Re: [AlpacaTalk] Girls or boys?
Hi Caryn:
In your place I would purchase 2 female crea of as good a quality as I
could afford.
Here's why:
1/They will produce the fleece you require as yearlings yet should cost
less than older, proven animals.
2/By the time they are ready to breed at 3 yrs. you will be ready to
start your breeding herd. You will be starting with a young herd that
will produce crea and fiber for many, many years.
3/When you are ready to start breeding you can purchase stud services.
This way you do not have to purchase any macho's until you have enough
hembras to keep a macho busy.
4/One of your females may give birth to a macho that is of breeding
quality and be able to use him on the unrelated hembra and trade stud
services for the other one. There may not be a high probability of this
happening but if your original two girls are of high enough quality and
the machos you breed them to are of excellent quality also it is a
definite possibility.
5/The final reason for buying now rather than later is that I do not see
the prices of good quality breeding females going down any time soon and
in fact anticipate an increase in price.
Showing is a non issue as far as I am concerned as either male or
female, young or old may be shown. Quality is the deciding factor when
it comes to showing.
By for now:
Wayne
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<-----Original Message-----
>From: Caryn Law [law.caryn@gmail.
>Sent: 1/26/2009 3:35:39 PM
>To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
>Subject: Re: [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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