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Fleece, Fibre, Grading and Skirting will be the subject of our next AEG workshop on 27th May. Full info on the Courses button.
The educational and illuminating new AOBA book titled the Art and Science of Alpaca Judging is now available from us through the web shop. Secure your copy now. Click the Online Shop button for full details of this bible for the alpaca breeder.
Our next show is the SWAG Spring Show at The Hand Centre in Clevedon on April 14 and 15. Do drop by for a chat.
If you are looking for pet males, weanling males who will be stud males when they are old enough and weanling females please get in touch or click the large alpacas for sale button . We have just been through all our youngsters and have selected some fantastic alpacas for sale.
We are delighted to report that our two young stud males CME Socrates (fawn) and CME Prometheus (brown) both took the Reserve Championships at the British Alpaca Futurity 2012. This is in addition to most of our 24 entries reaching the front line amidst such fantastic competition from all the breeders present.
Our jointly owned male Dovecote Jaquinto was Futurity Champion Huacaya Herdsire at the British Alpaca Futurity 2011. Classical MileEnd Xerxes, a Tulaco Centurion son, was Show Champion, Fawn Male Champion and the Best of British at Devon County Show and our team won two other championships and five reserve championships. CME Xerxes was Best of British at the Royal Bath & West whilst CME Flora and CME Socrates were also Champions.
Chas Brooke and Rachel Hebditch have been breeding alpacas for fifteen years and run a herd of 200 animals. We love our alpacas and are hugely enthusiastic about our breeding programme which is designed to produce healthy productive alpacas with excellent conformation and advanced fleeces.
You are welcome to visit our farm, just outside Tiverton in Devon, where we can meet and answer your questions in person and show you our beautiful alpacas. Please e-mail or telephone to make an appointment.
Are you looking for your own Herd Sire ? We have on offer some stunning young herd sires. Fawns and Brown by CME Centurion, four Whites by TAS Jaquinto and a Black by BOZ Kazzan. Click on this link Featured Alpacas or select the Alpacas for Sales box, then select the Featured Alpacas box on the sales page. All multiple award winning boys, take a look ! **Herodotus, Pelias, Tarquin and Cavaliere now sold **
We still have a few pet or sheep/lamb guard males from 2010 available at £250 ea
NEW Courses just added. The Devon Alpaca Events Group are offering a number of new and informative workshops in 2012, and we are also adding another shearing course as the response to the first one exceeded the spaces available. Please check them out by selecting the Alpaca Courses Button in the right hand panel.
New owners can rely on us to train them in alpaca husbandry and deliver a first class back up service.
Experienced breeders can be sure that we have thought carefully about every breeding and that our stud males are among the best in the world.
We have a wide range of alpacas for sale from show winning males and females, pregnant females with cria at foot and stud males to charming geldings who make wonderful field pets or sheep and flock guards.
There are educational courses at our farm in Devon throughout the year at very reasonable prices. The beginners course Discover Alpacas, the Stud Management Day or the Fibre Workshop. Or, if none of these suit, we can design a course especially for you.
We publish Alpaca World magazine, run UK Alpaca which manufactures alpaca yarns and write a blog Rachel’s Diary on the day to day life of an alpaca farmer.
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Chas & Rachel and Classical MileEnd Alpacas are members of | The British Alpaca Society | The South West Alpaca Group (SWAG) | The Australian Alpaca Assoc (AAA) | Alpaca Owners and Breeders Assoc USA (AOBA) | The Alpaca Registry Inc (ARI) | and our alpacas are registered with the British Alpaca Society Registry.
We are a founding member breeder of the Alpaca Bloodstock Breeders Association (ABBA) and the British Alpaca Futurity
We own the internationally circulated Alpaca World Magazine and the fibre to yarn company UK Alpaca Ltd
