By Mike Safley
Alpacas come in many colors; on occasion, too many colors. Dark-colored fleeces with the occasional light-colored fiber spread throughout the blanket have one color too many. White fleeces, with the odd fawn or black fiber hidden among the white ones, are equally at fault. The subject of color definitions, roan, grey, and multies is a hot potato tossed between the show rules committee, judges, the AOBA Board, show management, and exhibitors. If alpaca breeders do not discriminate against solid colored alpacas with the occasional off-color fiber in their fleece, the problem could haunt them for sometime. In my opinion males that lack uniformly colored fleeces should not be herd sires. Read more
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