

$375 cash or $450 financed 90 days same as cash or 1/3 deposit, 1/3 at transport, 1/3 at certificate transfer or arrival at buyer's farm.

Space is a premium for us right now, so we are offering Mission at $75 if bought with any other alpaca from our farm -- yes that includes other males (at their full sales price).

Transportation/CVI and any certificate costs are the responsibility of the buyer.