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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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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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