El Nino's Elberto is a pre-potent elite alpaca who is the complete package - outstanding confirmation, presence, great genetics and dense fiber. He maintained a stunning histogram though his 5th shearing and still at his old age is in the Top 6 out of 9 EPDs and even as a dark fawn! His grandsires are PPeruvian Caligula and PCA Peruvian Microsoft with his great-grand sire being PPeruvian Camilio. His Sire, PCA El Nino, had a remarkable Secondary/ Primary fiber ratio of 12.5 and a Follicular Density of 89.2 follicles per square millimeter of skin. We believe that Elberto is one the the highest quality offspring of El Nino. He has won a ribbon in every show that he has entered! Elberto has sired outstanding crias beginning in the summer of 07. Since then he has put his stamp on the majority of his offspring who have won numerous ribbons at the largest AOBA shows and top EPDs. We have one working stud and 5 foundation females in our herd that are his offsping. A 2009 fleece sort revealed 88 oz of WL 2 & 3 in his blanket and 41 oz of WL 1 & 2 in his neck ( nice neck density). His brightness is 9 out of 10 from cut end to tip, 9 out of 10 for density, 9 out of 10 for consistent uniformity of crimp from cut end to tip, medium amplitude and frequency crimp of 5-7 per inch. Excellent fleece weights include 42 oz on lower legs. Staple length 3.5 to 4.0 inches. Sorter commented "beautiful secondary/primary fiber alignment and nice fleece weight." El Nino's Elberto's EPD Results - 2015 Trait/ Value/ Accuracy/ National Herd Ranking AFD/ -0.709/ 0.619/ Top 26% SDAFD/ -0.557/ 0.618/ Top 1%/ Ranked #256 out of 19,048 males in the National herd! SF/ -1.032/ 0.658/ Top 16% %F>30/ -3.430/ 0.660/Top 22% MC/ -0.886 / 0.610 SDMC/0.081 / 0.629 %M/ 1.914 / 0.370 MSL/ +1.028/ 0.555/ Top 25% FW/ +0.814 / 0.520/ Top 2%/ Ranked #464 You will note that his spin fineness in far better that his fineness due to his low SD. He is the reason we won three top awards behind Snowmass two years and then 3rd place another year behind Snowmass and Parkview at the IAO show for most consistent breeding programs and a Reserve Championship as Get-of-Sire for Commercial Fleece behind Snowmas at the IAO show. Whether you are interested in purchasing high quality alpacas for breeding, show, fiber or selecting a herd sire to breed to, you should use Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) as your most important selection tool in addition to evaluating phenotype. You can also increase the probability of creating ideal offspring with up to 95% accuracy. Contact us to learn more about using EPDs. We have been using them to improve our herd since 2008.

Make us an offer that we can't refuse on one or more alpacas during our Retirement Herd Dispersal Sale! Only $500 down on Antoine and you can start breeding some great genetics into your herd. Then pay $500 per breeding or $1000 at the end of one year, whichever is more until he is paid off. He is significantly discounted because he does not socialize well with most males and will need to be kept in a pen by himself. He has had a very high end female that we also have for sale. Antoine has a nice head on a balanced frame. He has good architect of fleece that has a long staple length. His fleece cracks when he moves showing a great density. Cosmetically he caught his right ear on the fence as a cria. Antoine has great genetics with Caligula on his father's side and Microsoft and Camelio on his mother's side and Hemingway on both sides. Antoine is pheno typically correct. Both his sire and dam have given us some outstanding offspring! Antoine's 2013 fiber sort showed 10 out of 10 for brightness, 4.5 out of 5 for density and 7 out of 8 for uniformity of micron with moderate amplitude and moderate frequency of 6-7 per inch. He had 53.0 oz of WR 1-2 in his blanket and 27.1 of the same in his neck. Staple length is 2 1/2 - 3 inches. Sorter said "bright, dense, uniform S/P, fleece lacking guard hair and had a slick hand." Antoine's 2017 EPDs show that he is in the top 2% for lack of medullation, top 4% for staple length, top 6% for FW, top 15% for %>30M and for fineness, and top 17% for spin fineness. If you need to improve those traits in your female for a better cria then consider purchasing Antoine. Antoine's EPD Results - 2017 Trait/ Value/ Acc/ Rank/ Rank% AFD/ -1.163/ 0.507/ 3,513 of 22,959/ 15.31%/ Top 25% SDAFD/ -0.198/ 0.507/ 7,129 of 22,959/ 31.06%/ SF/ -1.12/ 0.571/ 3,897 of 22,959/ 16.98%/ Top 25% %F>30/ -4.749/ 0.574/ 3,325 of 22,959/ 14.49%/ Top 15% MC/ -0.029/ 0.493/ 14,036 of 22,959/ 61.14%/ SDMC/ 0.369/ 0.526/ %M/ -4.619/ 0.413/ 449 of 22,959/ 1.96%/ Top 5% MSL/ 3.423/ 0.419/ 1,006 of 22,959/ 4.39%/ Top 5% FW/ 0.683/ 0.384/ 1,313 of 22,959/ 5.72%/ Top 10% BW/ 1.085/ 0.102/ Whether you are interested in purchasing high quality alpacas for breeding, show, fiber or selecting a herd sire to breed to, you should use Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) as your most important selection tool in addition to evaluating phenotype and genetics. Our herd has some of the highest EPD accuracy ratings due to breeding some of the best genetics and due to the shear number of these genetics in the EPD database. Consequently you can also increase the probability of creating ideal offspring with up to 95% accuracy. Contact us to learn more about using EPDs. We have been using them to improve our herd since 2008.