Breeding Alpacas

Breeding Alpacas For Color

By Steve | Published June 6th, 2010

By Mike Safley The Spaniard, Cieza de Leon, made the first written record of alpaca and llama colors in 1553. The Indian herds of Chile and Bolivia that graze the altiplano still exhibit all the colors found in that original list. Today, the herds owned by Julio Barreda and the big Peruvian cooperatives are primarily…

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