I'd like to thank 4K Alpacas for taking some time with us on Sunday to really help educate us on suris. It was enlightening for sure and a great help to us in helping to make our selections.
I was amazed to find that a colored suri generally had a huacaya in the background somewhere to help bring the colors into the suri line. This explains a bit more to me why there is a possible huacaya with suris. I also learned that the full face/full beard look that is so popular is something that is generally temporary in all alpacas. This really helped me to understand why almost every sire and dam I looked at did not have these traits but the offspring did.
We’ve been hearing lots of use of A and E to help with development of the bones in young alpacas. I would do a bit more research to see exactly what makes sense for treatment but it seems to be something that is given to help with weak front knees.
Oh, one other thing is the use of MTG (normally noted for horses) for helping to get hair growth back where alpacas have had cuts, bug/fly issues and have rubbed it off. This seems to be a common practice but I’m not sure all smaller farms have heard it.
While we are not certain, we have kind of got our minds into getting 2 suri and 1 huacaya this batch. Of course, considering we already got our first boy purchased and he is a huacaya.
Anyway, I hope those little facts about alpacas are helpful to everyone else. I know that I found them to be very interesting.
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