Customer Services ~ Index
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 Customer Services Commencing the Industry
    Animal Care and Maintenance
    Vital Information and Services
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 Library Misc. Articles
    Newspaper Articles
    Books
    Videos
     

 

 

Tambo Downs Client Services

Commencing the Industry

Animal Care and Maintenance

We provide a comprehensive Care and Maintenance list with all sales for :-
Brown Cria
Brown Cria

  • Wethers
  • Pregnant Females
  • Crias


 

 



Vital Information and Services:

We provide a list of Alpaca Industry & Management requirements to run and breed Alpacas on farm. This is vital information for new breeders.

  • An animal husbandry, inventory list
  • Client education
  • Invitation to attend husbandry days

 

 

  • We attend field days and promote the industry to educate the public and promote our genetic profile
  • We provide an extensive library of reading material for our clients
  • We offer the service of showing your animals when applicable
  • We help clients with their business plan and design animal packages accordingly
Alpacas "on show"
Suri at Field Days
  • We design breeding programs for genetic improvement for our clients
  • We we assist your sales of your animals of our genetics on our web site www.alpacasforsale.com.au
  • We provide veterinary certificate for breeding animals sold
  • We provide histograms and make our animals available for clients to take their own fleece sample for testing. We are happy to demonstrate our fleece quality
  • We guarantee our breeding stock to be fertile

 

Crias in paddock
We breed coloured and white
  • We guarantee a live Cria on the ground or repeat mating
  • We deliver stock to clients
  • We halter train sold animals when requested by clients
  • We can provide terms with sales
  • Our aim is to make your start in the industry a positive and enjoyable experience and one that will work for you
Alpacas - children friendly
Alpacas are 'children friendly' animals
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Tambo Downs Library

Articles

(a) Fibre & production
Peter Lamb, Fibre metrology of wool and its applicability to Alpaca, CSIRO Wool Technology, Alpacas Australia, Issue 27, 1999, p38-44.
Cameron Holt, Dr Julio Sumar on selection, Alpacas Australia, Issue 29, 1999, p 48-52.
Peter Lamb, Wool Fibre Processing, CSRIO Wool Technology, Alpacas Australia, Issue 30, 2000, p 5-12.
Cameron Holt, Statistically Speaking, Alpacas Australia, Issue 35, 2001, p 14-19.
Geoff Lenehan, Alpaca: The Fibre of the Gods, www.alpaca.asn.au
Robert Pearce, Processing of Alpaca: Systems, Fibre Parameters and the Future, www.alpaca.asn.au
Ian Knox, Alpaca Fibre, www.alpaca.asn.au
Cameron Holt, Basic Measurement of Alpaca, www.alpaca.asn.au

(b) Genetics
Author Unknown, Suri X Huacaya, Alpacas Australia, Issue 21,1997, p17-18.
Mike Safley, Pureblood 1,Alpacas Australia, Issue 25, 1998, p16-22.
Mike Safley, Pureblood 2, Alpacas Australia, Issue 26, 1999, p 18-30.
Mike Safley, Pureblood 3, Alpacas Australia, Issue 27, 1999, p 6-20.
Mike Safley, Pureblood 4a, Alpacas Australia, Issue 28, 1999, p 44-54.
Mike Safley, Pureblood 4b, Alpacas Australia, Issue 29, 1999, p 41-47.
A.A. Charry, A. Clymo. J. and J. Lawrie. R. O'Donoghue, P. Savage, D. Owen and G. Sutherland, Fleece Evaluation of Stud Alpacas for Selective Mating, Alpacas Australia, Issue 27, 1999, p 57-63.
Elizabeth Paul B.App.Sci.,(App.Biology)R.M.I.T., Cert. Animal Technology, F.I.T., Theory of colour inheritance in Alpacas, Alpacas Australia, Issue 28, 1999, p 10-17.
Elizabeth Paul B.App.Sci.,(App.Biology)R.M.I.T., Cert.Animal Technology, F.I.T., The Status of White and Red Alpacas in the Australian Herd, Alpacas Australia, Issue 30, 2000, p 40-44.
Elizabeth Paul B.App.Sci.,(App.Biology) R.M.I.T., Cert. Animal Technology,F.I.T., An Update of Alpaca Fleece Colours, Alpacas Australia, Issue 31, 2000, p 20-23.
Australian Alpaca Association, Alpaca Breed Standard, Alpacas Australia, Issue 31, 2000, p 32-34.
Adrienne Clarke, Spot the Difference, Alpacas Australia, Issue 32, 2000, p 28.
Matt Ridley, Haldane's Influence Undiminished, Alpacas Australia, Issue 34, 2001, p 30-33.
Elizabeth Paul B.App.Sci.,(App.Biology) R.M.I.T., Cert. Animal Technology,F.I.T., Fleece Colours 2001, Alpacas Australia, Issue 35, 2001, p 22-25.
Elizabeth Paul B.App.Sci., (App.Biology) R.M.I.T., Cert. Animal Technology,F.I.T., Colour Variation in Alpacas, Alpacas Australia, Issue 37, 2002, p 26-27.
R.W Ponzoni, D.J.Hubbard, R.V. Kenyon, C.D. Tuckwell, B.A. McGregor, Andrea Howse, I. Carmichael, and G.J. Judson. Phenotypes Resulting From Huacaya by Huacaya, Suri by Huacaya and Suri by Suri Alpaca Crossings, www.alpaca.asn.au

(c) Suri
Sandra Keane, A pot of gold at the end of the Chilean rainbow?, Alpacas Australia, Issue 28, 1999, p 30-37.
Stephanie Popes talks with Beatriz Canedo Patino, Suri - Not Just Coats any More, Alpacas Australia, Issue 30,2000, p 24-26.
Julienne & Frank Gelber, 47th Pitti Immagine Filati - Fashion, Alpacas Australia, Issue 33, 2000, p 24-25.
Stephanie Pope, From Hembras to Hemlines, Alpacas Australia, Issue 32, 2000, p 8-11.
Based on article by Juan Pepper, Suri Fibre Processing, Alpacas Australia, Issue 26, 1999, p 16-17.
Sandi Keane, We set a benchmark, Alpacas Australia, Issue 25, 1998, p 34.

(d) Animal Management
Dr George Jackson (Vet), Confinement of Alpacas, Fat or Unfit, Alpacas Australia, Issue 35, 2001, p 4.
Jill Winter, Drought Proof Your Farm, Alpacas Australia, Issue 35, 2001, p 6.
Dr Richard Dixon, B.V.Sc. Stocking Rates, Alpacas Australia, Issue 36, 2001, p 4-5.
Bill Robbins, Alpacas as Guards, Alpacas Australia, Issue 37, 2002, p 6.
LaRue Johnson, Herd Health & Management, www.alpaca.asn.au

(e) Industry
Kate Graham, International eyes on Oz, says Aki, Alpacas Australia, Issue 29, 1999, p 8-12.

(f) History & background
Derek Michell, The Alpaca Trade, www.alpaca.asn.au

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Newspaper Articles

Graeme O'Neill, Our Rumpelstiltskin spins fibres into gold, Sunday Herald Sun, June 9, 2002. (See extract)


Books

Ewen McMillan & Allan & Carolyn Jinks, Alpaca Breeder's Birthing Handbook, Alpaca Publications Australia.
Ewen McMillan & Carolyn Jinks, Alpaca Breeder's Reproduction Handbook, Alpaca Publications Australia
Bradford B. Smith,DVM,PhD, Karen I. Timm, DVM, PhD, Patrick O. Long, DVM, Llama and Alpaca Neonatal Care, Bixby Press, Inc.
AAA Inc., International Alpaca Industry Seminar 1994, Australian Alpaca Association.
AAA Inc., International Alpaca Industry Conference 1998, The Australian Alpaca Association.
AAA Industry, National Conference 2002, The Australian Alpaca Association.
Gabriele Gramiccia, The life of Charles Ledger (1818-1905), The Macmillan Press Ltd.
Michael Safley, Synthesis of a Miracle, Printed in Canada.


Videos

An introduction to Commercial Alpaca Shearing, Produced by AAA.

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