Description

Thanks to Darcy Phillips of Rare Gem Alpacas for allowing us to bring Huckleberry to our farm.

This handsome young male is out of Accoyo America Shasta Daisy. Daisy is the daughter of 6X color champion, Accoyo America Jason. Jason is co-owned by Amber Autumn Alpacas and Little Creek Farm, LLC. Owner, Lynn Edens, comments on Jason... The offspring of a very successful pairing of Camilio siblings, Jason won the AOBA Nationals championship in brown three years running. It is rare to find such exquisite crimp, character and density in a deep red brown fleece. Even better, Jason has consistently reproduced those characteristics in his crias, and at such a high level that even his white offspring are consistently ribboning in the competitive white classes. He has produced champions in fawn and brown.

Huckleberry's sire is the highly expressive and wildly spotted harlequin appaloosa herdsire Apache Gentleman. This line carries legendary appaloosa / harlequin genetics on both sides of the pedigree. These exciting genetics are in high demand and several of Huckleberry's siblings have been exported to Europe.

Huckleberry is a solid youngster-- straight legs, lovely head style and a bright, dense, fine medium fawn fleece. Huckberry's harlequin appaloosa sire throws appaloosas and harlequins >80 percent of the time. Unfortunately, Huckleberry only has two visible spots-- both black. We are hoping that these spots indicate he has the harlequin gene and will pass this on to his offspring.

Harley or not Huckleberry has a very fine fleece that is showing very nice crimp coming in. In a recent walking fleece competition the judge commented that his next fleece will be much denser and have very nice architecture to it. He placed 3rd out of a class of highly competitive 7. We are anxious to get him shorn and let that fleece start growing.

Huckleberry has held his own in some touch competition in shows. He is growing nicely, and we look forward to using him as a herdsire in our harlequin/appy program.