Tierra Prometida Alpaca Ranch

Amazing Brightness, Fineness, Density!!

Snowmass Touche'

ARI# 30408753   D.O.B. 12/1/2005  (7 yrs)

Huacaya, Male, Proven | Beige

7/8 Peruvian, 1/8 Chilean

Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we are thrilled to announce the addition of Snowmass Touche' to our herdsire line-up. We have been looking for a long time for a males who can geneticallly and phenotypically complement our Caligula's Accoyo Poseidon offspring and those of his beautiful son's.
We were looking for a male that we could breed to our Elite White females and to our colored production females. In essence, we were looking for a male with Elite Fleece Characteristics--especially with a combination of Density, Fineness, Brightness, and bundling.

I believe that we have found the PERFECT MALE to fit our needs! He is INCREDIBLY DENSE exquisitely FINE and has one of the most advanced fleeces with remarkable consistency from head to toe. And he is a compact and typey male who has correct conformation and bite.

Snowmass Touche is truly one of the finest, densest, elite white fleece studs out of the Snowmass Breeding program. He was designed to go over both Elite white and Color production Dams. He has a very unique genetic line up which includes the superior line of Snowmass Maree Love --the Dam to Snowmass QUECHUA and Snowmass INVINCIBLE, Touche's Sire.
The unique and white Elite element to Touche is his Dam, Snowmass Olay--she is the only Sollocota - Allianza line with her fineness in the Snowmass herd.

He has his first offspring on the ground. The oldest came to the Futurity 2010 in the Snowmass show string-- "Snowmass Velvet Touch". "Snowmass Velvet Touch" earned the male reserve Brown Color Championship, then in 2011 won the male Brown Color Championship.

Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we have had some of our best cria out of this male and it is no surprise when you consider his EPD's.

EPDs November 2012/Generation 4 statistics
Trait Value Accuracy %
AFD -1.652 0.411 Top 2-3%
SDAFD -0.468 0.425 Top 2-3%
SF -1.718 0.441 Top 1-2%
%F>30 -7.069 0.445 Top 2%
MC 4.036 0.402 Top 2%
SDMC 1.092 0.283
%M -0.753 0.353 Top 25%
MSL 0.32 0.334 Top 2-3%
FW 0.612 0.272 Top 2-3%

In addition to evaluating and validating his conformation and fleece in the show ring, we have done histograms on his fleeces every year. We also did a skin biopsy on him this spring and at 7 years of age, not only has his fleece been amazing in the past, but the current traits he is exhibiting are still remarkable. AND his EPD's demonstrate that he will consistently and reliably pass those traits on to his offspring.

Tierra Prometida’s “Snowmass Touche” was biopsied as a 7 year old white huacaya male with ARI#30408753. His 15X scan demonstrates large fiber clusters very uniform in size and placement. This trait was likely passed from his dam. His density is 76.75 follicles SQ MM of skin and his average S/P ratio based on 25 fiber clusters is 12.0 to 1. It is of note that Touche’s pri

Updated 4/29/2013