sales tender catalogue - Southern Alpacas

THE SALE
This is a sale by tender to reduce numbers in our herd. We are offering
some of our best matriarch bloodstock on a reserved basis, plus a
number of younger offspring on a non-reserved basis.
This is an international sale, offering to alpaca breeders all over the world.
Southern Alpacas Stud offers follow up mating with our top studs, and for
overseas buyers, isolation on our farm and shipping from New Zealand, if
successful purchasers require these services.
ABOUT SOUTHERN ALPACAS
Southern Alpacas Stud has been breeding quality alpacas since the very
start of the New Zealand alpaca industry in 1989, and is still a major
player in the NZ industry.
The owners of Southern Alpacas Stud, Nic Cooper and Linda Blake, have
been instrumental in most of the major developments in the industry over
the past 23 years, including the Alpaca Registry, the Tb testing scheme,
Breed Standards, the genetic gain project, and neo-natal education.
Southern Alpacas Stud were the first (after the original Chilean
shipments) to import new alpaca genetics to NZ. As well as the usual
Australian genetic base, there is a high proportion of quality USA genetics
in the herd, personally selected on trips to USA.
Southern Alpacas Stud has been exporting alpacas for the past 7 years,
to UK and Europe. The exported alpacas have performed well in shows in
those countries, achieving many championship ribbons.
Southern Alpacas Stud operates two Registry herd names – NZ Southern
(SNZ) and Hemiccoyo (HEM). Also included in the tender are agisted
alpacas in the Greenstone (GTN) herd name that have been managed
since inception in line with the Southern Alpacas Stud breeding
philosophy.
SOUTHERN ALPACAS BREEDING PHILOSOPHY
Southern Alpacas has developed a breeding philosophy that fits a long
term commercial herd development. It is very conformation and fibre
based and is not influenced by short term breeding models proposed by
industry advisors from time to time.
We breed damn good fibre producing alpacas.
For many years our goals were around breeding fine micron alpacas that
hold their micron to commercial fleece levels into older age.
Having largely achieved that goal, we now concentrate on lowering guard
hair levels (or lowering guard hair micron), eliminating colour
contamination, and gaining uniformity across the body of the alpaca.
Whilst we have no breeding goal for crimp style, the above goals have
tended to produce us a high frequency, high amplitude type of fleece.