MASTER OF HERDSIRES: Every livestock breed has the one Stud that surpasses all others-- not just in looks but in every element of excellence that defines the breed. In the alpaca, this element is primarily the fleece: Fineness of micron - Brightness and soft handle - good staple length - curvature - density with low primary fiber production, and most importantly, UNIFORMITY of all these traits. Snowmass Elite Legend possesses these qualities and continues to produce them year after year in his offspring. The other element that distinguishes a stud above others is perfect conformation--including the ideal head. Snowmass Elite Legend possesses every element we desire. He was used almost exclusively over Snowmass’ white females because of his excellence and purity in clear bright white genetics. They rarely used him over colors as they have been trying to selectively breed for prediction of solid color. As time went on, they decided to breed Elite Legend to a few of their strong colored females. The outcome was so remarkable that they realized the importance of bringing him into their color breeding program on a strategic level. Snowmass Elite Legend has graced many of the North American Alpaca breeding programs with his progeny. One after another carries on his vital excellence passing on the fleece characteristics we need to bring the North American Alpaca Industry to the heights of the finest alpaca fiber producers. Aside from his accolades in shows, Elite Legend's fiber production across his progeny is the most valued element of his success. Snowmass Alpacas has proudly said that Snowmass Elite Legend is the most distinguished White Huacaya Stud standing in the WORLD. Tierra Prometida Alpacas is proud to announce that we now co-own Snowmass Elite Legend with Cas Cad Nac Farm. Though he is not being offered for outside stud service, Elite Legend will be in Texas at Tierra Prometida Alpacas and his genetics are available through the purchase of females bred to him and through the purchase of his offspring.

TP Jubilee's Echoe is a solid young female with excellent conformation and size. She exhibits excellent density and fineness along with a nice softness of handle. Echoes of greatness abound in this pedigree....Snowmass Matrix, Snowmass Quechua, Victor's Valedar, PPeruvian Victor, and Chase Tavern Tallow. TP Jubilee's Echoe is the daughter of our TP Matrix Jubilee who has spectacular density with a density of 107 follicle per square millimeter. Her dam is Chase Tavern Tallow, who is the dam of TP Poseidon's Motivator ( our multi champion male now owned by Jennifer and Dick Babcock and Sandy and Greg Smith). She is a beautiful, well grown white female with a dreamy combination of fineness, density, and impressive staple length. Her 2017 shearing, at 12 months of age, produced 7 lbs of fleece off of a 115 lb female with an average fiber diameter of 16.4. We haven't done a skin biopsy on her but I suspect that like many of TP Matrix Jubilee's offspring, she has inherited his spectacularly dense, fine fleece and she will be a great addition to any light breeding program looking to add impressive fineness with density and staple length. "TP Jubilee's Echoe" was biopsied as a 26 month old white huacaya female with ARl#32547283. Her skin thickness measured 2.34 mm. Her 15x scan shows fiber .clusters uniform in placement but often irregular in size and shap_e within her connective tissue. Note her stressed fibers. Her density measures 68.75 follicles SQ MM of skin and her SIP ratio is 14.4 to 1. She shows level 1 of 4 gland presence and 30% of her secondary fibers show a level of medullation. 100 secondary fibers average 17.2 microns while 50 primary fibers average 26.8 microns for a spread of 9.6 microns. These stats figure an AFD of 17.85 microns. She currently has a gorgeous little Medium Fawn male at her side, sired by Irish Meadows' Endgame. She is to be bred back to Alydar this year. Her color genotype: eeAe2