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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Re: [AlpacaTalk] Colors


In a message dated 2/26/2008 1:20:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jpowers@bentstarproject.org writes:

As to herdsires, a fabulous fawn has the possibility
of producing nearly any color and a high probability
of throwing improvements.

Thanks for the answers. I think you hit it on the head for me above. Fawn is
the color I was looking for, not the color itself but what color offered me
the greatest variety considering the variety of colors of females I will soon
have.

We are probably doing it backwards, because we have all picked out favorite
colors and now are shopping for what we would consider the best female we can
afford. But considering the whole house likes different colors, we know
eventually we will have to pick the ideal male. Now it would be hard to pick out
the ideal male for each female - as with only 6-8 females we cant have a
different sire for each. (we are just starting out). Now but this thought comes
to mind....

We currently breed horses (for 15+ years). Both for sport, show and race. We
dont pick our stallions based on the conformation of the mare. As in if you
have a mare with a long back, you dont breed to a stallion with a short back.
Because genetically horses do not obtain 50/50 genes on the back. You would
actually end us with either a short backed or long backed foal. The foal
either gets the sires back gene or the mothers. Same thing with leg conformation.
if you have a mare over at the knee you need to breed to a stallion with
perfect legs (now in my book ALL stallions should have perfect legs) There is no
middle. So in chosing sires for our mares, we consider pedigree, race/show
records, disposition but conformation is always based on the "ideal"
conformation standards.

So why wouldnt you pick an alpaca sire that is close to perfect in every
way, period?


Amy
(ps again, BRAND new to alpacas)

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