Here at Tierra Prometida Alpacas, we are thrilled to have Snowmass Touche' in 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 excellent stable formation.
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.
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 fl