Foundation Herd

Our first alpacas arrived at our farm in May 2004 three breeding females, Suricaya Simone, Nichole and Arunvale Tajo. They are mid brown, fawn and black - our aim being to produce high quality coloured alpacas apart from looking wonderful in the paddocks. To keep them company we also added two geldings Jackel’s Topsy – rose grey- and Rodney’s Valentine – white. We have a wonderful picture of them all shortly after they arrived.

Their different characters could easily be seen from the beginning - Tajo is very haughty and aloof, Simone extremely calm and gentle with Nichole very easily upset and fairly vocal when it comes to shearing time! Jackel’s Topsy was the boss and protector and Rodney’s Valentine his inseparable friend.

Our First Cria

The girls produced three lovely cria in August and September 2004 Campsie Lauren, Campsie Karl and Campsie Thor.

Campsie Lauren

Campsie Lauren is a lovely fawn colour and has a very inquisitive nature, a good head inherited from her dam Simone and a very fine fleece with good crimp from her sire Accoyo Tolkien.

Show results:

Reserve Female Junior Champion Northumberland 2005

1st Intermediate Fawn Female
Northumberland 2006

2nd Intermediate Fawn Fleece
National Show Kelso 2006

Date of Birth: 13th August 2004

Campsie Karl

Campsie Karl is a very much calmer boy than his dam Nichole with very nice conformation and a lovely white fleece with good density, fineness and brightness through his sire Aztec Dream.

Show results:

3rd Junior White Male Northumberland 2005

1st Junior Male Composite Class Penrith 2005

3rd Intermediate White Male Composite Class Scottish National Show

3rd Intermediate White Fleece National Show Kelso 2006
Date of Birth: 26th September 2004

Campsie Thor

As for Campsie Thor he is jet black like his dam Tajo with a strong personality, especially for stubbornness, with a fine fleece with good crimp. His sire was Arunvale’s Copper’s Classic.

Show results:

1st Junior Black Male Northumberland 2005

2nd Intermediate Black Male Northumberland 2006

1st Intermediate Black Male
Composite Class Scottish National Show Kelso 2006

1st Intermediate Black Fleece National Show Kelso 2006

Date of Birth: 29th September 2004

Northumberland Show and Penrith Show

We took our three youngest to our first show The Northumberland County Show in May 2005 and we had great success. Our star was Campsie Lauren who was Reserve Junior Female Champion, Campsie Thor was First in the Junior Black Class and Campsie Karl was third in the Junior White Class.

We had further show success at the Penrith Agricultural Show with Campsie Karl taking First in the Junior Shorn Class and Campsie Thor taking Second in the same class. The Border Union Show at Kelso Campsie Lauren took First in the Junior Female Class, Campsie Karl First in the Junior Male and Campsie Thor Second.

Our Growing Herd

In October 2005 we brought 8 girls and 2 stud males in from Canada – they came from two breeders in Ontario Nancy Carr of Silver Cloud Alpacas and Terry Hilborn of Charbonnel Alpacas. One of the benefits of buying from smaller breeders is that our new alpacas were very used to human contact and were easy to handle and integrated well with our existing family.

Charbonnel Ronnie of Campsie

Ronnie stands tall and proud with a great head and a fine mid brown dense fleece.

Ronnie has a really good nature which he has passed on the his offspring.

Born 22nd August 2002 in Ontario Canada

Sire: Jolimont Peruvian Pedro
Dam: Rosealie

Ronnie’s father Jolimont Peruvian Pedro has proven himself to produce offspring with exceptional fineness, density and brightness - Ronnie has these traits in abundance his stats at September 05 were AFD 22.0 SD 4.1 CV18.6 and 3.3%>30.
2006 AFD 23.5 SD 4.00 CV 17.00 and 5.1%>30
Ronnie was screened in Canada by the BAS in September 2005 and arrived in Scotland in October 2005. He is CLAA and BAS registered.

Show Results:

2003 Alpaca Ontario Show – Reserve Champion Male Dark

Ronnie has produced some lovely prize winning cria with his great personality and exceptional fleece quality we are very excited to have him as one of our herd sires.

Silver Cloud Lakota of Campsie

Lakota is very macho and likes to make sure that the males around him know who's boss.

Born 12th April 2001 in Ontario Canada

Sire: Jolimont Peruvian Alpamayo http://www.rainbowforestacres.com/mainframe3.asp
Dam: MMR Lambada

Both his parents have exceptionally fine fleece – his famous sire Alpamayo imported from Australia -with a price ticket of $120,000 in 1998 - still has a 22micron count. His mother had an AFD 21.5, SD 4.6 CV 21.5% and 4.3%>30 microns at the age of three.
Lakota’s own stats in September 05 were AFD 24.1 SD 4.0 CV 16.6 and 6.0%>30 microns.
2006 AFD 24.1 SD 3.7 CV 15.4 and 4.6%> 30
Lakota was screened in Canada bt the BAS in September 2005 and arrived in Scotland in October 2005. He is ARI, CLAA and BAS registered.

Show Results:

2002 Alpaca Ontario Show – 2nd in combined white and light junior male class

Lakota has produced some lovely cria with fine and bright fleeces.

SCA Tulia of Campsie

D.O.B.: July 12, 2003 White
BAS, CLAA and ARI registered

Sire: WRA Peruvian Sancho
Dam: Jolimont Peruvian Talara

Tulia is a very calm alpaca inherited from her sire and just gets on with her own thing.

Full Peruvian; beautiful conformation; dense crimpy fine fleece. Fibre stats from 2004: AFD 23.2, SD 3.7, CV 15.6%, 3.2 % > 30. Her dam has retained her fine fleece with age (AFD of 19.9 at 7 years of age). She has been bred to Canadian Silver Cloud Armani for a 2006 cria. http://www.silvercloudalpacas.com/Stud_service.htm

SCA Nevada of Campsie

D.O.B.: Oct. 12, 2003 White

BAS and CLAA registered

Sire: WRA Peruvian Jericho
Dam: QA Snow White

Nevada is a big girl and very good natured.

3/4 Peruvian, 1/4 Chilean; her dam has retained a very fine fleece with age. Good stocky conformation; fine crimpy fleece, beautiful head. She has been bred to Canadian AH Patronne for a 2006 cria http://www.silvercloudalpacas.com/Stud_service.htm

WRA Peruvian Daisy of Campsie

D.O.B: Oct. 9 2003 Fawn

BAS, CLAA and ARI registered

Sire: AH Patronne
Dam: WRA Peruvian Danae

Daisy is a very friendly girl with a lovely head and a fine crimpy fleece. Her father AH Patronne has exceptional fine fleece which at the age of 5 is still only AFD 21.3 SD 4.9 CV23.0 %>30 4.6. Her fibre stats in Sept 2005 were AFD 22.5 SD 5.5 CV 20.2 %>30 6.5.

Show Results:

1st Adult Fawn Female National Show 2006

1st Adult Fawn Female Northumberland 2006

Charbonnel Serena of Campsie

D.O.B: May. 28 2004 White

BAS, CLAA and ARI registered

Sire: Atlas Augusto
Dam: Sari

Serena is another laid back girl and has exceptional staple length, great crimp combined with fineness - a wonderful fleece. Her fibre stats in Sept 2005
were AFD 22.2 SD 4.2 CV 18.9 %>30 3.7

Show results:

Supreme Champion Most Valuable Commercial Fleece at the Scottish National Fleece Show at the Border Union Show 2007

1st Adult White Female Nothumberland 2006

National Fleece Show Kelso 2006 her fleece was judged as the Reserve Supreme Champion for the most valuable Commercial Fleece by Hilary Redden of the Fibre Lab.

Under the BAS rules she was placed 2nd in the Adult White Fleece class.

Silver Cloud Teagan of Campsie

BAS and ARI registered

Sire: WRA Peruvian Jericho
Dam: Jolimont Peruvian Talara

Full Peruvian and another big girl with great conformation and beautiful head. She is the half sister of Tulia through her dam and half sister to Nevada through her sire. She has a wonderful fine fleece with good crimp and is a really good natured girl.

Show results:

4th Intermediate White Female Northunberland 2006

Date of Birth: 22nd June 2004

SCA Juno of Campsie

D.O.B. July 8, 2004 Light Fawn

BAS, CLAA and ARI registered

Sire: AH Patronne
Dam: Q.A. Princess Jasmine (black Chilean)

Another nice personality with good conformation, dense crimpy fleece and really likes her food and will push the others away if not supervised. She is the half sister of Daisy through her sire.

SCA Solana of Campsie

D.O.B. Sept 12, 2004 Light Fawn/White

BAS and CLAA registered

Sire: Silver Cloud Talano
Dam: QA Snow White

Solana is a real favourite – she is so sweet and has exceptional fine fleece AFD 17.8 SD 3.2 CV 18 %>30 0.5. Nevada is her half sister through Snow White.

Charbonnel Marisa of Campsie

Not the best picture with her ears down!

D.O.B. Sept 24, 2004 Medium Fawn
BAS, CLAA and ARI registered

Sire: Silver Cloud Lakota of Campsie
Dam: Charbonnel Amber

Marisa is very sweet too and her sire is one of our own stud males Lakota. She has a good dense fleece with crimp and fineness.