Funny Alpacas

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funny llamas

Some funny pictures of these animals, so they know a different facets of these beautiful animals.

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shearing techniques

For this activity there are two distinct methods or techniques:

CREOLE  METHOD 
It is the oldest and most traditional method, where the animal is tied (hobbled) before starting to cut the fleece. Finished cutting release the sheep for shearing the belly and do the tear.

METHOD AUSTRALIAN

It is a method that performs the operations after cutting loose the animal for which the animal is located Shearer sitting and operates from behind it. We begin first by the stomach and ends in the head

Shearing, regardless of technique or method used, can be done by hand with scissors (shears manual) as shown in the images on the right.

They are simply used scissors without major variations from antiquity to the removal of wool from the sheep.

Shearing, regardless of technique or method used, can be done by hand with scissors (shears manual) as shown in the images on the right.

A variation brought by the technology after the Industrial Revolution is the machine to shear (mechanical shearing), which can be fixed or portable, whose images reproduced here.

This machine is used on farms with many sheep population where high productivity with a lower degree of physical demand.

Shearing is done once a year, then the wool is expected to grow again for twelve months, to return to shear in the following summer.

This period should provide adequate nutrition, good health management and even introduce improved genetics to the fold, for animals with higher quality wool.

Shearing of camelids

The shearing is the extraction process American camelids fiber fleece by cutting. Although the production of high quality wool depends mainly on animal genetics, nutrition and climate, the fact remains that proper management techniques shearing animals, contribute greatly to maintain or even exceed the quality of fleece obtained.


General considerations in the harvest of fiber:

Taking the whole process, there are three groups of activities that should be known thoroughly and conscientiously done well for a successful crop of wool:

1. Animal Management
Includes harness to the pens, embretado, grip, holding the animal turned and, Length of the animal, and so on.

2. Actual shearing
Positions involves shearing, shearing methods, relaxation exercises before and after working hours, armed and maintenance of the scissors, etc..


3. conditioning
Covers operations such as fleece up to the areas of collection, cleaning it. proper packaging and wool book, among others.

The Breeds of Llamas

There are two varieties of Lllamas:

Chaku or woolly: Having abundant and long fiber. It is characterized by whole body covered conpelaje, his fleece is very dense.

Kara or peeled: Characterized by having short fiber, which gives the appearance of being bald; inner layer witha very short but fine and an outer layer formed by hairs fuertescomo the guanaco, as well as lack of fiber in the face and legs. The fur color varies from white to black, different shades and sometimes identical to the guanaco decolor. It has a harmonious and balanced training suspartes (head and ears in proportion to the body of the animal), long neck and strong conpresencia of hairs arranged in its posterior region, which gives the appearance of crinde horse. The head and face are clean, sheeplike profile, with large eyes ymirada strong, well set limbs and strong legs. Are large, robust, to the cross measured from 109 to 119 cms., Weighing between 108 to 150 kgs., So quehistóricamente was a beast of burden.

breeds of alpacas

There are two breeds of alpaca: huacaya and suri's. The huacaya is the predominant race and is approximately 90% of the total population of alpacas in the world. Their wool fiber is characterized by its thick curly fleece. The variety of colors is wide, from black to white, red and chocolate brown with a wide variety of tones. The Suri is the rarer breed and represents between 7% and 10% of the population of alpacas in the world. Suri fiber is the most sought due to their special characteristics. Their fleece grows in long and smooth locks that fall vertically to the floor and its fiber is inelastic.

The alpaca can live between 18 and 24 years and continues to produce wool to the end of his life. It is a docile animal, intelligent, loving, shy and curious at the same time, it behaves in an organized and leads a routine life in nature. It erodes the soil where it lives, and cut the grass rather than uproot. It is also characterized by making their needs in one place, facilitating hygiene and maximizes the preservation of their pastures.

 Suri

Huacaya

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

All camelids, have metatarsal glands, cleft lip, polygamous social organization, use of manure, no significant sexual dimorphism and ovulation induced with a single offspring per litter per year.

The 4 species have the same karyotype and can interbreed with each other and produce fertile hybrids.

They also have a productive life of about 14 years, being capable of reproduction at age 2.

They have 3 stomachs, two pairs of pads at the end of the second phalanx, and the last joint is covered with nails, pad, footpad, not damaging the soil by trampling.

The growth of the incisors is continuous, similar to rodents and have elliptical red blood cells, small and anucleares.

They are territorial especially the vicuna and the guanaco forming social groups classified as families, herds of males and lonely, they act in groups, being gregarious.

In situations of aggression flip ears back and lift the face and tail, especially the males during the mating season, they wallow in loose soil, sand or ash and shit on pre-established sites used as signs of territoriality among families.