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Alpaca packs an $83,000 sales punch
11 Nov 2003
A Mount Compass couple who breed alpacas has sold a young animal, Romanza, for $83,000. The alpaca was sold to a syndicate of breeders from Goulburn, NSW, at the recent National Alpaca Show and Sale, after he won the champion male award for 18 to 30-month-old alpacas. The couple's Ambersun Alpacas dominated the show, winning five of the 10 categories.
The couple, Adrienne Clarke and husband Chris Williams, now have 600 animals. Romanza's sale has helped to repay an investment in some of the world's best alpaca genetics from the US, Peru and Chile. Ambersun paid $207,000 to buy Auzengate, Romanza's grandfather, in the US in 1996.
The $83,000 for Romanza was the highest price paid for an SA alpaca and the third top price paid at auction in Australia. Alpaca fleece fetches $65kg for 18 micron diameter alpaca fibre.
The Advertiser, 5/11/03.
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