Author:
Emilie Campbell

Date of Publication:
2005

Publication:
Alpacas Magazine, Spring 2005, pp. 34-37

Excerpt:
Alpaca breeders, unlike those of other species in a not-so-distant past, will not have to resort to numerous and time consuming test breedings to establish inheritance of color genes. We will soon know… with the competent help of one very busy, very knowledgeable woman and a few drops of blood… exactly why that alpaca is red or black. Imagine that!

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