Re: [Alpacasite] Llama in car...

Hi Holly,

Here are some interesting links regarding the history of alpacas in the U.S:

http://www.mountlehmanllamas.com/trivia43.html

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~slm/MtnToe/llama.htm

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From "Llamas for Love and Money", by Rosanna Hart (perhaps a bit
outdated, but informative):

History of Llamas and Alpacas in North America

Zoos have been homes to llamas in this country for over a hundred
years, typically breeding with their offspring generation after
generation. Beginning in the late 1920s, William Randolph Hearst
imported some llamas to roam the hills of his grand San Simeon Estate
on California's central coast. He had a dozen llamas in 1931. Around
that time, the United States government banned importation from any
country where Foot and Mouth Disease was present. Since the ban, some
animals have come in from countries free of the disease, or in more
recent years by undergoing quarantine processes.

It has sometimes been said that the basis of North American stock was
only the Hearst herd, but in actuality there were also the zoo
animals and some others. Still, it is true that thousands of North
American animals are descended from a small number. It has been
estimated that at the time of the importation ban in 1930, there were
two hundred fifty llamas in this country. Many of those were actually
guanacos, an undomesticated close relative of the llama, or
llama-guanaco crosses.

After Hearst died, Roland Lindemann purchased the San Simeon llamas,
which numbered between thirty and forty animals. He took them to his
Catskill Game Farm in Catskill, New York, where llamas are still bred
today. Lindemann also purchased some llamas from zoos. This Catskill
herd grew over time, and was one of several sources from which Dick
and Kay Patterson selected llamas for a herd which has numbered over
five hundred animals. Many breeders today own some Patterson llamas
or descendants of Patterson animals.

During the 1980s, a number of llamas and alpacas were imported from
South America. Many breeders welcomed the new blood lines. while
others were initially reserved. Today, many llamas are described as
"part Bolivian" or "part Chilean" offspring of these imports. All
told, there are probably somewhere around 50,000 llamas in North
America now. That's very small compared to the over fifty million
dogs, forty million cats, or ten million horses. There are over a
quarter of a million donkeys and mules, counted together.

Alpacas

Alpacas are smaller and woollier than llamas, bred by the Indians for
their wool where the llamas were bred more for packing. Alpacas have
a somewhat more herd-oriented disposition. Until recently, there were
very few alpacas in the United States, mostly in zoos. But during the
1980s, several hundred were imported and now there is a thriving
business. In North America as in South America, the alpaca industry
is focused on the production of outstanding wool. Many people prefer
alpacas to llamas because they are smaller and easier to handle as well.
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Dave

David & Esther Friedman
Adirondack Alpacas
"From the Womb to the Loom"
9568 Old Stage Road
Remsen, NY 13438
www.newyorkalpacas.com
315-831-3040

At 02:39 PM 12/2/2005, you wrote:
>OK, since this was in 1957...when WERE the first Llamas brought to
>the US ? I "believe" that Alpacas were first imported in 1984 ??
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>Holly Zech
>Pleasant Grove CA
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> Interesting pic of a llama in Time Square, 1957
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