AutumnSun's Marvelous Miranda - Lot 27 of the 2023 AAA

Thank you and congratulations to Rotten Mud Hodowla Alpak in Poland for the purchase of our AutumnSun's Oraine and AutumnSun's Marvelous Miranda at the (2023) 9th Annual Amber Autumn Auction! We are pleased in your faith in our program, and we are excited at the prospect of further promoting our alpacas in Europe.

Her sire: Maelstrom is the progeny of our multiple champion black herdsire, Wolf Den's Dark Secret who is the optimal result of the pairing of Dark Quest crossed with Othello bloodlines. He is out of our Fossil Ridge's Special K, a multiple champion fawn dam hailing from the multiple Champion Rumaki. His first fleece was measured to in 2015 to be 18.81 AFD / 3.62 SD / 19.2% CoV. Maelstrom's cria coloration to date is 88% black (TB or BB) from a black dam and 100% on our farm by dams whose pedigrees are known to produce black and/or are loaded in black. He has been bred to both black (49%) and non-black (51%) dams. When bred to the lighter colored dams (white, beige, light fawn) he produced crias darker than their dams 60% of the time, even some black crias! When his progeny have been bred to black, 100% of the descendents have been black. More than of one of his crias born to dams at our clients' farms have been described as "blue-black" in their owners glowing compliments.

Her dam: Molly is a 9x bay black champion that is sired by SpringToo Jamahl, a 6x dark brown champion who has his own list of award-winning progeny. Molly's first fleece was measured in 2015 to be 17.6 AFD / 3.4 SD / 19.2% CoV / 0.4% above 30 / 46.1 crimp / 16.8 comfort. Molly has made only black for us: 2x Reserve Champion AutumnSun's Guinness (including AOA Reserve Champion Fleece), AutumnSun's Peacekeeper (sold to an Austrian farm before shown), our Miranda, and this last year AutumnSun's First Impression (a full brother to Miranda).

A potential service sire: Our true black herdsire Stradivarius is a 26x fleece and halter black champion with champion bloodlines in his pedigree which hails back to both Snowmass and Patagonia , in his sire Snowmass Andean Midnight and dam Patagonia's Simone (pivotal farms that were pioneers in the industry). His wins include AOA National Show Halter Champion, AOA National Show Invited Champion Champion, and 3x AOA National Fleece Show Champion. We have been very selective with breedings to him, closed to outside breedings, to ensure the best case scenarios in most situations for black offspring. From this, 83% of the time he produced black (TB & BB) and 100% of the time, when bred to black dams. When bred to dams of other colors he produced black 43% of the time but darkened the cria 100% of the time. Now you understand why we somewhat regret offering her for sale, when we could have the progeny from her bred to Stradivarius.