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Featured Alpaca – DMAR Antonio

DOB: 10/7/07                                                                Sale Price: $2300

Sire: Cresent Moon’s Tenacity

Dam: AVR By Golly Miss Molly

ARI: 30425200

DMAR Antonio is ready to become your next herdsire. He is a beautiful medium silver grey who is just shy of his 2nd birthday. Antonio’s has great conformation as you can see in his pictures. His legs are straight and his bite is correct. He has full coverage from his top knot to his toes with a typey head. Antonio is a great looking male with a personality to keep you on your toes. He is a little on the mischievious side for if you don’t keep your gates locked he will open them and let everyone out. Just like the typical trouble maker is does it all very quietly, so you don’t realize he is even manipulating the latch until the stall is empty and alpacas are running about.

Antonio’s grandfather is Cresent Moon’s Rayo del Sol, eight time champion. Antonio comes from a long lineage of greys. Unfortunately Antonio is related to all of our darker females, so keeping him just isn’t feasible.

Antonio goes with a full reproductive guarantee. We are also offering up to 6 months agistment (boarding) on him for free in case you are still working on your place.

Click Here for more information on DMAR Antonio.

You can reach us at 520-803-9569 or email at info@desertmtnalpacas.com.

Just In – Results of 2009 FABA Fleece Show for Desert Mountain Alpaca Ranch:

DMAR Armani: First and Reserve Color Champion. This is Armani’s 2nd Reserve Color Champion. He is a yearling and medium brown in color. His Sire is Snowmass Incan Emperor and his dam is Alpha Carina. We are currently selling 1/2 interest on Armani for $5000. To veiw more info on him  Click Here.

DMAR White Russian: 1st Place. Sire is CTA Zecharia and dam is DMAR Athena. Ruski, for short, is a patterned yearling between white and light fawn.

DMAR Royal Knight: 1st Place. This is RK’s second fleece show and is on a streak for taking 1st place. RK  is a light fawn yearling. His Sire is the recently deceased, 105 Peruvian Royal Sun. His dam is GLA Peruvian Alexis. RK is a full Peruvian and 1/2 interest is available on him for $5000. Click Here for more info on RK.

DMAR Dominique: 3rd Place. DMAR Dominique is a medium fawn and this class is very competitive. Dominique is a yearling female with a blue ribbon, a couple of 2nd & 3rd places under her name. Dominique is available for $10,000 with the buyer’s choice in any herdsire owned by DMAR for stud services. Dominique’s sire is HRAZ Lucian. Dam is Kaitlyn-Rose.  Click Here for more info on Dominique.

We did extremely well at this show in placing all four of the fleeces we sent in. Also I have to mention that FABA was wonderful in calling me advising the results. This is rarely done. You usually have to wait for the boxes to return to see if any ribbons were awarded. They were great!

Alpacas-to eat or not to eat is the question. Lately I have heard as well as seen posts on people who have slaughtered their alpacas to eat. Is this right?

In looking at the overall economy I guess I can understand why some ranches decided to do so. After all we are raising the livestock to make money. If your ranch isn’t profitable well you still need to eat and feed your family.

However, this isn’t why I got into alpaca ranching. This is supposed to be a “no-kill” livestock. If Tom and I had gotten into cows, pigs, goats, chickens, etc. then I would expect to one day to slaughter those animals.

We see the alpacas more of pets than a food source. We treat them well and spend plenty of money on them when they are ill. Each one is named and gets our attention. We love to spend time with them and watch each personality grow.

Now this doesn’t mean I have never eaten alpaca. On my trip to Peru I did have a dinner of alpaca. I can say it was very tasty and alpaca is a very lean piece of meat. The difference is that it wasn’t my alpaca that I raised. The meat on my plate had no name and no personality.

So is it right to eat alpaca? At least for today it is not my choice. Take a look at this picture of Antonio and Nikoli….could you eat them?