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[CLOSED] AutumnSun's Black Maelstrom

Alpaca, Huacaya, Herdsire (Male) | True Black

Sire: [CLOSED] Wolf Den's Dark Secret

[CLOSED; NFS] - BLACK CORNERSTONE

[CLOSED] Wolf Den's Dark Secret

HuacayaHerdsire (Male)True Black

AOA# 31620901DOB: 8/10/200915 yrs

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 coverage, along with his inky black fiber, many stopped and stared at Secret the ring. And worthy of that attention, his fiber has extreme density, bright shine, bundled crimp, and soft handle. These are traits that you want to add or amplify in your breeding program! This is obvious in the 10x champion true black son, AutumnSun's Black Maelstrom. We were fortunate to have had our program benefit from such an exceptional offspring, especially as he was just one of only a few we have performed to Secret! We have the fortune of several excellent herdsires, including grey and black, so Secret has had to be patient. And, Maelstrom is just as a precocious stud just as his sire, as both started breeding under 2 years old. Father and son both breed black well into our program. As our Secret is getting up there in years and we we don't want to overtax him (he is still breeding for us), we are closing him to outside breedings.

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 AOA# 31620901 True Black

Description

RC '16 AOA Fleece, CC '17 AOA Halter Maelstrom is a 13x champion, the 2016 AOA National Fleece Black Reserve Champion, and 2017 AOA National Halter Black Male Color Champion. His first fleece was measured in 2015 to be 18.81 AFD / 3.62 SD / 19.2% CoV. To bring home his banners, he combined awesome shiny, fine and uniform handle with tight crimp from his dam with Secret's inky-black similarly crimpy, shiny, and consistent fiber. Though both dam and sire have great coverage, Mael's head is credited to his sire's beautiful headstyle that cannot help but catch the eye. He is well conformed and balanced in his frame. Maelstrom has a lineage filled with champion banners, exceptional lineage, and black genetics. In Maelstrom, you have a list of "who's who" merging into a TRUE BLACK 7/8 Peruvian cornerstone herdsire. Maelstrom is the progeny of our multiple champion black herdsire Wolf Den's Dark Secret, who is the optimal result of the pairing of Dark Quest crossed with Othello bloodlines. His paternal grandsire is the well known Snowmass Nova's Dark Quest, son of the famous Snowmass Nova, son of Snowmass Peruvian Casanova. He is out of our lovely Fossil Ridge's Special K, a 7x champion fawn dam hailing from the multiple Champion Rumaki, a Royal Fawn son with the bloodlines of Presido and Felix. His crias have been stunning! Maelstrom's cria coloration to date is 88% black (TB or BB) from a black dam and 100% on our farm by dams whose pedigrees are known to produce black and/or are loaded in black. He has been bred to both black (49%) and non-black (51%) dams. When bred to the lighter colored dams (white, beige, light fawn) he produced crias darker than their dams 60% of the time, even some black crias! When his progeny have been bred to black, 100% of the descendants have been black. More than of one of his crias born to dams at our clients' farms have been described as "blue-black" in their owners glowing compliments.

Awards

1st @ 2016 TXOLAN Sweetheart Spectacular, Yearling Black, Arturo Pena

1st @ 2016 AOA National Show, True Black Yearling Male, Kristen Buhrman

1st @ 2016 MOPACA, Black Yearling Male, Sharon Loner

1st @ 2016 Futurity, True Black Yearling Male, Amanda VandenBosch

1st @ 2016 Great Western Alpaca Show, True Black Yearling Male, Helen Testa

1st @ 2016 AOA National Fleece Show, Nick Harrington-Smith

1st @ 2016 Illinois Alpaca Show, 2-yr-old black, Peter Kennedy

1st @ 2016 American Alpaca Showcase, 2-yr-old black, Jude Anderson

1st @ 2016 ABR Fall Festival Halter show, True Black 2-yr-old Male, Arturo Pena

1st @ 2017 TxOLAN Sweetheart Spectacular Fleece Show, True Black yearling males, Amanda VandenBosch

1st @ 2017 TxOLAN Sweetheart Spectacular Show, True Black 2-yr-old males, Amanda VandenBosch

1st @ 2017 AOA National Halter Show, True Black 2-yr-old males, Amanda VandenBosch

1st @ 2017 MOPACA Invitational Fleece Show, Dark Color 2 yr old, Wade Gease

1st @ 2017 MOPACA Invitational Halter Show, True Black 2 yr old, Robin Nasemann

1st @ 2017 AOA National Fleece Show, True Black 2 yr old, Ursula Munn "beautiful handle & brightness"

1st @ 2017 ABR Fall Festival, Mature Black Male, Helen Testa

1st @ 2017 ABR Fall Festival 2 yr old Black Fleece, Diana Timmerman

1st @ 2017 AOK Blastoff Mature Black Male, Diana Timmerman

1st @ 2017 AOK Blastoff 2 yr old Black Feece, David Barboza

2016 TXOLAN Sweetheart Spectacular, Black Male Reserve Champion, Arturo Pena

2016 MOPACA, Black Male Color Champion, Sharon Loner

2016 Great Western Alpaca Show, Black Male Color Champion, Helen Testa

AOA National Fleece Show, Black Male Reserve Champion, Nick Harrington-Smith

2016 ABR Fall Festival Halter, Black Male Reserve Champion, Arturo Pena

2017 TxOLAN Sweetheart Spectacular Fleece Show, Black Male Reserve Champion, Amanda VandenBosch

2017 TxOLAN Sweetheart Spectacular Show, Black Male Reserve Champion, Amanda VandenBosch

2017 AOA National Halter Show, Black Male Color Champion, Amanda VandenBosch

2017 MOPACA, Dark Color Fleece Champion, Wade Gease

2017 MAPACA Jubilee Fleece Show, Black Reserve Champion, Diana Timmerman

2017 ABR Fall Festival Fleece Black Color Champion, Ken Hibbits

2017 ABR Fall Festival, Black Male Color Champion, Helen Testa (as a three year old!)

2017 AOK Blastoff Black Fleece Color Champion, David Barboza

Purchase Terms

Updated 1/5/2025

Offspring

[Pending Sale] AutumnSun's Madeira Citrine

Open (Female)2 yrsDark Brown 

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[Pending Sale] AutumnSun's Nalini

Open (Female)3 yrsLight Fawn 

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lovely girl and great mom

[REF] AutumnSun's Mokkuro

Open (Female)6 yrsBay Black 

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5C's Category 4

Male3 yrsTrue Black

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Sweet little gal!

Autumn Day's Peaches & Cream

Open (Female)2 yrsLight Fawn 

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AutumnSun's Maeve

Bred (Female)3 yrsTrue Black 

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Black Maelstrom Daughter

AutumnSun's Marvelous Miranda - Lot 27 of the 2023 AAA

Open (Female)3 yrsBay Black 

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1st Place, 2025 TXOLAN Bluebonnet Stakes

AUTUMNSUN'S MILAGROS

Open (Female)2 yrsBay Black 

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AutumnSun's Orla

Open (Female)7 yrsDark Fawn

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Maelstrom daughter!

AutumnSun's Orla

Open (Female)7 yrsLight Fawn, Dark Fawn 

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FOUNDATION

AutumnSun's Petunia

Bred (Female)6 yrsTrue Black 

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AutumnSun's Seafarer

Jr. Herdsire (Male)3 yrsBay Black

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AutumnSun's Skift of Snow

Jr. Herdsire (Male)7 yrsDark Silver Grey

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Sale Pending

AutumnSun's Star Dune

Male4 yrsLight Fawn

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Maelstrom Girl w/ Stradivarius Breeding!

AutumnSun's Starling Dance

Open (Female)6 yrsBay Black

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FOUNDATION

AutumnSun's Temperance

Bred (Female)6 yrsTrue Black 

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Top 15% EPDs

FIR Maelstom's Starlet

Bred (Female)4 yrsMedium Fawn

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Golden Fawn Fleece

FIR Maelstrom's Starlet

Open (Female)4 yrsMedium Fawn 

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Granite Bay Jet Blue XX

Herdsire (Male)6 yrsTrue Black

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Granite Bay True BlueXX

Herdsire (Male)2 yrsTrue Black

Not for Sale

Gorgeous True Black Fleece!

Harmony x Maelstrom 23 - Sale Pending

Jr. Herdsire (Male)1 yrTrue Black

Price

$750

Beautiful LRG Fleece!

MHAR Hagrid Rubeus by Maelstrom

Jr. Herdsire (Male)3 yrsLight Rose Grey

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Beautiful True Black!

MHAR Satin Legacy By Maelstrom

Jr. Herdsire (Male)2 yrsTrue Black

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Promising Early Fleece Architecture!

MHAR Storm Cloud

Jr. Herdsire (Male)1 yrMedium Silver Grey

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Excellent Early Density, Bundling, Crimp

MHAR's Orchid Fantasy by Maelstrom -- Sale Pending

Open (Female)2 yrsTrue Black 

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Serandipity

Open (Female)1 yr 

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Starshire’s Larkspur

Open (Female)4 yrsTrue Black 

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Starshire’s Madagascar

Jr. Herdsire (Male)4 yrsDark Fawn

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Beautiful MSG Fleece!

Yasmine x M22

Open (Female)2 yrsMedium Silver Grey 

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