Little Creek Farm Alpacas

Little Creek Farm Alpacas We breed top quality Huacayas from bloodlines with demonstrated prepotency for producing animals which retain their fine fiber characteristics.

Pattern breeders, meet Snowmass Styx. He's a rare-patterned show quality Snowmass Divine Optics son out of one of our to...
06/11/2026

Pattern breeders, meet Snowmass Styx. He's a rare-patterned show quality Snowmass Divine Optics son out of one of our top black dams. He has a striking black and brown patterned fleece with a true black head and neck, lower legs and tail. His body has a varied, almost tortoiseshell like pattern of black, brown and fawn fleece with the highest contrast appearing along his topline. We believe he will also roan out this coming year as we see some silvering in his neck. Grid sample OFDA 100 histogram at approximately 11 months: 18.3/3.8/20.7/0.6 with 137mm unshorn growth. He's has inherited an Ee aa genotype of some sort from his parents - different mutations to ASIP may also be involved in producing this pattern. He'll be on our fall show string if he is not on yours. Inquires to [email protected]

Black ASIP genotypes at the POC: On the left, the ee a2a3 Oblivion daughter Snowmass Kandy Kane (lot 43); top right, th...
05/26/2026

Black ASIP genotypes at the POC: On the left, the ee a2a3 Oblivion daughter Snowmass Kandy Kane (lot 43); top right, the EE a1a3 Royal Wave daughter Snowmass Royal Fantasy XX (Lot 20); and bottom right, the Ee a2a2 Braxon daughter Accoyo America Charlotte (Lot 27.) We have great black service sire options for all of these females!

Can't attend the Parade of Champions but don't want to miss a great animal for your breeding program if it sells at the ...
05/25/2026

Can't attend the Parade of Champions but don't want to miss a great animal for your breeding program if it sells at the right price for you? Here's your plan: 1) Set up an account to live stream and online bid with DVAuction https://www.dvauction.com/ or phone bid with Silver Penn Sales (724-554-2013); and 2) contact us to have Amanda Vandenbosch review animals on your behalf at the auction at no charge to you. Then bid remotely during the auction or if you want set up a "not to exceed" bid with Silver Penn and go about your day confident that if the price is right that animal will be yours! Saturday May 30 is auction day! (Clockwise from top left: Lot 28, Lot2, Lot 5, Lot 1, Lot 21. And plenty more beauties where these came from...)

The most useful breeding advice I ever read came from a cattle breeder who said the best way to improve your program was...
05/25/2026

The most useful breeding advice I ever read came from a cattle breeder who said the best way to improve your program was not to picture the perfect animal and breed towards that ideal, but instead study your culls to see why you were culling them, and then breed to improve that trait or traits. Intrigued, I looked at my notes to see why I had chosen to NOT use or sell the males I culled from my program as fiber animals and found a consistent pattern: I culled animals for a lack of density, too much hair, and/or an unattractive head style. So I focused on those things rather than breeding for the "complete package" every time. And sure enough in the years since density and uniformity have improved substantially on average in my herd, and head styles are less variable, without any loss in overall quality. I think that modest-seeming perspective shift ended up being a big deal for us - we made faster progress with it. Wish I could credit the breeder who wrote the article but I can't find it anymore.

This may be controversial, but we think white animals of this caliber belong in every color breeding program. White an...
05/22/2026

This may be controversial, but we think white animals of this caliber belong in every color breeding program. White and beige animals represent over a quarter of all animals being registered and are a repository of elite fleece genetics. Exclude them and you'll make your breeding program less competitive. These you can buy now, at the POC. Clockwise from top left: Lot 2, Lot 14, Lot 32, Lot 34, Lot 21, Lot 10. When you check the catalog you'll find even more. https://paradeofchampionsauction.com/

A reminder of why we like staple length in a juvi even if it means a silky, open-looking first fleece: the left image is...
05/21/2026

A reminder of why we like staple length in a juvi even if it means a silky, open-looking first fleece: the left image is Snowmass Best Bet's first fleece, the middle is his third, and the right is his eighth. Best Bet wasn't much of one in the show ring: he placed third in his single outing as yearling, with the judge noting an apparent lack of density and a bolder style, both impressions that were a function of the exceptional staple growth he was producing at that time. As his fleece growth slowed into maturity, its crimp frequency increased and his true density became more apparent. Now at age eight he continues to produce a fine fleece with "long" processing length -- that, and some of the best animals we have ever produced at Snowmass. Don't be to quick to judge those silky first fleeces!

We are breeding the no-dilution female at left to the national champion white at right to produce an extraordinary fawn ...
05/19/2026

We are breeding the no-dilution female at left to the national champion white at right to produce an extraordinary fawn -- and we're selling the dam! She's Lot 9 in the POC, and a great chance to buy our best cria of 2027 :-).

How's this for luxurious abundance on the grading table. We prize Accoyo America Polar Storm for the density, brightnes...
05/15/2026

How's this for luxurious abundance on the grading table. We prize Accoyo America Polar Storm for the density, brightness, staple length and excellent head styles he imparts to his offspring and later descendants. Shown here: POC lot 21, the Polar Storm daughter Delightful Storm, on the left, and the granddaughter Divine Romance on the right. Both are outstanding and would be great choices to bring the Oblivion line into your breeding program via your service sire choice.. Delightful Storm covers black with the a1 allele.

We're very proud of the two black females we have in the POC auction: On the left is the fleece of the no-dilution EE a...
05/13/2026

We're very proud of the two black females we have in the POC auction: On the left is the fleece of the no-dilution EE a1a3 female Royal Fantasy XX (Lot 20) and on the right is the deep black Ee a2a2 Accoyo America Charlotte (Lot 27). Both fleeces will impress with their volume, uniformity and brightness-- your decision may come down to the varied bloodlines each bring to the table. We can pair either of them with a no-dilution black male to produce a black cria for your program in 2027. Contact us with questions.

Loved our Supreme Dark Champion male Snowmass Heavenly Bet at Nationals? Buy his sister. Andean Sunshine's fleece is d...
05/12/2026

Loved our Supreme Dark Champion male Snowmass Heavenly Bet at Nationals? Buy his sister. Andean Sunshine's fleece is dense, bright, fine and impressively uniform, with a 17.9% CV on her grid (!!) histogram this year. She's Lot 17 in the Parade of Champions. Come to the event and get your hands on this fleece. If you can't attend in person Amanda VandenBosch will be there assess Andean Sunshine and all the other auction animals on your behalf -- just let Amanda, Silver Penn Sales or any consignor know that you are interested in this free service and we'll get you set up.

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