Re: [Alpacasite] Re: Pet quality or fiber quality?

When I was about 11or12 we had a small dairy farm and all 37 cows and the
resident bull had names. When calves were born a truck came and took them
away a day or so after they were born so I had little chance to name them,
get attached or really think about exactly where they were going. All was
going well until "Clownie" fell and broke her hip. She was butchered and put
in our freezer. I would eat no more meat until I saw that all those packages
were gone. It wasn't that I didn't eat meat, I just didn't eat my friends,
she had a name. And that's where we are going to get into some serious
trouble, with cows, there are VERY few pets, whatever is not useful is
called dinner. Anybody watch the movie "Babe"? Now, if we could just teach
our non-breeder/pet quality/fiber gelding alpacas to be "sheep-pacas" ....

Have a Good Day All!
Barb Wilson
Alpacas of Pleasant Valley
Morrisville, NY 13408
www.alpacasofpleasantvalley.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "alpacastarr" <starr@veneziadream.com>
To: <Alpacasite@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:58 AM
Subject: [Alpacasite] Re: Pet quality or fiber quality?

> And it's always struck me as peculiar that we struggle to find terms
> to describe the "exception" alpaca as a non-breeder/ pet quality/
> fiber gelding or whatever.
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> Breeders of most other livestock would call the vast majority of the
> population "alpacas" and the "exception" would be the select few who
> are specifically chosen and called breed stock. I think we've got
> that backwards and our difficulties in trying to put a name to the few
> "let's-not-breed-this-one exceptions" reflects it.
>
> Starr Cash
> Venezia Dream Farm
> Asheville, NC
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> --- In Alpacasite@yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Coursey" <kathryn@c...> wrote:
>>
>> Referring to non-breeding animals as 'pet quality' has always kinda
> struck
>> me wrong. To me, a "pet" has no use other than to eat and be cuddled.
>>
>> However, our non breeders are still of use in fiber productions and
> NEEDED
>> companion animals.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more accurate to describe our non-breeders as "fiber
> quality
>> ?
>>
>> Kathryn & Robert Coursey
>> kathryn@c...
>> Chipola Alpacas
>> In the Panhandle of Florida
>> www.chipolaalpacas.com
>> (850) 639-6809
>> I am a source for weeping willow trees
>> And white mulberry trees.
>>
>> I will defend to your death,
>> Your right to make yourself look
>> Like a total Jack-Ass
>>
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