Alpaca Evaluation Handbook

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The Alpaca Evaluation Handbook shows alpaca owners how to use proven objective criteria to gain essential information for making informed husbandry, breeding, buying and selling decisions.

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The Alpaca Evaluation Handbook

More than two years in the making, The Alpaca Evaluation: A Guide for Owners and Breeders, DVD, CD and Handbook set, shows alpaca owners how to use proven objective criteria to gain essential information for making informed husbandry, breeding, buying and selling decisions.

Using criteria developed by experts in 1996, Pat Long DVM, & Eric Hoffman, demonstrate the techniques they have used to evaluate the structural soundness, phenotype characteristics, and fiber quality of alpacas for registries around the world.

A 3 hour DVD, of National Geographic quality, filmed in Peru and North America by Silverwood Productions, allows you to learn from the experts. Long and Hoffman demystify alpaca evaluation. They present an evaluation overview, the complete evaluation of a single alpaca, and a compilation of video clips and still images to illustrate a wide range of characteristics that may be found in an evaluation. Following their hands-on demonstration, scores are explained to help owners utilize their evaluation results.

Individual DVD chapters give in-depth information on the objective evaluation techniques for phenotype characteristics, body condition, teeth, jaws, eyes, ears, airflow through nostrils, spinal and reproductive systems, locomotion, leg soundness, heart, hernias and fiber.

The Alpaca Evaluation Handbook, a fully referenced 120-page text with more than 150 color photographs, tables, graphs, and illustrations. Expands the evaluation techniques shown on the DVD. The handbook explains what to look for, why it is important, and presents the history and ongoing scientific discussions of the evaluation criteria. Scoring, and considerations for using evaluation results are included in each chapter.

The Alpaca Evaluation includes:
Handbook 120 pages
Covering:

chapter 1: History of objective alpaca evaluation
chapter 2: Alpaca evaluation area set-up
chapter 3: Identification, weight and height
chapter 4: Species differentiation
chapter 5: Head
chapter 6: Body condition score (BCS)
chapter 7: Spinal system and tail
chapter 8: Locomotion, Proportion and Balance
chapter 9: Leg Conformation
chapter 10: Peproduction
chapter 11: Heart
chapter 12: Hernias
chapter 13: Parasites
chapter 14: Fiber
Attachments: Templates and Evaluation Forms

DVD +/-3 hrs

DVD1:

chapter 1: Alpaca Prehistory
chapter 2: Fiber processing for the international market
chapter 3: Alpaca's Vicugnas, Lama's and Guanaco's
South America's Camelid family

DVD 2:

chapter 4: Breeding and screening for world wide export (Andean source herds)
chapter 5: History of screening
chapter 6: Explanation of the alpaca evaluation form
chapter 7: Evaluation set up
chapter 8: Hands on, objectively evaluating alpaca's
Part 1 - overview
Part 2 - one alpaca's evaluation

DVD 3:

chapter 8: Hands on
Part 3 - Evaluation variations and discussion
chapter 9: Fiber Analysis: Yocom McColl Laboratories
chapter 10: Interpreting the alpaca evaluation results.

Includes interviews with

Dr. Jane Wheeler: explains alpaca prehistory, and the development of fine fleeces.

Derek Mitchell, Juan Pepper and Narcisa Quispe Tanca:
offer a multi-faceted portrait of fiber processing and international marketing.
Eric Hoffman: gives a hands-on comparison of South America’s camelid breeds and species.
Jose Gomez (president Rural Alianza) en Dr. Jose Apaza: explain the breeding and fiber goals of the world’s largest alpaca operation.
Angus McColl: takes you behind the scenes at Yocom-McColl Testing Laboratories, Inc. to watch the creation of a histogram.

The Alpaca Evaluation Form CD simplifies scoring and record keeping. The icon based form changes the technical language of the original screening evaluation into a user-friendly format. The authors have created an evaluation tool that can be understood in any language and used by lay persons as well as animal care professionals.

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