Snowmass Escobar’s Marvel

From Marvel’s pervious owner Lynn Edens of Little Creek Farm:

Congratulations to Elden and Ronelle Harms of Token Creek Alpacas on this new addition to their herd. There are some dams that come along that are just amazing across the board and impossible to pass up–one of these is Snowmass Escobar’s Marvel, dam of our herdsire, Snowmass Elite Hallmark. She’ll be traveling to Wisconsin to be a great producer for Token Creek. After she delivers her cria from Snowmass Crystal Code she’ll be ready to breed to the Token Creek’s awesome herdsire, PacaParadise Peruvian White Walker, I can’t wait to see what that breeding produces!

Check our Marvel’s histogram below and note the test was when she was 12.5 years of age. The cria from the Crystal Code produced an exceptional male, Token Creek Crystal Elevation, aka Eli. Marvel is bred to Paca Paradise White Walker for a July 2024 birth.

Accoyo America Trieste

Trieste is an new addition to our farm having recently purchased her directly from Lynn Edens at Snowmass Alpacas. We specifically chose her based on her extreme uniformity (SD) and excellent fineness (AFD) as detailed in her histogram. Follow the link below to view the histogram. Trieste is bred to our champion white male White Walker. That combination of genetics should produce a stellar cria with excellent SD and fleece weight. Oh, the anticipation!

PacaParadise Peruvian White Walker

Expression of elite fiber characteristics is the hallmark of any elite breeding male, and White Walker checks every one of the boxes. He sets the standard with a complete package of fineness, density, staple length, and a remarkable degree of uniformity. All this and a solid conformation. Both his dam and sire lines bring these traits through Snowmass Elite Legend, Snowmass Defiance, Accoyo America Tronador, and STLR Angeltron–each with exceptional EPD statistics. What isn’t shown on his histograms and density/skin biopsy report are his well-balanced frame and pleasant disposition.

The EPD information provided shows that White Walker is number six. He actually tied for number five of all male alpacas in the AOA EPD database for standard deviation of average fiber diameter. But it gets better. Of those top five, White Walker is first in EPDs for both staple length and fleece weight. Astute breeders understand the importance of these traits in advancing the fleece quality in their herd. White Walker gives up nothing in average fiber diameter (AFD 18.9µ at 35 months of age), ranking in the top five percent of all males in the EPD program. His first crias have hit the ground here at Token Creek Alpacas and we couldn’t be more pleased. We are excited and eager to now offer him for outside breedings.

The care of your female while at our farm is of utmost importance to us. Our local veterinarian is only 15 minutes away and the University of Wisconsin Veterinary Teaching Hospital is a quick 40-minute drive for those times when a higher degree of expertise is needed. All pregnancies are confirmed on the farm via ultrasound. The breeding fee includes 30 days of boarding after a confirmed pregnancy.

Token Creek’s Cosette

Cosette was incredibly thriving as a cria, having what I think is the highest weaning weight of any alpaca born here at Token Creek Alpacas, a whopping 90 pounds (at 7 months of age)! We love those robust youngster. She has continued to be just that while sporting a very nice frame and fleece. Her dam is our own MFI Sandles who births some of the best offspring we see here, four females and one male to date. We chose Snowmass Accoyo Elite Ice for Sandle’s breeding that produced Cosette. Both the dam and sire lines are heavy with white and we were surprised with Cosette being light fawn but we’ll take it when it comes with the fleece she has. Nice brightness, long staple and wonderful bundling. Cosette is bred and confirmed pregnant via ultrasound to our PacaParadise Peruvian White Walker for a June 2024 birth.