SOLD: Silver Knight (chin doe)

 Somerhill Silver Knight (chin doe) 8 weeks, very promising type.  Wide shoulders, round butt, maybe a little hollow in the loin, but still very young.   Really good density, sheen, texture coming in.  Sweet, docile baby.  $100  (MRR Winter Knight x Sloans Stella)  A-BbchdcD-E-

Stella is for sale SOLD

Sloan's Stella (Somerhill on both sides of pedigree) will be available as soon as she weans her litter in about a month.   She is a dark, rich chestnut,  registered, 2 legs, has successfully raised 2 litters for me. Born 5/2019.   She has good wool regrowth, is pluckable, and has a pleasant temperament.  Carries chinchilla.  $100.   Could be delivered to the MAC/UARC triple specialty in Michigan in June.   Speak up, and you can reserve a copper buck to make a nice breeding pair.

3 week old cuties

Knight and Stella's babies are growing up.  There is a black buck, chinchilla doe(?), ermine buck, and chestnut doe.  All but the chestnut will be available in a few weeks.  She may be staying with me. The ermine as a wooler, and possibly the black, too.  I think he may be a self chin.  If you are interested in Stella, if I keep her daughter, Stella will be available.  She is registered, has 2 GC legs, and has raised 2  nice litters.  She is the chinchilla carrier. 

 

New babies!

MRR Winter Knight (rew) and Sloan's Stella welcome 4 newbies today.  There are 2 black agoutis, 1black, and an ermine.(or pearl?)  The agoutis could be chestnuts or chinchillas; we'll have to wait a week or 2 to find out.

 

Chinchilla: The Next Generation

This is Somerhill Faro, a chocolate chinchilla doe.   
Sire: Somerhill Spook (chin)
Dam:  Somerhill Teslintoo (choc chin) 
She is the latest in a long line of chinchillas here, and will
be joining my show string for 2021.  

 

Chinchilla breeding pair for sale - SOLD

 Available in early December.  Breeding pair of chinchillas - Somerhill Spook - black chin - dam is GrCH Dolly Rock Farm Debleicks Fury (rew).   Spook is 2 years old, proven sire, registered.    Somerhill Teslintoo - chocolate chin.  She is also 2, registered, and has raised 2 litters.   Her most recent has chocolate chinchillas and REW in it.   Both were recently plucked and growing in nicely.   The pair is priced at $150.

Somerhill Spook

Somerhill Teslintoo

Their most recent litter - chocolate chins and REWs.

Happy Halloween!

Somerhill Spook (black chin) and Somerhill Teslintoo (choc chin) have a new Halloween litter.  There are 6; 2 choc chins, 1 black self chin, and 3 that will be either ermine or pearl.    This is Spook's 2nd birthday; his  too was a Halloween litter.  
 

Woolers for sale (SOLD)

2 bucks, chocolate and black, ready for their new fiber home near the end of the month.

The chinchillas are here

It has been a year and a half since the last litter of chins was born here - and now they are parents themselves!   Somerhill Spook, an back chin buck (Somerhill Quicksilver x GrCH DRF/Deblieks Fury)  and Somerhill Teslintoo, a chocolate chin doe (Quicksilver x Somerhill Teslin)  have six newborns.  3 are black chins and 3 are chocolate chins.

Tess and Spook as juniors

Expected 1-1-2020

For the first time in over a year, we are expecting a litter!   Belle is due on New Year's Day.  These kits should be awesome.  There should be both black and chocolate chinchillas available from this breeding.

Somerhill Santolino (chocolate chinchilla)

GrCH Somerhill Belle Haven (chinchilla)

Wish they all could be California girls

This is Somerhill California, the foundation of all my current color lines - red, pearl, & chinchilla.
She is 6.5 years old, and still just as beautiful, and cranks out a 4 inch, pluckable coat every
4-5 months.  

My latest chinchillas

Somerhill Teslintoo (Quicksilver x Teslin) is a chocolate chinchilla doe.   Somerhill Spook (Quicksilver x Fury) is a black chinchilla buck.  They are both nearly 3 months old now, and I have high hopes for them at shows this spring.  They will be my main entry for the national angora specialty show in April.

The latest chinchillas

Wraith (black doe) & Haunt (chocolate buck)

Chinchilla bucks (Spook and Specter)

Teslintoo.  (choc chin doe)  

More chinchillas

Quicksilver and Fury kits, born 10-31-18

Somerhill Santolino

This cute little guy is Santolino, a chocolate chin buck from
Athens Spikenard and GrCH Somerhill Silver City.

GrCH Silver City (chinchilla doe)

Athens Spikenard (chocolate chinchilla buck)

Fury's babies

Fury's babies are opening their eyes now.  She has 2 reds and 3 coppers by Russet.
The little guy in the center back is a foster chinchilla from Silver City and Spikenard.
If I were going to guess, it looks like 2 copper bucks, one copper doe, 2 red does,
and the little chinchilla is a doe, too.

Wool-A-Rama Winner

Finishing her show career with a BANG!, Somerhill Belle Haven was
Best of Breed for all four shows at the Wool-a-Rama last weekend. 
She now has 9 GC legs, and is retired at the tender age of 6 months.
This is my third year for the show, and the third time one of my chinchilla
does swept the BOB in Satin Angoras.   2 years ago, her grandmother,
Somerhill Silver City did it, and last year, Somerhill Driftwood did.

Happy Birthday, California!

                                 Happy 5th birthday to Somerhill California, foundation of my 

                                             current herd, whether red, pearl or chinchilla.  

Novelty Skein

Spin from alternating bands of chinchilla Satin angora, black alpaca, chocolate
chinchilla, and brown alpaca.  The angora was seconds, so spun thick and
 thin for added texture.   It made 132 yards.

GrCH Somerhill Belle Haven(pending)

"The whole package!"