- There are no perfect alpacas. There is great room for improvement in all of our herds, and we can watch it happen before our eyes in our very own pastures, when we make good breeding choices. Once you learn to judge alpaca conformation and fleece, you'll see that not even blue ribbon winners are perfect. Learning to evaluate fleece will help you to make the best breeding choices for your alpacas. more »
- The Alpaca Association of New Zealand has reviewed its fleece scoring system and decided to award 105 points instead of 100 so as to change the weighting for certain traits. This came about following a judges' training session. more »
- The effect of micron and density on fleece weight yields is discussed and illustrated with graphs. more »
- A basic set of fleece trait standards that can be applied to the assessment of herd-sires within an individual herd based on information collected by the Australian Alpaca Association when it looked at applying import standards for future shipments of alpacas from South America. more »