Fiber/Scientific Data
May 2017 | 18.60 AFD, 3.6 SD, 19.1 CV, 99.5 CF |
Top CCNF/Snowmass genetics in 1 package!
CCNF Sunstarlight
Huacaya, Female, Proven | White
ARI# 35238386, D.O.B. 7/15/2015,
Sire: Snowmass Matrix Majesty ARI#
31139731 Light Brown Snowmass Matrix Majesty was the Reserve Dark Herdsire of the Year award at the 2011 Futurity as well as the Fawn Champion at the 2010 Futurity and with good reason too. Since that time he has had several crops of crias born here at Cas-Cad-Nac and to say that he has been impactful in our breeding program, would be a gross understatement. In addition to multiple Championships and Judges' Choice awards (at both the 2014 AOA National Show and 2014 Futurity) his offspring have also combined to win multiple Get-of-sire classes for their all-world sire. Majesty has also the winner of the Futurity Herdsire of the Year awards again in both 2013 and 2014.
Matrix Majesty is the genetic amalgam of some of the greatest names to ever grace the North American alpaca herd. Herdsires such as Chaccu, Legacy, Hemingway, Quechua, Matrix, Elite, Augusto, Accoyocusani, and Bueno are all present. Also present in his pedigree are the famous rock star dams PPP Prestige, 4P Isabella, PP Jesusa, and Snowmass Maree Love, the first three of whom we also had the great privilege of having here in our foundation herd late in their lives. Needless to say, the genetics in this guy are stacked and it shows.
Snowmass Matrix Majesty displays the amazing fleece characteristics that the Quechua line has become known for: the combination of elite fineness and uniformity throughout while sacrificing nothing in density. Now fully owned by CCNF and used almost exclusively within our own herd where we play him off of the CCNF Elixir and CCNF Royal Ring of Fire lines, as of January 2017 Majesty is closed for outside stud service.
Dam: CCNF La Vie en Rose ARI#
31700580 Medium Fawn Former CCNF show girl and current rock star of our colored breeding program, out of what must be considered the most powerful maternal line in our entire farm's history. Not by chance, she is also the most important Royal Ring of Fire cria he ever sired that we have working for us as well.
Service Sire: CCNF Elixir ARI#
32314304 Beige Due Date: 6/26/2018 Meet the crown prince of CCNF. Show record aside, at the time he was born, Elixir was probably the best male alpaca our breeding program had produced in 16 years. Good thing too, as he and his paternal siblings had some mighty big shoes that we were asking them to fill in the years ahead. The son of three time Futurity Herdsire of the Year, Snowmass Elite Legend, and our multi-Champion Archangel daughter, CCNF Ascension, Elixir when conceived as a concept on paper was supposed to be good. We just had no idea that the stars were going to align quite as nicely as they did. The fleece fineness and phenotype of his maternal line combined with the other-worldly density and uniformity he got from his sire are virtually unmatched here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm.
The 2015 AOA National Fleece Show essentially turned into Elixir's official coming out party as a proven Herdsire. He not only won the Champion Light Male and Judges' Choice Huacaya Male himself but more importantly, four of his offspring (CCNF Spittfire, CCNF Dropshot, CCNF Antares, and CCNF True Adoration) won Championship banners as well, leading to a championship sweep of both the Light and White Male color groups. Not too shabby for his first batch of kids. Since that time of course, the Elixir kids have been front and center in our show strings producing among other accolades, back to back Futurity Herdsire of the Year awards in both 2017 and 2018.
Of course one of the things we love about our boy, is that he can be bred to both light and dark females with equally exciting outcomes (Elixir is a classic dorsal beige). He continues to throw everything from whites to browns, all extremely bright and fine. If you have any doubts as to the prowess of this world-class Herdsire, you need only spend 10 minutes or so walking down the line of our show pens any spring or fall. The proof is most definitely in the progeny...
Elixir stands at stud here at CCNF from July 1st through October 1st before moving back to our partners' farm in Maryland for the fall season. As of July 1st, 2016 CCNF Elixir was closed for all future outside stud service. You can both look for his offspring in our sales listings though as well as a select number of females who are offered for sale already bred to him.
Description
Whoa, do the genetic math on this female as those waters run super-deep, going all the way back up to her great-great-maternal grand dam, PPeruvian Jesusa.
Of course the more crib-notey version is that Sunstarlight is a member of what has to be considered the top pound-for-pound producing maternal line in our entire breeding program’s history. Her maternal sister, CCNF Oriflamme (sired by Elixir), finished a spring show season last year that ended with yet another Futurity banner after already being awarded the Light Championship and Judges’ Choice Female at the 2017 edition of that show! In addition to her kid sister, 5 (count 'em!) other members of her maternal family were part of our show string at the 2018 Futurity where they all total accounted for 5 1st place ribbons (including the dark Produce of Dam class), 1 Reserve Color Championship, 2 Color Championships, and both the male AND the female Judges' Choice Awards! Care to guess what those JC winners have in common? They were both out of female members of this maternal line (in this case Sunstarlight's maternal aunts) that had been sired by Matrix Majesty (sound familiar?) and that were then bred to Elixir.
Never ones to redesign the wheel too much, this beautiful girl was bred to CCNF Elixir in 2017, in an attempt to riff on Oriflamme. The result was a gorgeous beige female named CCNF Requiem en Rose (we were gutted to lose Sunstarlight and Oriflamme's dam, La Vie en Rose earlier last summer) who we have retained for our breeding program.
Sunstarlight is now pregnant a second time, bred again to the 2017 & 2018 Light Futurity Herdsire of the Year. She will of course sell with a live birth guarantee!
Awards
1st Place - 2016 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza
Reserve Champion White Female - 2016 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza