A Zephyrus Son With a Patterned Legacy of His Own

Mr. Butterscotch gives us the opportunity to follow an already documented Appy Archives line into another generation. His sire, My Peruvian Zephyrus, is featured in AA-002, where we explored Zephyrus, his pedigree, and his place within early Appaloosa and Harlequin lines.

Born September 15, 2005, Mr. Butterscotch was registered Beige with Medium Fawn secondary color. His registry photograph shows visible appaloosa patterning not reflected by his primary color designation alone. His production record makes him even more significant.

Mr. Butterscotch produced 14 registered offspring, eight females and six males. Seven of those 14 have been identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin. Pattern continued into later generations through more than one branch, including a particularly strong line through Elderwood’s Boomerang and a much larger descendant family through Tennessee Valley Tia.

The Tia branch also gives us something different. It allows us to follow an established Appaloosa/Harlequin family both before and after the introduction of Pinto patterning, creating an unusually clear example of why Appaloosa/Harlequin, and Speckled/Broken Pinto phenotypes should not automatically be grouped together simply because all can produce spotted animals.

Mr. Butterscotch at a Glance

Registered Name: Mr. Butterscotch
AOA Registry Number: 30320970
Breed: Huacaya
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: September 15, 2005
Date of Death: September 23, 2019
Pattern: Appaloosa
Sire: My Peruvian Zephyrus
Dam: Kalabasa D700 AOA
Registered Offspring: 14
Female Offpsring: 8
Male Offpsring: 6
Identified Appaloosa/Harlequin Offspring: 7

Historical Significance

Mr. Butterscotch is a direct son of My Peruvian Zephyrus, whose history is already documented in AA-002. Rather than repeat that research here, Mr. Butterscotch allows us to move the Zephyrus family forward and examine what happened across another relatively large group of offspring.

Seven of Mr. Butterscotch’s 14 registered offspring have been identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin:

• Tennessee Valley Tia
• Howling Hill Jessica Rabbit
• Howling Hill Francesca Fiore
• Howling Hill Oolong
• Epic X Dalmore
• ELWD’s Loosahatchie Rage
• Elderwood’s Boomerang

That is seven of 14, or 50 percent, of his registered offspring. The pattern was not limited to one offspring, one sex, or one later family. Patterned sons and daughters appear throughout Mr. Butterscotch’s production record, and multiple branches continued into later generations.

Just as importantly, not every patterned offspring went on to produce additional patterned animals. Several produced only registered solid offspring, while others never reproduced. Those outcomes are worth documenting too. They reinforce something seen repeatedly throughout the Appy Archives: even within established patterned families, expression is not perfectly predictable.

Appy Origins Connection

Mr. Butterscotch’s connection to the larger Appy Origins research comes through his sire, My Peruvian Zephyrus. Zephyrus is the son of DPA Quetzal and My Peruvian Zuleika. Through Zuleika, the pedigree leads directly to 4Peruvian Magnifico 6055, one of the historical lines being followed as part of the Appy Origins research.

Because Zephyrus already has a dedicated Appy Archives entry, the purpose of Mr. Butterscotch’s Archive is not to establish that pedigree again. Instead, his production record adds another generation of evidence to a family already documented for repeated patterned production.

My Peruvian Zephyrus → Mr. Butterscotch → multiple Appaloosa/Harlequin offspring → continuing patterned descendants

Production Record

Mr. Butterscotch produced 14 registered offspring between 2009 and 2020.

Seven have been identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin, while seven have not been identified with an Appaloosa/Harlequin phenotype. Six of his offspring have no registered offspring of their own: Butterscotch Chip, Howling Hill Oolong, Epic X Dalmore, Elderwood’s Rockefeller, Taffy of Gibraltar Bay Alpacas, and Sassafras of Gibraltar Bay Alpacas. Several additional branches continued only through registered solid descendants. Enchanted Hill Cookie produced two registered offspring, both registered as solid. Enchanted Hill Snickers produced one registered offspring, also solid. Two identified patterned daughters, Howling Hill Jessica Rabbit and Howling Hill Francesca Fiore, each produced one registered offspring. Both are registered as solid. ELWD’s Geez Louise produced two registered offspring, both solid. Her daughter SunsetMtn Easter Lilly later produced Tango at SunsetMtn, who is also registered as solid. ELWD’s Loosahatchie Rage, an identified Appaloosa/Harlequin son of Mr. Butterscotch, produced two registered offspring. Both are registered as solid.

Two branches stand apart from the rest of the production record: Elderwood’s Boomerang and Tennessee Valley Tia. Boomerang produced three registered offspring, and all three have been identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin. Tia developed into the largest continuing branch of the family and provides an especially interesting comparison between continued Appaloosa/Harlequin expression and the later introduction of pinto.

Complete Production Record

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The Boomerang Branch

Elderwood’s Boomerang represents one of the clearest continuations of Mr. Butterscotch’s patterned production.

Boomerang has three registered offspring:

• SunsetMtn Toffee Spots
• SunsetMtn’s Apollo
• SunsetMtn’s Prince Charming

All three have been identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin.

While other patterned offspring of Mr. Butterscotch produced solid descendants or did not reproduce, Boomerang produced patterned offspring in all three of his registered cria. His branch therefore provides another independent continuation of pattern from Mr. Butterscotch into the next generation.

The Tennessee Valley Tia Branch

Tennessee Valley Tia became the largest continuing branch descending from Mr. Butterscotch.

Tia produced six registered offspring:

• Hercules of IPH, identified Harlequin
• IPH America, identified Speckled/Broken Pinto
• Explorer of IPH, registered solid
• Columbus of IPH, registered solid
• IPH She’s a Mystery, registered solid
• Milady de Winter of IPH, registered solid

Of those six, only Hercules of IPH and IPH America currently have registered offspring. Those two branches are especially useful because they developed very differently.

Hercules of IPH: Continuing the Appaloosa/Harlequin Line

Hercules of IPH is an identified Harlequin son of Tennessee Valley Tia.

He has 11 registered offspring, including at least four identified Appaloosa or Harlequin descendants:

• Saint Paddy of AppyAA
• DVAF’s Alpacachino
• DVAF’s Javachip
• Rare Gem Mr Bigglesworth

This creates a continuing patterned line across multiple generations:

My Peruvian Zephyrus → Mr. Butterscotch → Tennessee Valley Tia → Hercules of IPH → multiple Appaloosa/Harlequin offspring

The importance of the Hercules branch is not simply that another patterned animal appeared. Hercules produced pattern repeatedly among multiple offspring, allowing the Butterscotch and Tia family to continue well beyond the original generation.

The Introduction of Pinto

The second continuing branch through Tennessee Valley Tia tells a different story.

Tia was bred to Tachometer, a speckled/broken pinto. Their daughter, IPH America, inherited the pinto phenotype from her father. That distinction is intentional.

America is not being classified as Appaloosa or Harlequin simply because she has spots. Her phenotype follows the speckled/broken pinto style we have been documenting separately, including more defined patches and freckling, booted feet, and heavier color covering the muzzle and face.

America later produced OTRR Maximus. Maximus again presents as a speckled/broken pinto phenotypically. He carries considerably heavier freckling than his dam, but the overall style remains consistent.

This gives us a particularly useful three-generation visual sequence:

Tachometer → IPH America → OTRR Maximus

Speckled/Broken Pinto → Speckled/Broken Pinto → Speckled/Broken Pinto

The distinction becomes even more important when these animals are viewed in different fleece lengths. Smaller freckles and patches can be obscured by full fleece and become much more obvious after shearing. An animal may therefore appear less heavily marked in one photograph without the underlying pattern actually being different.

The pedigree also allows us to compare two branches from the same dam.

Through Hercules, Tia continued the recognizable Appaloosa/Harlequin phenotype already present in the Mr. Butterscotch family.

Through America, pinto had been introduced through Tachometer, and the resulting branch developed the speckled/broken pinto appearance seen again in Maximus.

We cannot use this pedigree alone to establish the exact genetic interaction responsible for those differences. Without a confirmed genetic test, we do not believe it is appropriate to claim that pinto overrides, masks, or genetically changes Appaloosa or Harlequin. What we can document is the result.

The introduction of pinto into this established Appaloosa/Harlequin family was followed by a distinctly different style of pattern that continued into the next generation. It also illustrates why mixing these pattern families can reduce phenotypic predictability and make later descendants more difficult to classify visually.

For the Appy Archives, this is an important distinction. Not every alpaca with spots should automatically be classified as Appaloosa or Harlequin.

The Tia family allows us to see both pattern styles within a closely related pedigree, making it one of the clearest examples we have documented to date.

Legacy

Mr. Butterscotch adds another substantial layer to the documented production history behind My Peruvian Zephyrus.

Seven of his 14 registered offspring have been identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin. Pattern appeared through both sons and daughters and continued into later generations through independent branches.

Not every branch produced the same result. Some patterned offspring produced only solid registered descendants. Others left no registered offspring. Elderwood’s Boomerang produced three registered offspring, with all three identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin. Tennessee Valley Tia produced an even larger family, including Hercules of IPH and his later patterned descendants.

Then Tia’s breeding to Tachometer introduced another pattern family entirely. The resulting America and Maximus branch is valuable because it gives us a visual comparison between continued Appaloosa/Harlequin expression and the speckled/broken pinto style.

That makes Mr. Butterscotch’s legacy useful for more than documenting another patterned sire. His descendants help us follow an established Zephyrus family across generations, document repeated Appaloosa/Harlequin production, and examine what happened when that same family was later combined with pinto.

Archive Summary

Mr. Butterscotch, AOA #30320970, was a son of My Peruvian Zephyrus, already documented in AA-002. Registered Beige with Medium Fawn secondary color, Mr. Butterscotch produced 14 registered offspring, including seven identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin.

Pattern continued through multiple descendant branches. Elderwood’s Boomerang produced three registered offspring, all identified as Appaloosa or Harlequin. Tennessee Valley Tia produced Hercules of IPH, an identified Harlequin who later produced at least four identified Appaloosa/Harlequin offspring among 11 registered offspring.

Tia also provides an important contrasting branch. When bred to pinto sire Tachometer, she produced IPH America, identified as a speckled/broken pinto. America later produced OTRR Maximus, who displays the same general speckled/broken pinto style.

Together, these descendants make Mr. Butterscotch an important continuation of the Zephyrus family and provide an unusually useful example of both continued Appaloosa/Harlequin expression and the reduced phenotypic predictability that can follow the introduction of pinto.

Archive Information

The Appy Archives
Research by Brandon Sigler
Elderwood Farms
Version: 1.0
Published: September 2026
Research Status: Current through September 2026
Sources: AOA Registry • AOA Certificate of Registration • Historical photographs • Breeder records • Elderwood Farms phenotype review

© 2026 Brandon Sigler | Elderwood Farms

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