Alpaca Fleece Education

June 20, 2009
Fleeces-to-Go hosted The Facts about Your Fiber and its Success in the Marketplace.
18 dedicated suri breeders attended this fiber educational seminar and Fleeces-to-Go was proud to support and host this event

How to Evaluate Your Fleece Scorecard!
When you first look at your scorecard remember this is an absolute scoring system.  A perfect fleece will earn a score of 100. The scoring then is deducted based on faults detected in the fleece.  A score of 50 means that fleece probably on a whole is average.  Anything above 50 would reason to say it is an above average fleece.  The next step then is to look at the individualized points awarded for the judged characteristics.  Again reason that any score 50% or above means average to above average.

I recommend you enter your fleeces in several shows during the year. Enter for different judges, regions, and levels so you get a well rounded evalution!

You can then start to look at each characteristics point and see what you need to breed  for your next generation. Use this data along with the upcoming EPDs that are currently being generated to make scientifically and well thought out breeding decisions that will increase your fleece quality for your next
level of crias!

Good Luck and remember to let Fleeces-to-Go help manage
your fleeces!

Do you know the fleece terms and do you understand the key characteristics for evaluating fleece and how these affect your overall score in fleece show competitions?

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