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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Re: [AlpacaTalk] Is it so hard to get the heritage of your alpacas correct?

 

Heather:
I have been leaving things blank on my new crop of crias...or at least not even paying attention to how they ended up showing up on that box. It's really difficult to figure out percentages on alpacanation. I'm having to go back like 3 or 4 generations to figure out where they started from since most animals are USA. By the time you get to the present, that makes some less than 1/8 Chilean or Bolivian or Peruvian. Then again, I'll admit that I just don't understand how to figure those percentages when you have more than about 2 generations......4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 gr gr grands, 32 gr gr gr grands........ At some point, if you look at a registration and find a great great grandparent Bolivian and another great great grandparent Chilean and the rest are all Peruvian, I'm not sure that heritage even makes any difference. The genetics at that point seem so intermixed that it's a moot point--at least from my point of view. I know that I'm not trying to mislead anybody, I just don't know how to honestly and accurately put it down. In most cases, I've been tempted to put full Peruvian (or whatever), but that seems misleading to me since there is ancestry from another country. I've never been as much interested in heritage as I have been with what the animal is that I'm breeding to and what traits I'm looking for. Again, that's just my opinion and I know that it does matter to other folks, but being accurate just seems beyond the capacity on the options listed for alpacanation.
 
Just my opinion and quandary...how do you figure it?
 
Susan
 
Susan Forman
Dewey Morning Alpacas
Washington Court House, OH 43160
740-636-1899
http://www.alpacanation.com/deweymorning.asp
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Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 9:04 PM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Is it so hard to get the heritage of your alpacas correct?

 

Is it just me (and a few other people with whom I've had this conversation), but does anyone else balk at the sloppy designation of alpacas for sale on the various sites? Side note, why can't those heritage selectors be set up to only accept a total of 100% anything, even a combination? I learned how to do that in lower lower division programming classes. Come on guys.


But really, I am so sick of seeing animals that come up on my search for full Bolivian, only to find ones who claim full Bolivian AND full Peruvian heritage, or whatever. I won't do business with a farm that is either that sloppy or intends to mislead customers, so they don't even refer to the registration certificate. 

I have been approached by many farms offering their full Bolivian dams to me, but after look them up on ARI, I find they are not even close to full Bolivian. And these are even some large-ish farms, run by AOBA certified judges! Whaaaaaa???? Come on people.  

So, when shopping for alpacas, please do your ARI searches to verify sellers' statements, at the very minimum. 

Heather

Heather Zeleny
White Lotus Alpacas
Oregon

Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece



Susan Forman
Dewey Morning Alpacas
Washington Court House, OH 43160
740-636-1899
http://www.alpacanation.com/deweymorning.asp

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