SAD NEWS: Porteus died in Summer 2010. We will miss him greatly. His offspring will have a lasting impact on our herd for years to come. We'll leave his listing up as a lasting tribute to this extraordinary stud. We are pleased to announce our partnership with Dusty Creek and Reiling Ranch in ownership of this extraordinary herdsire. He is one of the most outstanding colored herdsires we have ever seen. If your goal is to breed to the ULTIMATE™, please consider Porteus. We cannot describe him better than Snowmass Alpacas so here are their words: "Named after the best Port we have ever tasted… And a toast to the very best XXXTREME production son ever to be born. The entire Alpaca breeding world knows who Snowmass XXXtreme is after taking herdsire of the year 2 years running 2006 & 2007. This particular son, Snowmass Porteus was the Ultimate reason why. Porteus in our opinion is the ULTIMATE™ in COLORED ALPACA production and why he has been staged in the Snowmass publication of The Making of Champions Part II as having the ultimate colored alpaca fleece.(A LONG, FINE, XXXtremely BRIGHT, staple and incredibly consistent through the entire body, from head to chest to toe) Snowmass Porteus simply stated has the “LOOK”, strong, upstanding, and extremely well balanced in his frame added to his ELITE FIBER he has INCREDIBLE POTENTIAL to raise the bar in ALPACA COLOR FIBER. Snowmass Porteus, as well his sire, has taken our COLOR breeding program to the top level of SUPERIORITY equal to the most ELITE whites. Porteus was shown at the highest level show, The Futurity, and took first place both as a Juvenile and Yearling and moved victoriously into the CHAMPION CIRCLE. Many Juveniles place well the first year but the real test is if they can stand in the same position the next year. His 1st yr AFD of 15.1 and 2nd year of 16.5. HE IS THE ULTIMATE™ of Snowmass XXXtreme’s production and he will take your breeding program to the highest levels of excellence because that’s exactly what these genetics have done for us!"

Cupid's Arrow hit his target. We were greeted on Valentine's Day with an amazing gift - Blue Gate Valentina. She made her appearance and was up and nursing in record time. From day one Valentina has had that "look at me" presence. She is in a pasture with a group of cria that are several months older than she is, but she is holding her own with them and sometimes even leads the cria mischief. Her conformation is picture perfect and now that her fleece is starting to come in we feel confident that we are seeing exactly what we wanted when we planned this breeding. Valentina's sire is My Peruvian Accoyo Monument, a full Accoyo son of the incomparable Accoyo Augusto. Monument is relatively unknown but we have seen several of his cria and have been impressed at his ability to pass on those highly regarded Augusto genetics. Valentina's dam, Xcella, is a daughter of Magical Farms' outstanding stud Quetzal (a son of Accoyo Timoteo). Xcella is one of our best conformed females. The pairing of Xcella's Quetzal genetics with Augusto genetics made for a fabulous result. Valentina bred to our herd sire, Albus and delivered a beautiful male cria. Valentina comes with a breeding to any Blue Gate herd sire.

NEWS: SKIN BIOPSY RESULTS COMPLETE Dr. Evans "Albus highest S/P ratio ever tested to date" He has an S/P Ratio of 21.25! We are pleased to announce our partnership with our friends Joanna and Rob Stephens of RobAsia Alpacas. We share ownership is a fantastic young male with amazing potential - RobAsia's Albus. We have been very selective in purchasing breeding males for our herd. For us to purchase a white male meant he had to meet and exceed any of all of our expectations for powerful genetics, excellent fleece characteristics proven with hard data, and great conformational traits. We studied him on paper, looked and fleece samples, and then traveled to Wisconsin to see him in the flesh. We made our decision with no hesitation. Genetics: Albus is sired by Snowmass Quechua's Quest. Quest is an amazing combination of two powerhouse lines in the Snowmass herd, Snowmass Star Quest (Augusto line) and Snowmass Quechua (multiple herdsire of the year). Albus' dam brings just as much to the table with her Snowmass Invincble and Accoyo Caligula in her portfolio. A secret ingredient in Albus is the appearance of arguably, the most influential female in the Snowmass herd, Snowmass Maree Love on both the top and bottom of Albus' pedigree. Fleece: Beautiful! We studied his fleece samples, saw his show fleece from his last shearing, and studied his fleece on body. The hand on Albus' fleece is among the best we have touched. The character and crimp in the fleece is consistent from top of his head to his tail. Check out fiber stats. Awesome histogram on third shearing! Conformation: Albus is upright, straight, and demonstrates strong bone structure. His photos tell the story. Albus now has cria on the ground with our partner farm in Wisconsin - they are reportedly the best cria born at RobAsia. We have confirmed pregnancies here in Texas with the first cria due in early November. He is standing at Blue Gate from November 2015 until May 2016. Limited outside breedings to approved females. Females confirmed bred to Albus available for sale.