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About IAC Membership

The Ideal Alpaca Community is a collective effort that is intended to create the maximum opportunity for profitable farms and herds for individual members.

The Ideal Alpaca Community is a group of like minded breeders who believe in the ultimate potential of the alpaca. We are joined together by common principles and goals. Our collective purpose is to raise genetically superior alpacas that produce high volumes of fine fleece.

We share a belief in the Ideal Alpaca Breed Standards, Ideal Alpaca Type, and the use of progeny-tested, impact sires we call Studmaster" males. It is through these males and their progeny that the genetic improvement of our individual herds will be assured.

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2010 Guidelines for Preparing IAC Fleece Samples

Here is the information you need to properly and accurately prepare your alpaca's fleece samples and...

EPDs - Selecting for Superiority

If you had a choice, would you rather use a stud male, one in the top 0.2% of all males in the Unite...

IAC Getting Started Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for joining the IAC and creating your own website cont...

Summary of Ideal Alpaca Community 2008 - 2009 Huacaya EPD Results

The Ideal Alpaca Community to pleased to provide detailed alpaca EPDs for members participating i...

Tryphon Farm Alpacas

Tryphon Farm Alpacas

At Tryphon Farm Alpacas you'll find a thoughtful breeding program producing  huacaya alpacas with superior fleece in various shades of white, lights, fawns and browns.  We pay special attention to high quality nutrition, use cleaning products that are earth and animal friendly, and are judicious in our use of medicines, to provide an optimal environment for our herd and fiber health.  We also measure our results thoroughly, planning for and tracking improvements in uniformity first and foremost, with fineness and increased brightness our secondary goals.

Turning "Try" into triumph--everyday!



    

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Summary of Ideal Alpaca Community 2008 - 2009 Huacaya EPD Results

The Ideal Alpaca Community to pleased to provide detailed alpaca EPDs for members participating in the EPD program.  Several dozen charts are presented that allow you to view EPDs using several different chart formats. 

The Huacaya EPDs were computed for the IAC by Dr. David Notter of Virginia Tech. The source of raw data for the analysis was derived from the fiber test sample data  IAC members submitted to Yocom-McColl Labs, plus fleece weights and shearing dates entered by members themselves.  This includes fleece sample results for the 2007 and 2008 shearing seasons, plus hundreds of records from prior years, and some from early 2009 (prior to mid-April). A total of over 5,500 alpaca fiber test records were used in preparing the summaries.  Test records include fiber tests from more than 4,500 individual alpacas. Alpacas younger than 9 months of age were excluded.
 
Work is currently underway to generate similar results for Suris. It is anticipated these results will be available in December 2009.  In addition, an EPD analysis update is planned for the end of the year. It will include hundreds of additional alpacas from very large farms that were unable to submit results in time for inclusion in the current analysis. In addition, it will include all the submissions made thus far in 2009. If you submitted your fleece samples after about mid-April 2009 your EPDs will be in this analysis. 

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