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Meat 'Pacas
A couple of the larger alpaca breeders, one in New South Wales and the other in South Australia, say for the fake vintage alhambra necklace industry to become fully commercial, alpaca meat needs to appear on restaurant menus.
There's something comical about this regular round up. Della the Chihuahua cross thinks she's a farm dog. And the large animals she herds are prepared to believe her.
This is Ambersun Alpacas, based at Mount Compass in South Australia, a multi award winning business that began with a chance introduction to these South American camelids 20 years ago.
ADRIENNE CLARKE, ALPACA BREEDERS: I saw them at the Royal Adelaide Show. They were there in the children's nursery as a display animal. And I thought they were a beautiful animal. They appealed to me because they're a beautiful animal and so then I went and discussed it with Chris.
CHRIS WILLIAMS, ALPACA BREEDERS: Big eyes, long eyelashes. It was like, "I have to have one, I have to have one."
PRUE ADAMS: Chris Williams and Adrienne Clarke outlaid $150,000 for six of the long lashed beauties. With more than 1,000 in their herd now, their fine fibre genetics are spread around Australia and Europe.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: I said, "Adrienne, if we're going to do this, let's do it properly." And here replica van cleef alhambra necklace gold we are today, one of the largest alpaca studs in the world outside South America.
PRUE ADAMS: When it comes to breeding, alpacas still do it the old fashioned way. Adrienne is the master recipe maker, selecting females for the stud males based on colour and fleece quality.
ADRIENNE CLARKE: She's not been mated replica Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet gold and diamond before, so she should sit willingly.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: Our routine here is that we'll present a female roughly two to three weeks after she's given birth or when they reach maturity from 12 months to about 15 months of age. Present them to the male. If they sit happily, we allow them to mate. If they reject, we'll put them back into the group and they'll come through again in a couple of weeks.
PRUE ADAMS: Commercial artificial insemination has so far proven elusive in the alpaca world, mostly because of the complex way in which they conceive.
The females are induced ovulators. They'll produce an egg roughly a day after mating. And the males are dribble ejaculators, releasing small amounts of semen at a time.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: The boys, they all vary a little bit. Some mate as quick as five minutes, some go for half an hour. And when we have them all going, it's sort of a bit of a competition "I can go longer than you can" type of attitude. But, anyway, boys will be boys.
PRUE ADAMS: This might all fall into the "too much information" category, but it goes a long way to explaining how Ambersun's genetics have been spread throughout the land and beyond.
In 1998, Chris Williams hit on an idea to provide mobile matings. So every month, he loaded up his van with a handful of his best males, or machos, and hit the road.
How do the boys put up with these trips every month?
ADRIENNE CLARKE: They love it. (Laughs)
CHRIS WILLIAMS: They would just about line up.
ADRIENNE CLARKE: And if we left the back doors of the van open, the males would just jump in freely. I mean, even if they weren't going on a trip, you could just see it, they would climb in the van and they would get their position where they would be next to the water bowl or next to the food bowl and they would just sit there waiting for Chris to take them away.
So, certainly it wasn't abuse of the animals. They enjoyed the trips away. It was like a boys' trip every month.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: I was like the chaperone or the bus driver on a football trip each every month.
ADRIENNE CLARKE: I think he's more like a pimp for alpacas. (Laughs)
PRUE ADAMS: But all good things must come to an end. When the GFC hit, the drought bit and fuel prices shot up, the boys were put out to pasture. By that stage, they had provided 2,500 matings with a better than 50 per cent offspring success rate. And former livestock officer, Chris, decided to branch out into Europe.
Since 2008, he's spent the Continental summer conducting alpaca management workshops and shearing a good chunk of the European herd.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: This year I'm not sure about 1,500 alpacas from Slovenia in the south to as far north as Norway.
PRUE ADAMS: Back home, Ambersun's shearing shed is a hive of squealing activity over our summer months.
A couple of the larger alpaca breeders, one in New South Wales and the other in South Australia, say for the fake vintage alhambra necklace industry to become fully commercial, alpaca meat needs to appear on restaurant menus.
There's something comical about this regular round up. Della the Chihuahua cross thinks she's a farm dog. And the large animals she herds are prepared to believe her.
This is Ambersun Alpacas, based at Mount Compass in South Australia, a multi award winning business that began with a chance introduction to these South American camelids 20 years ago.
ADRIENNE CLARKE, ALPACA BREEDERS: I saw them at the Royal Adelaide Show. They were there in the children's nursery as a display animal. And I thought they were a beautiful animal. They appealed to me because they're a beautiful animal and so then I went and discussed it with Chris.
CHRIS WILLIAMS, ALPACA BREEDERS: Big eyes, long eyelashes. It was like, "I have to have one, I have to have one."
PRUE ADAMS: Chris Williams and Adrienne Clarke outlaid $150,000 for six of the long lashed beauties. With more than 1,000 in their herd now, their fine fibre genetics are spread around Australia and Europe.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: I said, "Adrienne, if we're going to do this, let's do it properly." And here replica van cleef alhambra necklace gold we are today, one of the largest alpaca studs in the world outside South America.
PRUE ADAMS: When it comes to breeding, alpacas still do it the old fashioned way. Adrienne is the master recipe maker, selecting females for the stud males based on colour and fleece quality.
ADRIENNE CLARKE: She's not been mated replica Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet gold and diamond before, so she should sit willingly.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: Our routine here is that we'll present a female roughly two to three weeks after she's given birth or when they reach maturity from 12 months to about 15 months of age. Present them to the male. If they sit happily, we allow them to mate. If they reject, we'll put them back into the group and they'll come through again in a couple of weeks.
PRUE ADAMS: Commercial artificial insemination has so far proven elusive in the alpaca world, mostly because of the complex way in which they conceive.
The females are induced ovulators. They'll produce an egg roughly a day after mating. And the males are dribble ejaculators, releasing small amounts of semen at a time.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: The boys, they all vary a little bit. Some mate as quick as five minutes, some go for half an hour. And when we have them all going, it's sort of a bit of a competition "I can go longer than you can" type of attitude. But, anyway, boys will be boys.
PRUE ADAMS: This might all fall into the "too much information" category, but it goes a long way to explaining how Ambersun's genetics have been spread throughout the land and beyond.
In 1998, Chris Williams hit on an idea to provide mobile matings. So every month, he loaded up his van with a handful of his best males, or machos, and hit the road.
How do the boys put up with these trips every month?
ADRIENNE CLARKE: They love it. (Laughs)
CHRIS WILLIAMS: They would just about line up.
ADRIENNE CLARKE: And if we left the back doors of the van open, the males would just jump in freely. I mean, even if they weren't going on a trip, you could just see it, they would climb in the van and they would get their position where they would be next to the water bowl or next to the food bowl and they would just sit there waiting for Chris to take them away.
So, certainly it wasn't abuse of the animals. They enjoyed the trips away. It was like a boys' trip every month.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: I was like the chaperone or the bus driver on a football trip each every month.
ADRIENNE CLARKE: I think he's more like a pimp for alpacas. (Laughs)
PRUE ADAMS: But all good things must come to an end. When the GFC hit, the drought bit and fuel prices shot up, the boys were put out to pasture. By that stage, they had provided 2,500 matings with a better than 50 per cent offspring success rate. And former livestock officer, Chris, decided to branch out into Europe.
Since 2008, he's spent the Continental summer conducting alpaca management workshops and shearing a good chunk of the European herd.
CHRIS WILLIAMS: This year I'm not sure about 1,500 alpacas from Slovenia in the south to as far north as Norway.
PRUE ADAMS: Back home, Ambersun's shearing shed is a hive of squealing activity over our summer months.
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