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Show Issue November 2003

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November 2003 Newsletter -  Show Issue

It's Show Time! 

We've exhibited at 3 shows this spring season, and Nic has been judge at another show. We have won Supreme Champion Huacaya at two shows, including the Royal Show,
and 10 broad championship ribbons.  Our Show team of six animals have each won Championship ribbons, so we are really proud of what we have bred here at
Southern Alpacas Stud.

Nic and Linda of Southern Alpacas Stud are delighted to retain our record of winning  Supreme Champion Huacaya at every show on the Royal Show circuit since alpacas have been shown - 1997-2003.  Here are our championship alpacas from the Royal Show held this year in Hastings - left to right:

NZ Southern Julius won Supreme Champion Huacaya and Champion Junior  Male after winning his junior male class in white/light fawns.  He was sired by Brutus.

NZ Southern Capricorn won his junior male class and was Reserve Champion Junior Male.  He was sired by High South, himself a Royal Show Supreme Champion in 2001.

NZ Southern Equinox won his Intermediate Male class, then won Intermediate Champion (all colours, both genders).  He was sired by MoonShine.

NZ Southern Tucson Gold won his Intermediate Male class, then won Reserve Intermediate Champion  He was sired by MoonShine and has the same dam as Julius.

These winning alpacas are all bred from Southern Alpacas Stud sires - MoonShine, Brutus and High South. 

See more about our studs and our complete colour range of studs ...

NZ Southern Julius, a Brutus cria, won   Supreme Champion Huacaya
at both the Ellesmere Show and the prestigious Royal Show in Hastings.

Two young female cria from Brutus,
NZ Southern Capri and Caledonia, took Champion Junior Female and
Reserve Champion Junior Female
at the  Christchurch Show. See them with Julius pictured below.

Brutus's fleece took Reserve Champion
at the Manawatu Show.

We were pleased to also see our clients gaining ribbons with Brutus cria - and they come in all colours, as Brutus is heterozygous white - meaning he can throw colours, not just whites.
Take a look at Brutus' webpage.
 

Sires Progeny


The Sire's Progeny class is to show two cria who are like "peas in a pod" to show a sire has consistency in progeny. Our sires are beating overseas-based studs !!

Julius won Sire's Progeny for Brutus at both Ellesmere and Hawkes Bay Royal paired with our NZ Southern Capri on one occasion and NZ Southern Caledonia on another occasion.

Get of Dam

The female side of the family is also very important.  A new show class called "get of dam" allows progeny of one dam to be shown.

Interesting to us, is that the Supreme Champions in the past two Royal Shows came from the same dam, Jo Jo.

They won Get of Dam at Ellesmere Show, and came 2nd at Hawkes Bay and Christchurch.

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We also had a pairing from dam Solstice, who took third at Ellesmere, Hawkes Bay and Christchurch.

Excellence year after year

Benleigh Moon Shine's progeny continue to take awards at the Shows this season as they did last season.

Show winners last year are again taking prizes this year as they move up their age classes - like NZ Southern Tucson Gold and NZ Southern Equinox, pictured, taking Intermediate Champion and also Reserve Intermediate Champion at the Royal Show. Tucson has taken Reserve Intermediate Champion at all three shows he has been in this season.

MoonShine's female cria are doing well too - SilverStream Boadicea, won Supreme Champion Huacaya at the Manawatu Show and Willowbank Melody took Reserve Champion Senior at the Royal Show.

Along with Brutus, MoonShine progeny pairings have been right up there in the placings for Sire's Progeny at every show. MoonShine pairings won Sire's Progeny at Ashburton, and came 2nd and 3rd at Palmerston North, and 3rd at Ellesmere, Hawkes Bay and Christchurch.

MoonShine now has his own Stud Book on www.alpacamales.com and you can download details of all his and his progeny's winnings at shows Australasia wide.
 

You too can get these genetics, by using our stud boys.  They travel around the country, so enquire about their travel itinerary and book in quick.

Contact us to discuss when our studs will be based in your region, for your girls.

And you can buy these genetics for your own herd, with a herdsire from our boys. Take a look at the boys ready to work now on our herdsires page
 

Alpacas near YOU !

A group of us alpaca breeders are working co-operatively together to provide alpaca sales, services and support in a network that covers New Zealand.

Members of the nationwide Alpaca Services network own and/or manage  studs with us, providing a real local service with the stud service.

We  are located regionally throughout NZ, so you will be able to visit one of our farms somewhere near you. We provide advice, assistance, and animals, as well as sales, service and on-going support.

You can meet us on our website www.alpacaservices.co.nz,
and also see what alpacas are for sale in your region.

More on the Alpaca Services network

Top price was for well-known stud Purrumbete Brigantine, the son of the fabled Highlander.  Our NZ consortium reached our economic bid and had to pull out at the last bid, and he went to an Australian for $A145,000.  Top price for a female was 12 year old Benleigh Sweet Freedom, bought for $A66,000 by a NZ'er for embryo transplant purposes.

The 72 breeding huacaya lots made over $A900,000, before the additional 20 lots of recipient females and suris. A NZ'er also paid top price for an embryo in a recipient for $A26,000 and was able to insure it !  The auction took over $A1 million and it bodes well for New Zealand and the industry carrying on strongly here.