[AlpacaTalk] Elite Alpacas and Hartmans

Curious as to the thinking about Hartmans and the auction/sale of
Elite Alpacas being dumped during this sale... Some farms have at
minimum 30 females being sold--if you add up the numbers it is
alarming as to how many animals will be sold this weekend. Is this a
dumping instead of culling? Who will be buying hundreds of males?

How does an alpaca farm (med to sm.) sizes compete with some of these
very large farms unloading their females and males at inexpensive
pricing, especially if you base it on past Hartman sales or the past
prices of auctions this year.

How does farms listed on Alpaca Elite .com with stellar breeding
programs get a potential new breeder to buy from them when they can
get one of their alpacas for a few thousand? or less? at a sale like
Hartmans?

Will this not hurt the current alpaca market?

I find it troublesome and I'm a bit confused about it.
I know there are lots of questions and I'm not asking anyone to answer
them all, but would really like to stir up some conversation about it.

pacagirly
northeast USA

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