RE: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Other alpaca discussion groups
Hi Sherri,
I agree with you. Selling something requires a certain degree of
truthfulness as you can make a customer into a return customer through
honesty, but once you fib, you lose them
and anyone they might ever have
referred, forever. Likewise, if someone who is not prepared goes naively
into this business without proper understanding and support
they don't
become future customers
but they will become your future enemy
Of course, if anyone is foolish enough to believe that these animals are all
born flawless and continue until their dying breath without health or other
issues
then suddenly drop dead at year 25, you are dealing with a person who
does not have enough sense to be in business in the first place. I have no
desire to recruit someone who has no idea how to care for an animal into
this business. If they hurt an animal I've taken the time to nurture, I'd
never forgive myself
and if they fail and sell their herd at a loss, it
devalues my bloodlines if they bought from me. In the end, you have to
choose your customers as carefully as any other business partner
even though
they eventually become your competitors, if you do it properly, they can be
friendly, responsible, and fair competitors.
Really, since there are neither perfect animals, nor perfect breeders, the
real challenge is to use your skills to produce the best stock you know
how
and then I'd like to buy from you! If I learn and become as skilled in
my own way, then you want to buy my animals as well
.again, If we help each
other learn, breed and succeed
the industry as well as each of us, can
thrive.
Best Regards,
Allison
From: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Behalf Of Sheri Hewitt
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:13 PM
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Other alpaca discussion groups
What I was saying was the there are a lot of
farms (large and small but all on the same note)
who don't want anyone to talk about anything that
is controversial or might cause a new buyer to
pause. By taking this tack it means that the new
buyer won't find out until it's too late what really happens.
Personally, I think discussion is good for all of
us. If we lose a sale or two because someone is
turned away because alpacas might be a lot of
work, and might have health problems, then it's
better they did something else. And, those who go
ahead, knowing what can happen, will do much better in the long run.
Good, healthy discussion of all subjects will benefit all of us in the end.
No evil conspiracy theories or thoughts against those who are "the big
guys".
Sheri
Experience Alpacas!
Woodland Meadows, LLC
31542 Camas Swale Rd.
Creswell, OR 97426
www.woodlandmeadows
541-895-0964 or cell 541-912-0081
At 03:53 PM 6/6/2007, you wrote:
>Actually, when we started in this business 10 years ago, we were told
>by a large breeder that we shouldn't talk about any health problems we
>encountered. When we started losing animals to liver flukes, BECAUSE no
>one would talk about problems, even the vets had no idea what could be
>done to save those that were sick but not yet dead. So maybe the term
>"big farm" might have been a generalisation, but it was the large farms
>in the Northwest who effectively gagged any plea for help, any
>discussion of what do if this or that happens on your farm....
>
>There are a few who get their noses all out of joint when someone
>brings up the large farm/small farm issue. Guess what, big farms have a
>lot more power in this industry, just as any large company has more
>power than a small one. That is the truth and pretending that it is
>not, is either naive or in denial. yes, hopefully all the large farms
>are now forthright in the truth about the business and animal heath and
>care, but that was not always true.
>
>Heather
>
>Heather Zeleny
>West Wind Alpacas
>Eugene, OR
>
>Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece
>Home of Avatar's West Wind Scirocco, El Bello's Padré, Pluro grandson
>Sienna Illusion, and true black full Bolivian Cosby of Chelsea Farms!
><http://www.westwind
>http://www.alpacana
><http://tech.
o.com/group/
>
>On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Shouvlins wrote:
>
> > Wow Sheri,
> >
> > That seems a bit unfair and why would only big farms take this
> > approach. Everyone in the breeding business wants to sell alpacas, no
> > matter what their size. It seems a bit unfair to claim that only big
> > farms deceive folks. Frankly I haven't found that to be true, although
> > there has been one farm I know of like that, but I attribute that to
> > the individual, not the size of the farm. I know of small breeders who
> > cheat too. It ain't a size thing, it's an individual character thing.
> >
> > Laurel
>
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