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<blockquote data-quote="sidney411" data-source="post: 82489" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>Our neighbor raises Alpacas. They do good at it I'm sure since that are building a huge new house and have 2 brand spanking new diesel crew cab trucks. They are pretty interesting animals. I think he said they carry for 11 months and can breed back about 2 weeks after birth. The females have controlled ovulation therefore thay have not came up with a way to A.I. them. We just happend to be there when they were breeding a pair and it was very unique. The male has to 'romance' the female. If she likes him she will lay down and accept him and release an egg. If she doesn't like him she will kick and spit on him. The male would make all of these wierd "love songs" and nibble of her ears and neck. She acceped in about 5 minutes and they mate for 30 minutes or more. Then in 2 weeks they will put them back together and if she took the 1st time she will kick and spit on the male, that way they know she is bred. They have a champion stud male that they get high prices to have bred to peoples females, so I guess that is how they make their money. They have them sheered once a year I think. There is a guy that comes all the way from Montana to sheer them. They probably have between 30 to 40 breeding animals. That's about all I know - not much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sidney411, post: 82489, member: 430"] Our neighbor raises Alpacas. They do good at it I'm sure since that are building a huge new house and have 2 brand spanking new diesel crew cab trucks. They are pretty interesting animals. I think he said they carry for 11 months and can breed back about 2 weeks after birth. The females have controlled ovulation therefore thay have not came up with a way to A.I. them. We just happend to be there when they were breeding a pair and it was very unique. The male has to 'romance' the female. If she likes him she will lay down and accept him and release an egg. If she doesn't like him she will kick and spit on him. The male would make all of these wierd "love songs" and nibble of her ears and neck. She acceped in about 5 minutes and they mate for 30 minutes or more. Then in 2 weeks they will put them back together and if she took the 1st time she will kick and spit on the male, that way they know she is bred. They have a champion stud male that they get high prices to have bred to peoples females, so I guess that is how they make their money. They have them sheered once a year I think. There is a guy that comes all the way from Montana to sheer them. They probably have between 30 to 40 breeding animals. That's about all I know - not much. [/QUOTE]
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