[AlpacaTalk] Girls or boys?
Hello everyone!
When I (hopefully) buy my first alpacas this year (probably two to start
with), I'm wondering...
I don't plan to show alpacas. I'm interested in owning them purely for the
fiber as I'm a handspinner who would like to use their fiber for handspun
products. We aren't interested in getting into the breeding aspect of
alpacas right away as we don't want to overextend ourselves and want to get
experienced with just owning them before breeding. But I know that if I want
to expand my herd, I'll either have to buy from someone else or have a
breeding female. On the one hand, I like the idea of having a breedable
female eventually (so I would want to start by owning females) for this
purpose, but on the other hand breeding females are very, very pricey, and
I'm wondering as a fiber-only owner if I'll want to just stick with buying
my alpacas from someone else, in which case I suppose I could go with either
boys or girls.
Any advice? As far as owning both, I'm not sure I want to do that -- our
pasture is one large plot with two small divisions in it that total three
paddocks, but the paddocks aren't separated enough, I believe, to allow for
proper seperation of the sexes.
Looking forward to hearing from the experts!
Also, is there a particular time of year that's best for buying your
alpacas?
- Caryn Law
Issaquah, WA
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