26x champ, incl. '16, '17, '18 AOA Nationals
AOA Color Champion in 2016 fleece and in 2017 Halter and Fleece! He has more wins that can be counted, but check his show results below to see his consistency!
We had been looking for quite a while for that one special black male to add to our herd in complement to our Dark Secret / Black Maestrom line. Fate smiled on us when we saw Stradivaruius as a juvenile to add to our program. Even in his tui tips, we knew he was the one and acte ...
26x champ, incl. '16, '17, '18 AOA Nationals
AOA Color Champion in 2016 fleece and in 2017 Halter and Fleece! He has more wins that can be counted, but check his show results below to see his consistency!
We had been looking for quite a while for that one special black male to add to our herd in complement to our Dark Secret / Black Maestrom line. Fate smiled on us when we saw Stradivaruius as a juvenile to add to our program. Even in his tui tips, we knew he was the one and acted immediately. Even with our experience and confidence, we could not help be pleased with the confirmation of our opinion by his exceptional show results.
A 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, through his sire Snowmass Andean Midnight and dam Patagonia's Simone (pivotal farms that were pioneers in the industry). His show 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.
His spectacular offspring include AutumnSun's Aislyn, who won banners at the AOA National Fleece show both as a Juvenile in 2021 for us and as a 2yr old in 2023 for her new owners, Carol and Christian Howard of Cinco C Alpacas and Lynn Edens of Little Creek Alpacas. His son, AutumnSun's Peacekeeper, took a champion placing as a 3 year old breeding stud for his new owners in Austria, Oberstein Alpacas! Both Aislyn and Peacekeeper are making their own beautiful black crias for their new herds.
Stradivarius is closed to outside breedings and us only available as service sire for sold ASA alpacas.
Eirwen is the daughter of our multiple champion black herdsire, Dark Secret, who has sired many greys and black offspring (including out multiple champion Black Maelstrom). So, whereas we had hoped Eirwen would be black (as her dam has produced black before), we are still hopeful that Eirwen can produce black (with her dark lips and nose in evidence that she carries some dark genetics).
Eirwen's dam is our Song, a foundation girl in our herd. Her half-sister Danica produces babies that 'knoc ...
Eirwen is the daughter of our multiple champion black herdsire, Dark Secret, who has sired many greys and black offspring (including out multiple champion Black Maelstrom). So, whereas we had hoped Eirwen would be black (as her dam has produced black before), we are still hopeful that Eirwen can produce black (with her dark lips and nose in evidence that she carries some dark genetics).
Eirwen's dam is our Song, a foundation girl in our herd. Her half-sister Danica produces babies that 'knock it out of the park' every time.
Her first girl, Isolde, a dark fawn by Stradivarius, has lovely fiber but didn't make our show string as a juvenile (we run a small string) -- in favor of her MB cousin, Oraine, daughter of Danica, who later sold in the Amber Autumn Auction that year. But as a yearling Isolde was sold in The Futurity auction.
Then, Eirwen produced another DF girl, by our modern rose grey, Judge, that also has spectacular fiber. This girl, named Alys, suffered a cold at a couple of months old. Unfortunately, when we thought Alys was getting better, we lost her suddenly.
This year we bred Eirwen to Axios, not a black but a stellar male that has produced excellent offspring in dark color to include black. Her cria is a a beautiful fawn roan girl. Axios has been producing amazing crias! We only have her on the sales list because we have Song and Danica but question that decision daily. As this 2024 cria develops we get closer to reconsidering.
Congratulations to Anthony Stachowski for his winning bid and for selecting AutumnSun’s Guinness for her maiden breeding!
Isolde (beautiful one in Celtic) is the lovely offspring of our 26x black champion Estates Stradivarius out of AutumnSun's Eirwen, sired by our champion black Wolf Den's Dark Secret. Stradivarius’ banners include several at the AOA National Fleece and Halter Shows. Secret has several banners himself and has sired champions. Multiple times Eirwen's dam (AutumnSun's Sweet Patriotic Song) has produced black and her champion half-sister (AutumnSun's Danica) has produced dark crias. With Isolde’s pedigree, we were confident she would produce black before we received her color genotyping: “Ee Aa3”. Heterozygous in both ASIP and MC1R genes she is partially dilute in expressing her red tone of the dominant A allele. But her black allele is a3 which means with the right pairing she will produce black with a good depth of color (a ‘truer’ black).
Isolde is a sweet girl, an often overlooked trait that is sorely missed when absent. She is free moving and carries herself well with overall pleasing type and feminine head put together in an elegant frame. Her fiber is soft, uniform, and luminous with good staple and crimp in a well covered fleece.
If you wanted to promote black in her maiden breeding, she could be bred to our 13x black champion AutumnSun’s Black Maelstrom (we believe he should be “Ee aa” based on his progeny coloration) as it would only be 6.25% coefficient of line-breeding and would pair "Maelstrom line” with the “Stradivarius line”.
Or, you could breed her to AOA National Fleece champion AutumnSun’s Guinness, another of our black herdsires. He was the first cria out of our 9x champion Red Granites Molly, missing most shows as he was a little slower getting going. But his first cria is a dynamite TB with a heavy, greasy feel to his fleece. Molly made AutumnSun’s Peacekeeper, sold to Oberstein Alpacas in Austria as a yearling (himself also producing black), and AutumnSun’s Marvelous Miranda who just sold at AAA. She is “Ee a3a3”, one notch away from being the perfect black color! How stellar, pairing up genetics of Guinness with Secret and Stradivarius!
Other potential service sires in our extensive herdsire row of champion quality genetics... AutumnSun’s Axios, producing black crias from fawn dams (i.e. AutumnSun's Divine Glamour) and passing on high luster on beautifully organized crimp style (i.e. AutumnSun’s Oraine). ...Our classic LRG AutumnSun’s Artorius, 5x banner winner who was described by the 2023 AOA judge as the example to see for zipper crimp! ...AutumnSun’s Truthsayer, an extremely fine, uniform neo-classic DRG who won 3 fleece banners at AOA Nationals (his daughter, 2x!) passes on his fine fleece on in all colors but one of his lightest crias, Champagne Bubbles (a fawn out LF dam), color-typed “Ee a2a2” - ready to make black crias when bred right.
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