Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: patterned alpaca search problem
Thanks, Mary. Patterned alpacas are showing up more and more on the show
circuit and are doing very well now, especially on the west coast. We breed
for multis since I think it makes more sense to have two colors to spin or
combine rather than just one. The fleeces spin so pretty.
I agree about the lack of show standards, we were marked down just once for
our TB male having a white spot on his face. Then once a judge made an
illegal ruling and knocked our only, young herdsire from 2nd to 3rd place because
of missing teeth. After pressing AOBA on the issue, they now have a show
standard stating that missing teeth in young animals cannot be marked down.
Too late for us, as the judge knocked us out of the Color Championship class by
doing this, which we really needed with our only herdsire. Now I hate to
show, that ruined the fun of it for me. As new owners, we were just
devastated. Showing alpacas is a crapshoot all right.
SUSAN OLSON
Alpaca Loco
Riverside, CA
In a message dated 10/28/2008 1:48:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
memeacher@yahoo.
Susan,
I feel your pain. Not necessarily in searching for patterned
alpacas, but in what your are getting at generally, and that's a
unified, blessed, standard for an alpaca. You may not remember her
or have been in the alpaca business while she was alive, but my good
friend Jodi Wever and I constantly voiced our opinions on the need
for standards for alpacas. Until that standard is developed and
accepted, there will always be the kind of problems you are facing.
In addition, judges will adopt their own standards in the rings, and
truthfully, alpaca values will continue to fall. It happened in the
llama industry and I have a firm belief it will also happen in the
alpaca industry. I cannot point to another livestock or animal
industry that does NOT have a standard.
As an aside, remember that patterned animals are not looked upon
kindly in the alpaca world for the most part. They get dinged by
many judges for broken color or spots in blankets, etc. And in peru
and chili and other south american countries with alpacas, it is
usually the patterned animals that are eaten first since sorting
their colors would be too demanding.
A suggestion, you may want to put your desires out on alpacamarket
and list what you're looking for. I think you may get a flood of
emails letting you know about their patterned animals.
I wish you good luck in your search.
Mary Meacher
Walnut Valley Alpacas
Ballston Lake, New York
518.878.1061
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>
> I have encountered a problem when searching for alpacas with
patterns,
> multis, pintos or appaloosas on both Alpacanation and the
registry. It appears
> people are registering their animals as being "patterns" when all
they have is
> a white spot on the face or legs or are even solid bay blacks. It
is
> extremely frustrating to search for patterned alpacas.
>
> I recently wrote to ARI and got a response that they will take it
into
> consideration. If anyone else has this problem, please write to
them and let them
> know. We need to change something, either put in an explanation
on the
> registration application of exactly what a patterned alpaca is
and how it should
> be registered, or have each registration application accompanied
by a picture
> of that alpaca.
>
> Susan Olson
> Alpaca Loco
> Riverside, CA
>
>
>
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