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.

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Maelstrom is closed to outside breedings. He is not available for sale unless with the purchase of entire herd; in that event, no breedings will be allowed until he is paid off in full.

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I fell in love with Aislyn when I saw her beautiful fleece hit the table at the 2021 AOA Fleece Show. I immediately contacted the Livingstons to congratulate them and to ask if Aislyn was for sale. They didn't want to part with her at that time so I watched from a distance. When Chris and I attended TXOLAN 2022 to look around, we ran in to the Livingstons who had Aislyn at the show. Long story short, we have purchased Aislyn and are thrilled to add her to our black breeding program. Aislyn's current fleece is as stunning as her juvie fleece I saw at the show. Thanks to the Livingstons for parting with this beauty and to Lynn Edens for partnering on her. We're hoping for big things in the future. Apparently this gorgeous female has still got the fleece we were so impressed with. She won RC Black Female Fleece at AOA 2023. Aislyn and AutumnSun's Black Maelstrom's cria arrived on 10/11. The cria is TB as we expected and it's a female!!!!! The depth of black at birth was exactly what we had hoped for. I'll post photos as she grows. We're excited...... Aislyn is bred to Amber Autumn Magavin for a spring '25 cria. Color Genotype EEa3a1 non- grey