Cosmo

Cosmo has produced 23 crias, all suri. Cosmo is out of the well-known herd sire, Empresario, who was 1st Place Suri Get of Sire @ ’99 Eastern Livestock Show and 2nd Place Suri Get of Sire at ’99 AOBA. Cosmo possesses perfect suri phenotype and male presence standing at 37 inches to the withers and 195 lbs. His dam, Cecelia, is a vicuna colored Bolivian owned by Dr. Gail Campbell at Ameripaca.

Cosmo is well locked with a bright fleece and has produced colored crias, including true black. He has a wonderful inquisitive and trusting personality that he passes onto his crias. Cosmo is the sire of Rewind (06 White Color Champion at AWE and 2nd place 2 yr white male at ’06 AOBA competing in 3rd fleece), Ego Boost (2nd place TB yearling @ 04 AOBA), Superfine (2nd place DB @ 2003AOBA), Lots of Locks, Lots of Luster and Marilyn Monroe (16 micron). Rewind had the lowest Mean Scale Frequency (MSF) in the Tillman’s study of suri fiber using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Rewind has just 4.5 cuticular scales per 100 micron and a 19.1 micron fleece at 24 mos.  

Awards Received
1st Place in class and 1st Place Bred and Owned, 2000 Frederick Show.
1st Place Suri Full Fleece white/light, 1999 Eastern Livestock Show.
2nd Place (at 6mos old) 1999 All American Futurity.

Fleece Analysis: AFD = 22.1, SD = 4.8, CV = 21.7, >30u = 4.8%

High Interest

Virgin Fleece

2nd fleece

3rd fleece

High Interest has densely packed 1/8-inch thick locks and has produced five 5.0-5.5 pound heavily skirted blankets in a row (7lbs unskirted). He was the yearling Champion Dark Male at the 2002 N.W. Alpaca Showcase and second (shorn) to Kobe of PVA at the Alpaca Odyssey. His significant crias include Tillman’s Life of the Party ($31,000), Color in Motion ($30,000) and Luscious ($29,000). Tillman’s Life of the Party was Brown Color Champion at the 2006 Suri Network Fleece Show in Estes Park, CO. Her fleece had the highest score (83 points) at the largest Suri fleece show ever held (300 entries). Life of the Party placed 3rd Dark Brown juvenile females at ’06 AOBA and Luscious was 2nd place true black juvenile at the '06 A.W.E. High Interest offers density, coverage, luster and uniform fleece on a compact frame.

High Interest’s sire, Inspiration, is one of the most influential males of the final Bolivian importation. Inspiration (TB) has produced AOBA Champions Ga Ga, the juvenile fawn Reserve Champion female in 2001 and SuperSuris Jamu, 2005 AOBA 2yr old True Black Champion. 

Awards Received
Yearling Champion Dark Male at 2002 N.W. Alpaca Showcase.

Handsome Devil

Handsome Devil has a well-locked, lustrous dense fleece on a perfectly conformed and balanced frame. His dam, Sal, is one of Tillman’s best producing Bolivians. Handsome Devil’s maternal line is impressive as Sal has been amazing no matter who she is bred to and a couple of her outstanding get include Tillman’s The Big Kahuna and Luster Supreme. His sire, Pperuvian Miguel is a well-regarded Peruvian owned by Dr. Dick and Nancy Walker of Super Suris. Miguel was 1st Place Get of Sire at the 2001 AOBA National Show.Handsome Devil is 23.6 micron with a Mean Scale Frequency of 5.8 scales/100 microns on his virgin fleece and 4.9/100 microns on his second fleece, one of the best of the Tillman’s Electron Microscopy study. This is an amazingly bright fleece. Peruvian whites average 7.5 scales/100 microns. (The lower the number, the brighter the fleece.) Handsome Devil produced 4.5 lb skirted blankets on his 2nd and 3rd fleeces.