JennCria Ranches goal is to deal with our customers and suppliers in an honest, moral, sincere, courteous, and compassionate manner and through selective breeding provide our customers with genetically superior alpacas…Ideal Alpacas. JennCria Ranch hopes to develop a herd of about 50 alpacas, and eventually acquire a share or two in “Studmaster™ Males.” We look forward to meeting you and showing you around our ranch.
About Alpacas
Alpaca fiber is warmer than sheep's wool and lighter in weight. It is soft and luxurious and lacks the "prickle" factor. However, as with all fleece producing animals, quality varies from animal to animal. The Suri and Huacaya fleece of each animal is very different too. The Suri breed of alpacas is rarer than the huacaya, and constitutes only 17.6% of the total registered alpacas listed on ARI. Based on ARI’s database (www.alpacaregistry.net) it is estimated that the True Black Suri only represents about 5.9% of all registered alpacas, and registered grey Suri alpacas only constitute 3.5%!
Fiber and conformation are the two most important factors in determining an alpaca's value. Animals from the Peruvian Accoyo line often have the best fiber characteristics. Alpacas have been domesticated for thousands of years, and they were bred down in domesticated form from the vicuna. They are closely related to llamas, which are descended from the guanaco, and these four species of animals are collectively called camelids. The alpaca comes in more than 22 natural colors, and their fiber is most remarkable.
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