June 2010
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Breeding for Color
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Date: Thursday June 24, 2010
Two things come to mind as I watched this happening today.
#1. I need a bigger pool
#2. Abenaqui Alpacas needs more color.
Getting a bigger pool seems like an affordable solution to the waiting line here. That and maybe Ambiance could get her entire butt into it rather than letting all the water out by sitting on the edge.
Breeding for color however, that is our goal for 2011.
We have spent this spring looking at males that have been proven to, at times, provide color. It is not as easy as one would think to get color. With whites, you have to look back at the parentage to even begin to see if the dam and sire have the potential for color in their offspring.
Two weekends ago Hazen and Susan of HaSu' Ranch hosted Farmer Steve and I with three of our females for breedings. Unable to progesterone test for 28 days we are still waiting to see if any of those breedings took.
Here is what we have so far:
Odanak X Samson Sunday
Nebis X Sampson Sunday
Mamattegwa X Cannonero
We have two more females we want to breed this year (Peboona and Ambiance). Again we are looking for color. We have arranged to meet some suitors tomorrow at Sea HillFarm Alpacas. We will take a look at Paula and Wendy's males to see what may be a good fit, conformationally and fleece quality, with our girls. We not only plan to look at proven males (males proven to be able to settle females) but we will also entertain ideas of breeding to some of the unproven males over at Sea Hill. It is a great opportunity for us to diversify our genetic program and take a chance on a new male.
When choosing a male to breed to and look to see if they can bring color to light-colored females, I usually check out ARI. The registry has the ability for us to review all breedings to a specific male and the colors they were bred to as well as the resultant color of the offspring. Of course these statistics alone do not indicate the likelihood of what color your cross will result, but it can be a decent indication of what the possibilities are.
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