We knew that Arturo was going to be extraordinary as soon as his fleece was dry. His namesake, Ken's father (Arthur), would have been 100 years old the day Arturo was born. We also knew that dad, our own Snowmass RRoyal Stars was a "dilution" white, with fleece density in the top 1% of alpacas biopsied by Ian Watt, as was his mom RR Rose Encantada and waited with confident expectations until the results came in. Skin biopsy report: (Ian Watt) Density: 76.7/mm2 S/P ratio: 14.2:1 In-skin mean primary fiber diameter: 21.7 SD 2.9 In-skin mean secondary fiber diameter: 18.5 SD 2.4 Comments: " An elite alpaca in all fleece respects! There is nothing to add to what the numbers clearly say..." Want fineness...look at his histograms. His histogram at 36 months--> AFD 17.5/ SD 3.6/ CV 20.8/ CF 100% and curve 55.0 Dg/mm is one that would make any cria proud! He is a stunning male and of all the ribbons and banners that he has racked up, the one that we're most proud of is "Best Hand" at MAPACA, under Jude Anderson...that says it all! PLUS...HE MAKES SOLID GREY... Arturo has established his genetics indelibly in our herd and made many Champions and banners. He can do the same for yours...

Carmen is one of our favorite GnR daughters and had a brilliant show career. What a thrill it is to see her first offspring out of Midnight Sun. Carmen is a champion in brown and has had excellent serial histograms and a follicle skin testing by Ian Watt not only for follicle density and S/P ratio but a differntial between her primary and secondary fibers of just 5.6 microns...very impressive and quite obvious in a very soft handling fleece...like butter! Mona Lisa is all that we would expect out of Snowmass Midnight Sun. "Sunny" has had a brilliant show career, excellent analytics (including Watt biopsy of 63.17/mm2 and S/P of 11.2:1) and consistant excellence of production in our herd, producing two of the densest female alpacas in the US to date (RR BELLEZA NERA and RR Abigail Adams) (watt). We bred her to our RR Arturo, whose biopsy stats are outstanding for density, S/P ratio and P-S differential an got this stunning little boy RR Warhol who will be a nice addition to your show team. He is not only adorable but has stunning fleece at shearing. Mona has been bred to our RR Adagio for what we expect will be another beautiful cria. Both Mona's mom and dad are carriers of a black allele and produced outstanding blacks, and we will try to pull black with this breeding. Mona is also a sweet girl who is easy to work with. She has produced Allesandra who is excellent and on our showstring and has many productive years ahead of her.