Our Suri Breeding Program

We own and breed only ARI registered suri alpacas.  Our foundation herd sire Accoyo Pperuvian Bruxo is among the most famous Suri herdsires in North America.  The name Accoyo means many things in the alpaca world.  We're grateful for the opportunity to breed with Bruxo's fine, uniform suri genetics.  Bruxo is the source of the great genetics of studs like Macguyver and his offspring (Captain Morgan and many others), as well as Helios, Luxor, and many, many other great suris.

Our breeding priorities are vigor, luster, fineness, uniformity and fiber density.  Correct conformation and bite are fundamental requirements in the selection of stud males.  These goals can be reached by using for breeding only the top 5% of males.  We believe these goals are reached, in major part, by rigorously culling or gelding males that don't measure up to our high standards.  Thus we offer a strong line in wonderful gelding alpacas.  We offer non-breeding boys with a business plan for a fiber farm, shearing suri alpaca fiber for textile markets.

One part of the foundation of breeding suris is understanding the relationship between suri and huacaya alpacas.  These two types of alpacas are close in their genetic relationship.  Although the genetics have not been completely worked out, it appears that there may be one gene (or perhaps a few) that governs fleece type in alpacas.  It does seem clear to many breeders that there are a few suris, like Bruxo and most of his Accoyo peers, which always throw suri offspring.  These are called “homozygous” for the suri gene.

Most suris are “heterozygous” for the suri gene, meaning they can throw a huacaya when bred to another heterozygous suri or to a huacaya.  Colored suris have a higher probability of being heterozygous.  Bruxo offspring such as Macgyver, Helios and Captain Morgan are examples of homozygous colored suris, because they have more than 50 suri offspring with no huacayas.

After 9 years breeding suris and over 140 crias born on our farm, we've never had a huacaya born on our farm.  Bruxo taught us most of what we know about how to breed for the suri fleece type.  When providing breeding services for our clients who purchase female alpacas, we offer a live suri birth guarantee.  This means we guarantee that our studs will throw a suri offspring that will live at least 30 days. We're certain our stud males are homozygous for the suri gene.

If you'd like to talk about breeding for quality suri fiber, or how to raise alpacas with sustainable agriculture practices, please contact us for more information.