Kay’sTEN COMMANDMENTS
For Breeding
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1. Establish one-year, five-year, and ten-year goals for your breeding program.
2. Breed only to improve upon your female.
3. Monitor the numbers. Your herd count is a multiple of three of your producing females.
4. Don’t follow the fads.
5. Breed for your utilization interest, be it showing, performance, or pleasure.
6. Breed only when you can emotionally and economically deal with another llama.
7. Plan matings carefully. Consider all aspects of pedigree: conformation, disposition, style, presence.
8. Breed to “name” males unless you have a specific reason to breed to a unproved male or a male of bloodlines that have not yet been extensively tested or used.
9. Recognize that if you really have a feel for breeding, you will make decisions based on your heart and “gut” instincts.
10. Realize that you are responsible for this living, breathing creature you are planning to create. Be sure that cria has the best quality of life that you can provide.
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