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December 2009 - A beautiful addition to our appaloosa herd - Arcady Lillypilly, female cria born from Arcady Tiger Lilly on December 9th. June 2009 - Light silver stud male prospect - Arcady PAUA Arcady Paua is shaping as our next young silver grey stud male. He has his first female spitting off from a test mating at only 19.5 months of age. Paua has had a succesful show career so far with 2 X 2nd places as Junior and 3 X 1st placings as Intermediate (including Royal Melbourne Show 2008) in his 2nd fleece. He is an immaculate pale silver, pretty much the perfect colour. His sire is also a light grey, not quite silver, not quite rose, Bumble Hill Shillac. His dam, Arcady Perlina, is also an immaculate pale silver and has superb silver genetics, being by Arcady Voodoo (also immaculate pale silver !) and a granddaughter of Hope Downs El Gordo (another light silver) and Bodeguero Mystique (yet another light silver). Look out for Paua at stud from Spring 2009. Check out his pics and details on our Stud Males page.
May 2009 Whilst the main thrust of the alpaca breeding industry in Australia will quite rightly continue to be the development of exquisite alpaca fleece, the National herd, and the Industry in general, is now large enough and mature enough to ~ EXPLORE THE CONCEPT OF DUAL PURPOSE ALPACAS ~ Alpacas for meat and fleece. This is a fairly new concept in Australia and one which might appeal to the more broadacre or specialist commercial farmer. In late 2008 we selected our first Arcadian alpaca for slaughter. Alpaca meat is very beautiful eating .... lean, tender and mild-flavoured. It cooks up somewhere between lamb and veal and takes spices very well. Our local butcher, Tim Noske from Hahndorf, whose business did the slaughter and butchering for us, was very impressed with the quality of the meat, declaring that "If you didn't know, you would think it was veal". Within the significant alpaca herd that exists nationally within Australia, it is now possible to identify individuals or bloodlines which lend themselves to the production of fast-growing, early-maturing animals very suitable for meat production and the possibility exists to selectively breed to further enhance these traits.
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