Authors:
Rhonda and Kern Deschner
Tierra Prometida Alpaca Ranch, Fischer, Texas, United States

Date of Publication:
July 31, 2013

Publication:
Tierra Prometida Alpaca Ranch

Excerpt:
What are we afraid of?

• Is the procedure safe for the animals?
• Is doing ET ethical? 
• Do the costs and difficulty of the technology make it only practical for the larger, wealthier farms?
• And if so, is it fair?
• Does using ET decrease the variability of the gene pool and is it going to increase inbreeding?
• If ET improves the fiber quality across the national herd, do alpacas become just a fiber industry?  If so, where is the value in breeding the animals? 
• Isn’t ET going to flood the market with alpacas?

 The answers for many of these questions can be found by observing what has happened with other livestock industries that utilize ET, and by instituting some important guidelines.

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