Re: [AlpacaTalk] Pet peeve

 

Hey folks, 

Color checking can be a challenge to say the least! A few pointers! First, if you have an unusually colored alpaca, go to the show rules book and look up the color checking rules to best find where you think your alpaca fits and to understand how alpacas get grouped together if the numbers at the show are not large enough to separate multis from indefinites, for instance.

Most important though is that if you have a question or concern about where your alpaca is being placed, or your alpaca has been color checked one way at one show and is now being color checked differently at this show, bring it back to the ring (handled by someone else) to ask the judges for that show to evaluate it. There is a specific time before the show starts to accomplish this.

I have pasted some of the color rules below, but will tell you that one current issue is that some folks are trying to get alpacas with color contaminated fleeces out of the solid classes and into the indefinite classes, where they would probably stand a better chance of getting a ribbon. The animal that is indefinite must obviously be indefinite when examined, not just a light fiber here and there in the brown fleece, for instance.

Hope that pasting these rules is helpful!

Laurel

Classic Grey (Silver & Rose): The alpaca must have a predominantly white face. It may also have white on the brow, front of the neck (tuxedo) and front of the legs.

Modern Grey (Silver & Rose): The alpaca’s face must be predominantly any colors other than white.

Definition of Indefinite Light: White or Beige alpacas/fleece with easily recognizable dark fibers uniformly interspersed throughout the blanket of which the primary color is not grey.

Definition of Indefinite Dark: Colored alpacas/fleece with easily recognizable white/light fibers uniformly interspersed throughout the blanket of which the primary color is not grey.

Definitions of Multicolor

a. Pattern: An alpaca shall qualify as a pattern if it displays a secondary distinct (easily identified by the naked eye) solid patch of color at the skin on the blanket, providing that any single solid patch of color shall be greater than six inches in length in any direction. The primary color shall not be grey.

b. Pinto: an alpaca that exhibits two distinct colors one of which is white. The extremities are predominantly white and the majority of the blanket is fawn or darker.

c. Fancy: blanket fiber that exhibits three or more distinct (easily identified by the naked eye) colors of which the primary color is not grey.

d. Appaloosa: blanket fiber that exhibits six or more spots of distinct (easily identified by the naked eye) secondary color(s) of which the primary color is not grey.


The Shouvlins
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Springfield, Ohio
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www.bluebirdhills.com
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The Shouvlins Bluebird Hills Farm Springfield, Ohio 937-206-3936 www.bluebirdhills.com bluebirdhills@voyager.net

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