www.lamalink.com MAY 2009 Ozark Llama Classic Sale 21 Consignment of Randy Cipriano RTC Llama Ranch, Garland, NE Consignment of Gerald & Loretta Abbott Abbott’s Big Sky Ranch, Moiese, MT Consignment of Jacob Mumford Evergreen Llamas, Ridgefield, WA Scoopy Dew RTC Male DOB: 10/13/08 ILR# 275230 Penelope ABSR Bred Female DOB: 9/13/06 ILR# 268690 Service Sire: Argentine Kobra’s Kornerstone Due Date: September 2009 Eye Of The Storm’s Tempest Bred Female DOB: 2/15/06 ILR# 268367 Service Sire: WLK Katalyst Due Date: June/July 2009 Argentine Fresco RTC #LL-R233492 PH Ruby Dew #LL-R260265 Chilean Has It All #LL-R225565 Chilean Xavier ABSR #LL-R254778 Chilean Blushing Debutante #LL-S170992 Casino #LL-R109597 Copper Penny ABSR #LL-R212638 SR Snoball #LL-R70464 Peruvian Keno PC-1 Eye Of The Storm Escapada TNTDL Bolivian Jocko TNTDL Gracious Stage Stop Heaven Sent This outstanding young male sell with our RTC Ranch “Show” guarantee. Call or E-mail for questions. Silky fiber, great structure, proven pedigree and half Argentine. Scoopy Dew RTC has a great disposition, ears, fiber, and structure. He will be a fantastic show animal!! Call RTC Llama Ranch 402-588-2258 or visit our Website www.rtcllamaranch.com. Penelope is ¾ Chilean and is bred to Argentine Kobra’s Kornerstone for a September 2009 cria. For more information contact us at 406-644-3130 or email [email protected]. This beauty is a 4th generation Suri coming from the superior Suri Genetics of Peruvian Keno and Peruvian Maximo. Her pedigree also boasts lots of E-line, and the late great Bolivian Jocko on the dam side. Her sire is “Eye Of The Storm” who produced many Champions for Glenmor Forest Llamas in Oregon, and is now producing more winners for the famed Aloha Llama program also in Oregon. Tempest is sweet and gentle and very easy to handle. Her suri fleece has nice lock, and a very cool slick handle. The “cherry on top” of this deal is the fact that she is bred to an award winning son of Wilken’s Heatwave, WLK Katalyst, and is due in late June or early July. The only way you can possibly lose on this deal is to not have this girl in the back of your trailer when the sale is finished! Lot 52 Lot 53 Lot 54
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www.lamalink.com May 2009 Ozark Llama Classic Sale 21
Consignment of Randy CiprianoRTC Llama Ranch, Garland, NE
Consignment of Gerald & Loretta AbbottAbbott’s Big Sky Ranch, Moiese, MT
Consignment of Jacob MumfordEvergreen Llamas, Ridgefield, WA
Scoopy Dew RTCMale DOB: 10/13/08 ILR# 275230
Penelope ABSRBred Female DOB: 9/13/06 ILR# 268690
Service Sire: Argentine Kobra’s Kornerstone Due Date: September 2009
Eye Of The Storm’s TempestBred Female DOB: 2/15/06 ILR# 268367
Service Sire: WLK Katalyst Due Date: June/July 2009
Argentine Fresco RTC #LL-R233492
PH Ruby Dew #LL-R260265
Chilean Has It All #LL-R225565Chilean Xavier ABSR #LL-R254778 Chilean Blushing Debutante #LL-S170992
Casino #LL-R109597Copper Penny ABSR #LL-R212638 SR Snoball #LL-R70464
Peruvian Keno PC-1Eye Of The Storm Escapada
TNTDL Bolivian JockoTNTDL Gracious Stage Stop Heaven Sent
This outstanding young male sell with our RTC Ranch “Show” guarantee. Call or E-mail for questions. Silky fiber, great structure, proven pedigree and half Argentine. Scoopy Dew RTC has a great disposition, ears, fiber, and structure. He will be a fantastic show animal!! Call RTC Llama Ranch 402-588-2258 or visit our Website www.rtcllamaranch.com.
Penelope is ¾ Chilean and is bred to Argentine Kobra’s Kornerstone for a September 2009 cria. For more information contact us at 406-644-3130 or email [email protected].
This beauty is a 4th generation Suri coming from the superior Suri Genetics of Peruvian Keno and Peruvian Maximo. Her pedigree also boasts lots of E-line, and the late great Bolivian Jocko on the dam side. Her sire is “Eye Of The Storm” who produced many Champions for Glenmor Forest Llamas in Oregon, and is now producing more winners for the famed Aloha Llama program also in Oregon. Tempest is sweet and gentle and very easy to handle. Her suri fleece has nice lock, and a very cool slick handle. The “cherry on top” of this deal is the fact that she is bred to an award winning son of Wilken’s Heatwave, WLK Katalyst, and is due in late June or early July. The only way you can possibly lose on this deal is to not have this girl in the back of your trailer when the sale is finished!
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SarandaPatronis x Sara Lee
arielPatronis x Chilean Aerio
roSeniaPatronis x Rosada
roSalitaPatronis x Rosada
Peruvian PatronisNow living in Missouri with CriVen Llamas
Purchase Your Breeding To Patronis at the Ozark Llama Classic!! All Proceeds will be Awarded the Best Male and Best Female in the Show!!
Thank you to Robin and Courtnee Benson of Sapaveco Ranches for their purchase of CTW Halo & CTW Starcatcher! Look for our Ozark Consignments - Lots 18 & 48 for more great opportunities from Catawissa!
28 Dos Pondos Dos Llamos Home of the Movie Star Minis! by Lynda Carothers 32 Will I Have It When I Need It by Cathy Spalding
25 Linking-Up Interview with Dr. Walter Bravo by Sue Wilde 36 Where To Be 37 Classified Advertising
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a typical alpaca owner in Peru with his family and his animals in the background.
The llama industry should be proud of this exposure. I know we most certainly are at Minnesota Minis! Three of the minis were used in the newest HBO release of Chrissa, an american Girl released in late January 2009.
Just as most of us have a cupboard in our kitchen, bath… or both… containing a wide variety of useful -- though perhaps not often needed – items, so it is that we should have a toolbox, tackle box or cupboard containing useful items specifically for our alpacas and/or llamas.
A group of healthy crias in the Peruvian highlands.
Welcome to the Link Dr. Bravo. Tell us about where you are from originally and how you started working with llamas and alpacas.
I was born and raised in the Peruvian highlands, specifically in Cusco, Peru, a city close to the famous ruins of Machupicchu. I started working with llamas and alpacas in 1973. On my first job, which was mainly in charge of prevention and treatment of about 80,000 sheep, there were also 10,000 alpacas and a small herd of about 300 llamas. It was a good job and everything that I did was only preventive medicine. I still remember vividly that during the lambing season (2-3 months) I used to live on the saddle of the horse every single day with the exception of Sundays. And, in the case of alpacas I was again on the saddle a second period of 2 months making sure that crias were taken care of and again, doing preventive medicine.
Describe your early work and re-search before coming to North America.
After 5-6 years working for two important big co-operatives (Picotani and Marangani, by the way this second cooperative used to have more than 20,000 alpacas, I decide to go back to academia with a good background of field experience. I was an Assistant Professor for San Marcos University at La Raya Research Center. At this place I did some teaching and basic research on animal production. At this point also I emphasized my work on reproductive issues of llamas and alpacas.
What brought you to United States? What was your involvement with llamas and alpacas here?
While working in Peru I was always thinking to pursue a graduate education and the opportunity came to come to Utah State University in 1983 and I started to work under the direction of Warren C. Foote a famous sheep researcher and teacher that had a collaborative program with Peru. After finishing my Masters program I applied to University of California, Davis where I met Dr. Murray E. Fowler, the father of llama medicine, and I did work under his direction and also under the supervision of the late Dr. George H. Stabenfeldt, very famous for his work in hormones in cats (also induced ovulators, like llamas and alpacas).
What areas of your research do you think have been most valuable to
llama and alpaca breeders? What can breeders be doing to manage their herds most effectively for optimum results in their breeding programs?
The response to this question is long and I will try to summarize it. In the female side my PhD work defined the occurrence of ovarian follicular waves in females. The size of follicles ready to ovulate and the response of the brain, the pituitary gland to be more specific, were determined. In addition, the best time of breeding was also determined. This is the basic knowledge that every veterinarian and owner/breeder of llamas and alpacas applies to his/her breeding program. Also, some of the most common ailments of the reproductive system were determined, not only from the point of physical sizes of follicles but most important from the hormonal point of view.
On the male side, I did characterize the basic semen characteristics of males that are involved in a breeding program. This work was also related to size and fertility of the male. Again, this is the basic knowledge that is used now worldwide.
As far as how to manage breeding of llamas and alpacas, the response is that 80% of females are normal and about 90% of sires are also normal. Follow the
A typical alpaca owner in Peru with his family and his animals
