Friday, May 20, 2016

The Art Of Breeding Alpaca In The Farms

By Barbara Baker


Tennessee is a state known for many things, especially music. This is because its largest city, Nashville is the home of American Country music and legends like Kenny Rogers, Blake Shelton, Dolly Parton often performs there. Not only that. Music City is also famous for its outdoors.

More than however, it is also great for its outdoors and animals in farmlands. Speaking of which, for many years, people there have bred alpaca Nashville because they are tamed and domesticated. These beasts have grazed the high Andes Mountains of South America, for about three million years. Yet they have established a certain kind of popularity that is unmatched by any other animal, when it comes to the clothing industry.

Although you would not want to forget where they had originated from. Over three million years ago these beasts, coming from the camel family had been found, nameless in North America. According to history however, the alpacas developed and came to be grazing in the mountains of the Andes in South America for six thousand years.

Thus, people learned to domesticate them so that their coat can be used for wool. Before long, the uses of their fur became widely known all over the world in the textile and fashion industry. In the camel family, it is by far the smallest, standing only up to three feet in height and two hundred twenty five centimeters wide.

Being a ruminant, the beast has a stomach in three chambers that is used for digesting the food they like to eat. They belong to the herbivores that are why they like to feed mostly on vegetables and plants. They also eat stems and barks of trees. Unlike other animals, they do not transfer somewhere else to urinate. They do it wherever they are located.

This had proven the claims of Peruvians who had trained them many years ago. They were able to take advantage to its many uses, especially in the growing textile market. The Trend had evolved and the demand for it has grown, and with good reason. Being herbivores, alpacas eat grass, plants, shrubs and even tree branches or figs.

Since they came from the same family, they can also successfully breed with llamas, the result being a huarizo. This breed is highly valued because of its beautiful fleece which turns out to be a useful type and the most stylish of its kind, when sewn as a garment already. Aside from that, they are known to be gentler than their parents.

There is a broad in the country that ensures high standards of breeding them so that they are maintained. This was formed shortly after they have become exported from Peru. Their hair, like the sheep is often referred to as fleece. It might not be golden but people find it just as valuable because of its many uses.

The fashion world depends on them to bring out some of the finest clothes in the finest styles. Because they are widely used for ponchos, sweaters, gloves and other type of garments, their fleece is valuable. It makes for a trendy style, made of the best quality. And you would not think it came from them, but it does.




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