This series of articles and responses focuses on the debate between Australian sheep breeders regarding Jim Watts' Soft Rolling Skin Selection System. This debate is relevant to alpaca breeders who are focusing on the virtue of selecting for alpacas with high follicular density skin.
The fundamental issue is whether selecting for high follicular density and high secondary to primary fiber ratios will create alpacas that are both fine and dense, or are these characteristics adversarial. I wrote about these ideas in Ideal Alpacas from Myth to Reality.
The articles are from 1995, but the debate is still going on in Australia.
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