This male gets better and better looking as he matures. He was born with a solid, well-conformed frame and he is maturing into a proud, statuesque herdsire. He is calm and composed in personality, not one to get easily excited but with the reserve common in the herdsire mindset. He will be a great stud. Good thing his fiber is also coming together very nicely, crimpy and soft with very nice density and bundling in a very long staple. On a note about his showing (just his first halter show in May 2021): We weren't planning to show, and so hadn't cria-shorn our 2020 crop or bothered coating them. Thus, when 2021 shows rolled around, to say we were less than prepared is probably being generous. But we loved the fiber on this guy and were excited about the public gathering restrictions lessening (then lifted!), so we decided to give it a go. In truth, the show results don't really demonstrate how nice this guy is, to our chagrin, and I can only say that we are proud of how he did and where he fails to show off as well, we shoulder the blame. So, be kind to him as you view his first fleece / 2021 results, knowing that he was at the mercy of his owners and weather conditions he could not control. :) Despite that, he had done reasonably well in the shows, just off the mark (1st place, of course) by one -- but always showing against Artorius! His lower placing in the AOA national fleece show was actually scored higher than other scores with high placings, showing the high caliber of competition in the AOA show as to be expected. Though in walking fleece, if there was such a thing as Exceptional Fleece Award such as there is in fleece shows (and extrapolating the 80% to the less available total in WF vs fleece shows), he would have garnered such an award at the GWAS walking fleece show.

Description Serendipity is an easy keeper that has bred, carried, birthed and nursed with no issues. Her dam's line has been strongly maternal, all good breeders with a propensity to produce girls (all been modern greys). Her granddam and great-granddam are both modern greys, so Serendipity is 4th generation modern grey on her dam's side. Her sire is our multiple classic rose grey champion stud AutumnSun's Dauntless, son of multiple classic rose grey champion Annual's Bea-2 Bomber, son of multiple classic silver grey champion Aussie .38 Special -- 3 generations of champion grey! Serendipity paired to 13x champion Spartan's Silver - Lining produced a lovely BB girl that we named Joie de Vivre. Black fits right in our program, so we were thrilled. After demonstrating that Serendipity has the black gene, we looked towards breeding her to a classic grey to see if this nod to black genetics would also bring out a classic grey. We bred her to our Reposado (a son of the champion Patron) to promote her grey genetics, but she has pushed her black genetics instead. We welcomed to the world a robust true black boy! For a short while, she stays on our sales list with her boy at her side. As he grows, things may change... SOLD! Congratulations to Kim and Robert Brandsma of Sugar Pike Alpacas!