Saturday, May 21, 2016

Alpaca, Moe Than Just A Tame Animal

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.

For their great outdoors, rivers and mountains are mostly the ones that get the most attention. This part of the country also has an attachment to a certain animal of the camel family. They are alpaca Nashville, which look a lot like llamas, except that these animals are more domesticated.

In the United States, its history goes back to about six thousand years after people in Peru have learned how to domesticate it. They have originated from North America and were found to have migrated in the South of the continent in around three million years. These animals are known to like those Andes Mountains better.

The Peruvian locals had then learned how to domesticate them. And that has rewarded them in ten folds. Sometimes they are mistaken for llamas, but they are smaller in size. Although they come from the same family, the quality in their hide which later on becomes fiber, are different.

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.

Herding them also paved the way to the success of trade in textiles, since they are highly in demand. Although there have been distinctions in the types of cloth that followed suit, after it has become popular, the alpaca still remains to be a favorite. Made of the best quality, the rest of the world loves them too.

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 are just times that their reaction towards wolves, coyotes and the like, is abused. People would tend to let them stand guard for a whole herd of sheep which is not fair. They are not big dogs or shepherds. They should be taken care of, since these beasts bring money to the house. If not, then you are not a good master or breeder.

Especially, since these days, the trade industry have highly benefited from its production too. Since the day they were domesticated, the alpaca has paved way to wealth for its owners from where they have come from. That is why in breeding them, one has to be careful and pay attention to their genetical order.




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