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Suri alpaca
Vicugna pacos
A breed of Alpaca
Breed of alpaca.
- Family
- Camelidae
Keeping
How it is kept
For Alpaca generally
No keeping details are recorded for this breed yet, so these are the species’.
Kept for
- Fibre
- Temperament
- Gentle, shy and strongly herd-bound
- Mature weight
- 50–85 kg
- Lifespan
- 15–20 years
- Gestation
- 342 days
- Forage
- Efficient grazers that need good grass or hay, clean water and a mineral supplement made for camelids. They eat less than you might expect for their size.
- Housing
- A field shelter from wind and rain and secure fencing. Their shared dung piles make paddocks easy to keep clean.
- Good to know
- Alpacas should be kept in groups of at least three. They are shorn once a year and need their toenails trimmed regularly. Male youngsters should not be bottle-raised alone as pets, because they can become aggressive towards people as adults.
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Suri alpaca
- Slug
- suri-alpaca
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Camelidae
- Genus
- Vicugna
- Species
- pacos
- Cultivar
- Suri alpaca
- Wikidata QID
- Q6136218
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48