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! This is one mother who consistently delivers outstanding crias! 1/2 Accoyo, Deolinda has great genetics. She is the daughter of AOA Nationals Champion,CAA Duncan and AWE Color Champion El Nino's Rosita. She has Pperuvian Camilio as a grandsire on her father's side and El Nino on her mother's side. Pperuvian Caligula and PPperuvian El Moustachio are her great-grandsires on her maternal side. She has fine consistent lusterous fiber with good brightness with medium amplitude nice crimp from head to toes. She has a good typey head and a compact frame. As an adult her top knot has to be trimmed every few months due to its shear density. She is very striking with her medium brown fiber and with black points! She won ribbons at both shows entered her first year! In the second show the judge indicated that if she had not decided that she was not going to walk, he would have placed her 1st due to her overall package! Her first three crias have been two girls and one boy who are exact duplicates. Deolinda's EPD Results - 2017 Trait/ Value/ Accuracy/ National Herd Ranking AFD/ -0.371/ 0.531/ 16,759 of 42,559 / 39.38% SDAFD/ -0.084/ 0.531/ 18,376 of 42,559 / 43.18% SF/ -0.279/ 0.607/ 18,757 of 42,559/ 44.08% %F>30/ -1.997/ 0.609/ 16,170 of 42,559 / 38% MC/ 1.044/ 0.514/ 12,448 of 42,559/ 29.25% SDMC/ 0.153/ 0.548/ %M/ 1.5/ 0.12/ 37,194 of 42,559/ 87.4% MSL/ -1.689/ 0.444/ 36,252 of 42,559 / 85.19% FW/ 0.341/ 0.414/ 9,306 of 42,559 / 21.87% / Top 25% BW/ -0.965/ 0.128/ 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.

Armando was recognized at the National AOA Show in March of 2018 for being ranked #10 for spin Fineness in the nation out of 22,959 males at the incredible age of 12! Make us an offer that we can't refuse on one or more alpacas during our Retirement Herd Dispersal Sale! Only $500 down on Armando and you can start breeding some great genetics into your herd. Then pay $500 per breeding or $2500 per year for two years, whichever is more until he is paid off. You will need to fully insure him for his outstanding balance each year. Armando, a Victor grandson,full Peruvian and 5/8/Accoyo, was one of the lowest micron studs in the Ideal Alpaca Program and Ranked #3 in 2014 for fineness and #2 in 2013, #11 in 2015 and #10 in 2017 for spin fineness in the AOA EPD program and also extremely dense . In 2014 he was in the top 1% in six of the nine EPDs and top 2% in one other. This is quite an accomplishment for a nine year old breeding stud. In 2013 he was ranked #2 in both micron and spin fineness! He is built very sturdy on a compact frame and possesses good conformation. His genetics run deep with Victor's Valedar as his sire, Pperuvian Victor as grandsire and Peruvian Hemingway his great-grandsire on the top side. On the bottom side he has Pperuvian Hemingway as his great-grandsire. He has not only maintained incredible lingering fineness, but also uniformity of fiber,curvature, % under 30 microns and lack of medullation through his eleventh shearing! Mike Safley evaluated Armando and commented that he was very nice for his age and would make a great stud for a colored breeding program after noticing his small brown spot on his topknot on an otherwise all white fiber coverage. Our experience in breeding him is that he throws white or light fawn cria even when bred to dark browns. Armando's EPD 2017 Results: As of his 12th shearing, Armando is in the top 1% and off the charts on fineness- ranked #27 in the nation, spin fineness- ranked #10 in the nation, lack of medulation and %>30M, top 5% on Curvature and in uniformity of fiber (SD), and despite a shorter staple length still is in the top 31% in fleece weight. Armando also has very high accuracy ratings for his EPDs. If you want to make large genetic gains with either white or colored females who need improvement in these characteristics, then consider purchasing Armando! Trait/ Value/ Acc / Rank/ Rank% AFD -2.742/ 0.564/ 27 of 22,959/ 0.12%/ Top 1% SDAFD -0.519/ 0.562/ 700 of 22,959/ 3.05%/ Top 5% SF -2.98/ 0.648/ 10 of 22,959/ 0.06%/ Top 1% %F>30 -9.206/ 0.649/ 65 of 22,959/ 0.29%/ Top 1% MC 5.634/ 0.545/ 429 of 22,959/ 1.87%/ Top 5% SDMC 2.401/ 0.579/ %M -5.883/ 0.462/ 143 of 22,959/ 0.63%/ Top 1% MSL -0.143/ 0.473/ 12,150 of 22,959/ 52.93% / FW 0.314/ 0.437/ 7,121 of 22,959/ 31.02%