Re: [AlpacaTalk] Hartman Alpaca Sale in Nebraska
I do believe Hartmans are AOBA members. Good news is...they cancelled their June auction...not enough animals consigned. After talking to the farmer who bought a couple of Elizabeth's alpacas, I was fairly confident that these animals are not being resold for meat. He resells them at "exotic animal" auctions throughout the midwest and actually has a herd of over 30 alpacas himself. He is a livestock farmer who has diversified into mini-donkeys, mini-horses and alpacas. He considers them LIVESTOCK and treats them as such. His comment to me was...."why would someone spend $100-500 for an alpaca and get 25lbs of meat when they can buy llamas for $10-50 and get 3x's the meat; the llama people are watching out to prevent that." At one time, Hartman's Auction served a purpose for many alpaca owners who needed to downsize, cull or disperse their herd. The past couple years, however, the alpacas have brought such poor prices that you would be better off to give them away as Heather stated. Unfortunately, the Mike Schmidt "fiascal" has affected more than just that one auction he attended. Hartman is a business man and as long as he can make $ having alpaca auctions, he will continue in the business. He does not own alpacas, does not even particularly like them...he sells the idea that you can make $ selling your animals at his auction. Each auction does have 1 or 2 animals that may sell in the thousands of $'s but the majority of them will go for around $100. Please do some research. We alpaca breeders in the area would love to see Hartman's auction bring in the big breeders, not just to sell their culls but to actually BUY some of what we have locally. But until I see that happen, I will not take my animals to his auctions and have no plans to attend again, even as an observer. Robin B Ace & Robin Buettenback B4 Alpacas LLC 3742 S Locust Grand Island Ne 68801 --- On Wed, 6/10/09, Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@westwind
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