Huacaya Alpacas breeding Stock

Taddeo is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and has just gotten better and better with time! We are obsessed with the fleece of this herdsire who was a RESERVE CHAMPION in white at 9 months, 15 months, and 21 months, and is also a halter COLOR CHAMPION and MAPACA Fleece JUDGES' CHOICE winner! Taddeo's fleece is GORGEOUS with great density, exquisite architecture, small bundles, and a buttery, soft hand that I can't stop touching and looking at nightly! "Taddeo" means "praised" and "desired" and he does his moniker proud. Taddeo's first cria, Morning SKY's Taddeo's Piccolo, is square, incredibly dense, and has volumes of bright white fleece with teeny, tiny bundles that earned her a 2nd place at the 2016 Buckeye Alpaca Show, standing over the cria of a high ticket herdsire. His subsequent crias are also beauties - and female! Morning SKY's Elena placed 3rd at the 2016 AOA National Show. This handsome male is sired by multiple Champion, Alpaca Palace's Houdini, and his dam, Morning SKY's Grande Alera, is a multiple ribbon winner by Grand Alero, a 3/4 Accoyo Grand Master son. The combination of these genetics is what gives Taddeo such tremendous density, consistent and exceptional fleece character from topknot to tail to toe, soft handle and strong conformation. Taddeo was awarded his FIRST RESERVE CHAMPION banner at 9 months of age and his SECOND RESERVE banner at the 2012 MABA Alpaca Celebration in another large class! (Color went to a 6 year old male.) This male has fineness, density, a buttery handle to his fleece and gorgeous crimp. A THIRD RESERVE CHAMPION banner was awarded to Taddeo at the 2013 Buckeye Alpaca Show, along with WINNING the JUNIOR HERDSIRE class where the three judges called his fleece "gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!" COLOR CHAMPION at the 2013 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase; we are thrilled! Judge Kevin O'Leary examined Taddeo's fleece everywhere from front to back, clear down to his belly and down to his knees and found the outstanding character to be the same all the way across and down along with great density and fineness. He is a white to be watched (and an outstanding breeding choice if you are looking for excellence.) JUDGES' CHOICE in the large 2013 MAPACA fleece show for Best Brightness; his dam, Alera, won the same award in 2007! Taddeo also placed 1st in his large halter class at the 2013 MAPACA Jubilee. Taddeo also garnered a 2nd place ribbon at the 2015 AOA National Fleece Conference with his third fleece. Taddeo's offspring have great density and his buttery hand. Pin him to your "Herdsires to Use" Pinterest board and contact Morning SKY Farm to book a breeding!

I've never tried the process of raku, but admire the unexpected possibilities and beauty of the resulting markings and colors. This was one of those breeding outcomes where you rather hoped for a boy - with the same possibilities and beauty of desired color and markings, and we got one - a very nice one in the color for which we'd also hoped - grey! And, the gorgeous fleece and conformation qualities of both sire and dam have combined beautifully. Morning SKY's Paulina's Raku is the offspring of two stunning and prolific greys who have won Judges' Choice banners in halter and fleece competitions. Both parents are Futurity Color Champions, too! Raku's first offspring, Morning SKY's Raku's Mercer, is a strong, healthy brown female with bright, crimpy fleece. Mercer was awarded a second place ribbon at the 2025 Buckeye Alpaca Show, with judge Wade Gease complimenting her “very long staple length and very stamped-out fleece style”. Buckeye Judge Amanda VandenBosch loved Mercer's fleece, praising her soft handle and uniformity from shoulder to rump and down to her extremities. Raku's dam, Morning SKY's Paulina is the first grey in the US (in 2012) to be awarded a Judges' Choice banner in halter competition, and the only grey female in the US for ten years running. She also received a Judge's Choice banner for Best Hand at the large MAPACA fleece show. Paulina began her show career at 6 months of age with Color Champion banners that continued through her second year of showing. Among many other awards, her dam, Morning SKY's Royale Ainee (also grey), took a first place at the World Fleece Conference in 2009. Raku's sire, Quixotic's Man of Steel, is the third grey to win a Judge's Choice banner in halter and also had a stellar show career over multiple years. His grandsire, Quixotic, won numerous awards over his career as evidenced by his photo. At the 2020 Buckeye Fall Fest, Raku placed second in a yearling class. (Covid prevented him from showing as a juvenile.) Judge Laurel Shouvlin commented that Raku was well grown for his age, very well put together, demonstrated good proportion and had a fine, very soft handling fleece with a good degree of brightness. Judge Amanda VandenBosch also spoke of his softness of hand at the 2020 Buckeye Alpaca Show. As a 2 year old at the 2022 MABA Alpaca Celebration, judge Robin Nasemann complimented his very fluid conformation and uniform staple from skin to tip as he awarded Raku a first place blue ribbon. Raku also earned a first place ribbon under judge Diana Timmerman at the 2022 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase, at the 2022 MA & PA Alpaca Pronk. Contact us at [email protected] to book a breeding to your beautiful females and add Raku’s desirable grey genetics from two Judges' Choice halter and fleece banner winners to your herd!

KEEP AN EYE ON THIS UP-AND-COMER! Morning SKY's Nazca is the outstanding cross of two of our herdsires - the very dense, extremely bright, buttery fleece of fleece Judges' Choice and halter Color Champion, Morning SKY's Taddeo (an outstanding Houdini son), and the fineness and density of the late Accoyo Angelis from Heather's Acre's phenomenal "Star" line. Those notable herdsires, combined with the our fine line's Morning SKY's Elena, produced this gorgeous Junior herdsire. Nazca's brightness can be noticed even from a distance. His grandsire, Morning SKY's Taddeo, and his great granddam, Morning SKY's Grande Alera, each won Judges' Choice banners years apart at the large MAPACA Jubilee Fleece shows for Best Brightness - Alera's out of 186 fleeces! Nazca's fleece is heavenly, and I can't help but put my hands on it whenever an opportunity presents itself. When he comes of age, Nazca will certainly be a desired herdsire for improved fleece qualities, conformation and very calm temperament. Keep an eye on this young male and book your breedings when the time comes! Only shown once, he took 4th place in the 2019 PAOBA Breeders Showcase in a class absolutely loaded with outstanding white males - a situation that was highly complimented by renowned judge, Jude Anderson. In our books, he has always been, and always will be a winner!