Where Excellence in Fleece and Conformation is a Life Style
Awarded 2010 Reserve Small Breeders of the Year
Foundation Dams
We are so excited to have acquired Mile High Peruvian Ambrielle into our program of elite alpacas.
Ambrielle displays all of the phenomenal traits of her sire, El Nino's Golden Legend and Dam, Mile High Peruvian Kusi. Her crimp style, density, fineness and beautiful color create fleece that is just to die for. Her excellent fleece and conformation have generated accolades from judges and producers alike.
Ambrielle's first appearance in the show ring was at TxOLAN 2009 where she was awarded the Blue and Color Championship ribbons. She when on to 2009 Futurity and was awarded the Blue in her class. She has been one of 3 progeny to allow Golden Legend to be consistently recognized in Get A Sire competitions.
Mile High Peruvian Ambrielle will finish her show ring career in 2010 and then be bred to Snowmass Matrix Rose at Red Granite Ranch.
We are grateful to Sharon and Frank Loner at Mile High Alpacas for gracing us with the opportunity to purchase this wonderful alpaca. Ambrielle is co-owned with Jeri and Jerry Johnson of Sand Creek Criations where she resides.
2009 Txolan Blue & Color Champion
2009 Futurity, Blue
2009 GWAS Blue & Color Champion
2009 Mid America, Blue & Color Champion
2009 Mid America - Bred and owned (RED)
2009 Fall Fest, Blue & Reserve Color Champion
2009 Fall Fest, Bred and owned Female (blue)
2009 Fall Fest, Blue Fleece Show
2010 MOPACA, Blue & Reserve Color Champion
2010 Futurity - 2nd place to Reserve Color Champion
2010 GWAS - 2nd Place to Color champion;
2010 GWAS - Reserve Color Champion
Mile High
Mile High Victoria’s Secret says “Move over runway girls”. Rich mahogany color, outstanding conformation, fine, dense fleece and a beautiful uniform crimp from tip to skin are just a few traits that have allowed Victoria’s Secret to experience the show ring success that her dam,Mile High Peruvian Hannah Bay, a 3-time color champion and her sire, the renowned El Nino’s Golden Legend, had set for their progeny to follow.
El Nino’s Golden Legend is perhaps one of the most striking males that any breeder will encounter.
This beautiful female has introduced us to the show ring competition with memories that we will never forget.
Watch as this beautiful female finishes her 2010 show career at GWAS 2010, before she is bred in June 2010 to Mile High Bandimere. This combination of genetics has us sleepless at night as we envision the cria that will be delivered in 2011.
Mile High Victoria's Secret makes her home at the beautiful Sand Creek Criations Spa and Resort. Give them a call and schedule a visit to put your eyes and hands on this magnificent girl.
2009 Futurity - First Place
2009 GWAS - First Place
2009 Mid-America, Topeka Blue
2009 Mid-America, Topeka Color Champion
2009 Fall Festival, Colorado Blue
2009 Fall Festival, Colorado Reserve Color Champion
2010 OK-Blast Off, Blue
2010 OK-Blast Off, Reserve Color Champion
2010 TxOLAN, Blue
2010 MOPACA, Blue & Color Champion
2010 Futurity - Red; Only Dark brown in the brown class
2010 GWAS - Blue;
2010 GWAS - Color Champion
LBA’S Atalia.
When she entered the ring, all we could do was say WOW. A dark fawn, Sandra’s favorite color, perfect conformation and phenotype and fleece everywhere. A calendar girl if there ever was one. After the judge properly evaluated all of the 15 entries, Atalia was awarded the blue ribbon, and our journey to learn more about her began.
Atalia, is the daughter of none other than the great sire, KIRWIN. He is a stunning male with great genetics and wonderful progeny. Kirwin also graced the show ring with is outstanding presence and fleece, racking up several color and reserve color banners along his way to Honeymoon lane at Crescent Moon Ranch.
Her Mother, Crescent Moon’s Abbey, is very fine fleeced lady and the mother of several ribbon winning offspring.
Atalia carries the white fleece characteristics of her mother, fineness, structure, soft to the hand and then adds the color provided by Kirwin. When you open her dense fleece, you see a field of wheat ready to be harvested. Individual bundles of tightly woven fleece with this shining brightness that is incredibly soft to the handle.
Atalia has had a short show career, but has done well in all of her appearences.
She will be on the road in 2010-2011 competing and then will become part of our foundation herd. Her service sire is still being defined, but Crescent Moon’s Gear Jammer is the current leader of the evaluation.
2nd 2010 AWE
3rd 2010 Futurity
1st 2010 GWAS
Dundee 's Etta of Adrenalin,
Daughter of Champions!
We were looking to add a bred female to our herd to round out our foundation. In reviewing the fleece samples we had acquired we recalled one sample where we had not actually been able to put our hands on the alpaca as she was on her maiden breeding voyage. We made plans to revisit Sara Jane and Hugh Maclennan at Dundee Farms and take a look at Etta. We are so thankful that we did.
Just one look tells you that this daughter of champions is a solid, stunning young female. She is structurally solid, perfect bite, proportions, dense bones, and straight legs. When you put your hands in her light fawn fleece you have to admire its length and the palpable architecture throughout. What your hands really appreciate is the fineness and the consistency of fineness throughout. When you consider her heritage, one could assume that such wonderful traits should not be uncommon.
Her mother Clementine is an eye catching, robust female, who not only was a Reserve Champion, but also Best Bred and Owned. Her sire is none other than Aztec Adrenalin, who is a multiple champion, a two time Get of Sire, and proving to be a very predictable breeder of quality producing 3 champions out of 5 crias. Her Great Grand Grandmother PPPeruvian Snappy, is one of the best females in Canada and her great grandfather, PPeruvian Victor has graced many progeny with his signature fleece structure.
So take these great genetics and imagine integrating them with ESCONDIDO'S MAKULU: 5 time champion EL NINO son. This 3/4 Accoyo herdsire's fantastic genetics are the foundation for this incredible fleece with a micron count of 16.8 at nearly two years old. In 2008, he produced 13.5 lbs of fleece. Makulu has taken FOUR Championships, THREE Reserve Championships, and 14 First Place ribbons - his crias are also taking championships.
Peruvian Legacy and Peruvian Caligula are Makulu’s grandfathers. El Nino’s cria are marvelous. Add to this from Etta's pedigree that includes Adrenalin, Victor's Vaccoyo, Drambuie, Snowmass Angel, and Snappy - one of the best dams in Canada. THIS IS A SPECTACULAR MATCH and we having anxiety attacks dreaming about the potential for this cria. It isn’t often that one may hope for a boy, but what a boy he could be. If it is a girl, we will be anxious for her to mature so that we can breed her to Mile High Peruvian Carlton Ritz in 2012.
Etta should deliver this remarkable cria in Aug 2010 and will be rebred to ZAMBONI of Artic Ice, a phenomenal young male at Dundee Farms.
2009 Histogram: (18 months of age) 20.7 AFD; 3.7 SD; 18.1 CV; 2.2 > 30
Chiaroscuro is a beautiful rose grey lady whose fleece is exceptionally fine and bright throughout her blanket. Integrate these fleece attributes with skin to tip crimp and character on top of a conformationally correct structure and you can envision the beautiful alpaca that Chiaroscuro represents. Her name means light and dark in Italian, which is a perfect way of describing her appearance.
Chiara's sire is 5 time color champion rose grey, Rayo's Roso e Grigio, a son of Rayo del Sol and an Accoyo Legacy mom. Her mom Daisy May is a maroon foundation mom from Xanadu Farm Alpacas who has several grey show ring stars. This championship background was a foundation for Chiara to also be awarded two color championships herself.
What a thrill it was for us to find Chiara. We desired a beautiful rose grey female with fineness, density and structure as part of our foundation and she was a perfect match. Xanadu Chiaroscuro was bred to MFI Toledo and provided us with a beautiful rose grey male in November 2009. Our prayers for a spitting image of Chiara in her beautiful grey package were answered. We are anxiously a waiting the day when Chimera’s Orion Grey will be old enough to make his way into the show ring.
Chiara, or ‘Chi-Chi’ as she is affectionately called, was rebred to Aladdin of KPR for a fall 2010 cria. Aladdin was selected with his beautiful black coloration and silky soft fiber, excellent crimp and confirmation. This should be another amazing cria! Chi-Chi and her boy Orion Grey, live a great life at Sand Creek Criations.
2008 Fall Fest, Colorado, Blue
2008 Fall Fest, Colorado, Color Champion
2008 GWAS Blue
2008 GWAS Color Champion
2008 Arkansas Alpaca Adventure, Blue
2008 TxOlan 2nd Place
2008 Minnesota Expo 2nd place
Evensong is a beautiful true black, with dense bright crimpy fleece and a very sweet personality. She is the daughter of the beautiful silver grey dam Patagonia’s Magenta and sire Strider, a true black male with density, crimp and character that represents outstanding uniform fleece.
Evensong was bred to MFI Toledo, an exceptional silver grey. With the strong black and grey genetics our hope to have these characteristics passed on to her cria came true. We were blessed with the first female born at Chimera Ranch in Oct 2009, and we named her Chimera’s Tehya, which means precious, as she is very precious to us. We are still determining whether she will be true black like her mother or a dark gray as she has the gray cast when in the bright sunlight. Either way we are very excited to have her join our herd.
Xanadu Evensong has been rebred to EastWind’s Snowstorm for a fall 2010 birth. EastWind’s Snowstorm should provide additional fineness and has a history of passing on the color of the dam, so we are hoping for an extremely fine, dark colored cria in the fall of 2010.
Xanadu Evensong resides at Sand Creek Criations.
2008 GWAS Fleece show 2nd Place