Our Alpacas are all females.
The Alpaca is a ‘green’ animal. A ‘green animal’ is an easy to care for animal that is light on the land because they have soft padded feet with toes rather than hooves. They live lightly on the earth.
The scientific name for alpaca, Vicuña pacos, reflects its descendancy from the vicugna, an ancient, wild camelid mammal.
Prior to 2001, these animals were called Lama pacos. The alpaca is similar to, and often confused with, the llama (Lama glama). However, alpacas are often noticeably smaller than llamas.
Alpacas make a weird humming sound when they are happy, curious, nervous, or bored. They also grunt, snort and spit.
There are two types of Alpaca. The first is a Suri that has long silky dreadlocks but the ones in Jukani are Huacaya (pronounced as Wakaya) and they are fluffier.
Alpacas are old creatures… really old. Over 6,000 years ago, the ancient Incans of Peru domesticated these animals for their fine fleece. The Incans valued Alpaca fibres over gold!
Alpacas have high quality, hypoallergenic fur (fleece). Alpaca fur is similar to sheep’s wool, but it’s warmer and not itchy.
Their fur is flame and water resistant.
Alpaca’s come in 22 colours and hundreds of shades.
