{"id":702,"date":"2013-11-16T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criagenesis.cc\/?p=702"},"modified":"2015-12-06T02:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T02:53:39","slug":"culling-and-selecting-alpacas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/culling-and-selecting-alpacas\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting and culling alpacas"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following are words of wisdom by Dr. Bruce McGregor, Senior Research Fellow – Animal Fibres, Deakin University, Australia:<\/p>\n
“There is a higher risk attached with alpaca selection using samples taken earlier than 2 years of age. Fleece sampling and genetic selection of alpacas greater than 3 years of age will produce an opportunity cost of delaying the potential benefits from earlier selection of alpacas.<\/em><\/p>\n In order to identify animals that exhibit micron blowout, successive annual measurements of mean fibre diameter are required. To reduce the cost of this operation, the testing of sires would appear more cost effective than testing the entire herd.<\/em><\/p>\n To reduce the average mean fibre diameter of an alpaca herd and to reduce the incidence of medullated fibres, the alpaca industry needs to:<\/em><\/p>\n His final RIRDC report on improving alpaca fibre may be downloaded as a PDF for free,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following are words of wisdom by Dr. Bruce McGregor, Senior Research Fellow – Animal Fibres, Deakin University, Australia: “There is a higher risk attached with alpaca selection using samples taken earlier… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n