Alpacas Pedigrees: Basis of Champion Alpacas

We now have no less than seventy first-place award-winning females in our breeding program, as well as Grand Champion and National Champion males and females. All of our show winners are second-generation and third-generation American bred, American born alpacas.

When we talk about pedigree, it represents documented quality, generation after generation. Award-winning pedigrees are the blueprint for success of the North American alpaca industry. At Park View Alpacas, award-winning pedigrees are more than just one generation deep.

PVA Mahogany Prince (far right) with his AOBA National Show Champion offspring, (left to right) Montoya of PVA, KOBE of PVA and Keanu of PVA

Supreme Champion KOBE of PVA

KOBE'S Supreme Champion son, Diamonte of PVA

The New Black and White Collection By Diamonte of PVA

We maintain our commitment to buying and breeding only the best, to design and create the generation of the future.

As we attended the recent AOBA National Show, multiple alpaca breeders approached us with questions regarding the success of our breeding program. Although their questions were directed as to how we personally developed one of the most successful breeding programs in North America, what they were essentially asking is how we achieve the quality and predictability, year after year. The answer is really quite simple: Pay attention to documented pedigree. That is the ticket to predictability.

When we refer to pedigree, we are not talking about a pedigree that states that an alpaca's ancestors supposedly originated in a certain country or at a certain ranch. Rather, we are referring to a pedigree of documented consistent quality. Studying the available documentation regarding the quality within the pedigree will certainly provide clues relating to the predictability. For instance, if a male has been bred to only a dozen or so females per year and has produced multiple major show winners, year after year, it's success and predictability has a vastly different meaning than the male who has been bred to literally hundreds of females and yet has produced only a proportionately limited number of animals who have achieved such accomplishments.

We have personally achieved great success with both our Huacaya and Suri breeding programs. In regard to the Suri aspect of our breeding program, we never breed to any Suri male who has produced a Huacaya offspring. We personally coined the term "Purification of the Breed" as this is obviously a very important concept to us. The goal of Park View has always been to establish consistency in quality and predictability, through domestic-born documented pedigree, generation after generation. We are very pleased that we have achieved our goal! Indeed, no Suri, male or female, ever produced by Park View Alpacas has produced a Huacaya, and we have been in the business for ten years.

Our landmark decisions regarding pedigree are certainly not limited to our Suris. Our show-winning Huacaya females are bred to only the best herdsires available. We currently co-own two of the best domestic-born, documented males: Wellington out of "Accoyo" Augusto and Millenium, a multiple Grand Champion male out of 4Peruvian "Accoyo" Legacy. We have also bred some of our best Grand Champion colored females to other award-winning males such as colored Royal Apollo.

Grand Champions out of Grand Champions, domestic-born documented multigenerational Champion pedigree—this is the ticket to predictability! This is the ticket to the success of our breeding program in the past and of other alpaca breeding programs in the future!

Park View All American Alpacas
David, Nancy & Nick TenHulzen
3001 SW Schaeffer Road
West Linn, Oregon 97068
1-888-4-ALPACAS (888-425-7222)
Phone: 503-638-3692
Fax: 1-503-638-PACA (7222)
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