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Mike Safley has owned alpacas since 1984. Mike is a past president of the Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association (AOBA), the Alpaca Registry Inc., and was founding editor of Alpacas magazine. Mike owns and operates Northwest Alpacas and alpacas.com.

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Friday, January 14, 2005

Animal Selection

Thumbs Down for Random Mating

From Beyond the Bale, Issue 1, August 2002. Australian Wool Inovation Limited - Selective Breeding at Pooginook

Pooginook, one of Australia's best-known Merino studs, says its breeding trials show that random mating, the industry's most common practice, is costing breeders time and money.

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