In 2023, FDA Divine Inspiration had Two Traits ranking in Top 5% EPD's, One in the Top 10%, Two in the Top 15% & One in Top 25% EPD's
Sire: SNOWMASS DIVINE LOVE
ARI #: 32123531
Color: Medium Fawn
(SNOWMASS CONOPA XXX & SNOWMASS MAREE LOVE)
One of the legends of the Snowmass breeding program, Divine Love is out of the great Snowmass Maree Love, making him maternal 1/2 brother to the legendary Snowmass Quechua, and sired by Snowmass Conopa XXX. He, like his sire, has since been exported to Canada.
When Snowmass Divine Love was born into this world he must have brought something from another world with him. At first glimpse of his fleece we had to rub our eyes and make sure that the light wasn’t playing tricks on us. Once we realized what we were looking at our jaws dropped. For the first time in our entire history as alpaca breeders we were looking at a lavender colored alpaca. That's right… lavender fleece.
We had come to expect nothing less than extraordinary cria from his damn, Snowmass Maree Love, but we could not have predicted the phenomenon that is Divine Love. His otherworldly fineness and density are simply uncanny in combination with his mystical color. We must give credit to his sire, Snowmass Conopa, for this seemingly arcane genetic infusion.
It was apparent that we needed to take Divine Love to show, but we weren't sure what complications would arise due to his color. We think he should have qualified as a grey, but the AOBA show system didn’t have a color on their chart to classify him by. Not knowing what to do with him they put him in the ‘bred and owned’ class where he ended up taking champion. From there he moved on to face the champions from all of the color classes in the judge’s choice competition… again he won.
It was really exciting to see the astonishment of the judges faces when they opened his fleece, and then to listen as they tried to describe his fleece characteristics over the mic. Many people were stunned that he had actually won the overall champion until they came saw his fleece for themselves. “Oh wow!… now I understand”
Divine Love was the Male Judge's Choice of the 2013 Futurity, and the Hi-Selling Huacaya Alpaca at the 2017 Futurity Auction. His offspring have been great and look like they are going to follow in their sire's footsteps. At 7 years of age he is still boasting a 18.4 micron! Divine Love has a VERY dense fleece that is very fine also. He has a solid conformation with great bone density and a great phenotype.
Dam: SPA ALPACAS PERUVIAN CHIFFON
ARI #: 848695
Color: Light Fawn, Beige, White
(SPA PERUVIAN EL SENOR & GRAZING HILLS LE LUCY)
Some of Chiffon's Awards:
1st Place, 2004 Southern Select Alpaca Show
2nd Place, 2004 The Futurity
2nd Place, 2004 North American Alpaca Show