Aquaviva Alpacas
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Where We Are We are located in North Canterbury, New Zealand. We have built our new farm at Fernside, close to Rangiora. At Fernside, we have 10 acres and most of this is in paddock (although we shall keep a small garden as we also love gardening as our relaxation). We bought our first three breeding females in late 2002. Now our herd consists of 17 alpacas - with most of our crias sold either overseas or within New Zealand. Out of all crias born at our farm, 20% of our crias have gone on to win National Champion titles (some for more than one year for different age-groups) and 20% have won Supreme Championship titles. Also 18% have been exported and we had an alpaca selected for the 2011 National Auction (Cadbury). These figures were current at the end of the 2011 Expo where three of our crias won broad ribbons (Hermes - National Junior Male Champion Huacaya Fleece, Titus - National Mature Male Champion Huacaya Fleece and Quintus - Reserve Champion Adult Male Huacaya).We are thrilled with our stud male, Achilles who has sired for us the winners of Supreme Champion Huacaya Fleece Canterbury Show 2011, National Junior Male Champion Huacaya Fleece, Champion Brown Huacaya Expo, Supreme Champion Brown Huacaya at South Island Colourbration plus a host of other broad ribbons. He is available for limited outside matings so contact us if you would like to consider using him this season. Hermes (2011 National Champion Junior Male Huacaya Fleece and Supreme Champion Huacaya Fleece Canterbury A&P Show) is now offered for sale as a stud male. Click here for further details and make us an offer.  Our Goals Our aim is to breed high quality fawn alpacas. Our show success and feedback from other breeders regarding our herd makes our hard work over the past few years well worth the effort. We define high quality alpacas as having excellent conformation as well as fleece characteristics, including low micron, coverage extending to the extremities of the body, well-defined crimp, good shear weight, consistency through the fleece and the ability to hold these qualities for many years.
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