Alpaca Country Estates, LLC

Description

PATAGONIA'S ERNESTO:
Patagonia’s Ernesto is a magnificent light brown compact herdsire that improves every dam to her fullest potential. Before I purchased Ernesto, I bred numerous females to this dynamic male just to see what he could do. I discovered that I could take an average dam, breed her to Ernesto, and voila, he would produce a stunning offspring. This feat was proven when we had hundreds of the females assessed with their juvenile crias. Time and time again, the cria scored better than the dam so I knew I had something special going on with this male and one way to obtain improvement in the production of our breeding program.

In many ways, Patagonia’s Ernesto has surpassed his one of a kind sire, Patagonia’s Lennox, and what Lennox has been able to achieve in his life-time. Ernesto’s dam, R&RR Irishea, is a light fawn from Ruth and Rodney Elvestad’s Canadian breeding program whose goal was to have lasting fine fleece, yet have the fleece to be the ultimate in density as well. Ruth operates Olds College in Canada working with fiber. Irishea is out of one of my very favorite males, CAVA Guivar Zorro, a true black import.

He has many good breeding years left and would love to have the opportunity to prove it!

Ernesto’s Show Record shows for itself:
JUDGE'S CHOICE, 7x CHAMPION & 5x GET OF SIRE RIBBONS


Ernesto's first crias hit the show ring in 2012 and continue to perform!
PATAGONIA'S EL CANTO DE CHILE - LF Male 8/5/11 (5x Champion & Numerous Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S BACCUS - TB Male 7/4/13 (3x Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S MANTECOL - MB Male 7/26/13 (3x Champion & Multi-Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S ENCHANTED LIGHT - LF Female 6/22/11 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons)
AUTUMNSUN'S MAJOR GENERAL - DRG Male 6/6/12 (2x Reserve Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S PERFECTION - DF Female 8/20/2013 (Color Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons)
ESTATES ERNESTO'S KEEP SAKE - DB Female 9/1/2013 (Color Champ & Blue Ribbon)
LIBERTYS ALLEGIANCE - TB Female 8/12/2014 (2x Champ & Multi-Blue Ribbons
PATAGONIA'S FRANCO - MB Male 6/12/12 (Reserve Champ & Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S DELFINA - MB Female 10/13/12 (Multi-Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S REGALONA - MB Female 6/12/11 (Multi-Blue Ribbons)
PATAGONIA'S ADELA - LF Female 6/30/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner)
PATAGONIA'S ARIELE - MF Female 7/10/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner)
PATAGONIA'S SHONSHONE - MF Female 7/16/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner)
PATAGONIA'S ARCTICA - WH Female 9/11/12 (Blue Ribbon Winner)
PATAGONIA ESTATES AZTEC - LB Male 6/27/2015 (Blue Ribbon Winner)

Awards

JUDGE'S CHOICE - 2010 GWAS - HALTER, JUDGE'S CHOICE MALE (CLASS OF 7)(JUDGES: JUDE ANDERSON & JILL MACLEOD)

COLOR CHAMPION, 2010 GWAS - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 76)(JUDGE: JILL MACLEOD)

COLOR CHAMPION, 2010 AOBA NATIONAL - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 28)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

COLOR CHAMPION, 2009 ALPACAPALOOZA - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 54)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

COLOR CHAMPION, 2009 KENTUCKY CLASSIC - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 32)(JUDGE: AMY BLISS-MILLER)

COLOR CHAMPION, 2009 CABA CLASSIC - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 52)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

RESERVE CHAMPION, 2010 AWE - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 35)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

RESERVE CHAMPION, 2010 CALIFORNIA CLASSIC - HALTER, BROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MALE (CLASS OF 29)(JUDGE: SARA JANE MACLENNAN)

1ST PLACE, 2015 CALIFORNIA CLASSIC - HALTER, GET OF SIRE (CLASS OF 5)(JUDGE: SHARON LONER)

1ST PLACE, 2010 AWE - HALTER, BRED AND OWNED YEARLING MALE (CLASS OF 9)(JUDGE: JILL MACLEOD)

1ST PLACE, 2010 GWAS - HALTER, BROWN MALE TWO YEAR OLD (CLASS OF 9)(JUDGE: JILL MACLEOD)

1ST PLACE, 2010 AOBA NATIONAL - HALTER, BROWN MALE TWO YEAR OLD (CLASS OF 3)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

1ST PLACE, 2009 ALPACAPALOOZA - HALTER, MEDIUM BROWN MALE JUVENILE (CLASS OF 8)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

1ST PLACE, 2009 FUTURITY - HALTER, MEDIUM BROWN MALE JUVENILE (CLASS OF 7)(JUDGE: TIM LAVAN)

1ST PLACE, 2009 KENTUCKY CLASSIC - HALTER, MEDIUM BROWN MALE JUVENILE (CLASS OF 7)(JUDGE: AMY BLISS-MILLER)

1ST PLACE, 2009 GWAS - HALTER, FULL FLEECE HUACAYA MEDIUM BROWN MALE YEARLING (CLASS OF 6) (JUDGE: RUTH ELVESTAD)

1ST PLACE, 2009 CABA CLASSIC - HALTER, DARK BROWN MALE YEARLING (CLASS OF 11)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

2ND PLACE, 2013 ALPACAPALOOZA - HALTER, MIXED/DARK GET OF SIRE

2ND PLACE, 2010 AWE - HALTER, MEDIUM BROWN MALE YEARLING (CLASS OF 8)(JUDGE: WADE GEASE)

2ND PLACE, 2010 CALIFORNIA CLASSIC - HALTER, FULL FLEECE HUACAYA BROWN MALE YEARLING (CLASS OF 7) (JUDGE: SARA JANE MACLENNAN)

4TH PLACE, 2016 CAROLINA ALPACA CELEBRATION - HALTER, GET OF SIRE (JUDGES: JILL MACLEOD & AMANDA VANDENBOSCH)

4TH PLACE, 2015 AOA NATIONAL SHOW - HALTER, GET OF SIRE (CLASS OF 5)(JUDGES: JILL MACLEOD & HELEN TESTA)

5TH PLACE, 2015 CABA CLASSIC - HALTER, GET OF SIRE (CLASS OF 5)(JUDGES: WADE GEASE & NICK HARRINGTON-SMITH)