Subscribers Benefits
Subscriber Benefits
The advantages of being an SRS® subscriber are numerous.
The SRS® breeding system is unique in its design and application and is only available to subscribers. It targets the things that matter - removing guard hair, increasing fleece weight, lowering fibre diameter, and improving fleece quality and end product quality.
Breeding advisors are there to work with you to make sure that the breeding decisions that are made are correct and likely to deliver the best outcomes.
Our laboratory operates to service the alpaca breeding programs of subscribers only. It provides the key measurements of primary fibre diameter, fibre density and fibre length to allow accurate selection decisions to be made.
Our brand, SRS®, is known internationally in the animal breeding and textile worlds. It is a symbol for fibre excellence. Subscribers are entitled, within the conditions authorised by Dr. Jim Watts, to use the SRS® brand to describe the products and services of their alpaca businesses.
We certify alpacas, both males and females, as recommended breeders for our subscribers. Those animals which attain our testing standards can be advertised and promoted for sale on our SRS® Alpacas International website and elsewhere.
Subscribers have other website privileges such as password access to the Subscribers Only section. This section documents the science, practice and genetic improvement of SRS® bred alpacas. It also provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, breeder profiles and contact information, and the progress of SRSAI worldwide. Subscribers are able to link their website to the SRS® Alpacas International website.
Subscribers receive regular newsletters and updates and have preferential access to SRS® Conferences, seminars and workshops.
We welcome new subscribers.
An application form is available on this website.
LATEST NEWS UPDATES
Merry Christmas and a happy 2012
Date Article Listed: 24/12/11
As the year draws to a close we would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and successful 2012. Although there are plenty of challenges ahead the baling weekend indicated that really positive gains are been made in the fleece area.
Thank you to everyone who attended workshops, assisted with displays, helped with baling and who contributed to the success of the year. May this time be a time for family and friends and a time to relax. Have a safe and happy break.
Fleece Baling Weekend
Date Article Listed: 24/11/11
Over the last weekend 19th & 20th of November a number of us met at Frank and Julienne Gelber's property at Orange to class and bale fleeces for the Primaries wool auction in December. Although it took a long time for those present it was an excellent learning experience and one all subscribers should try and be part of in the future. Some of the fleeces were very well prepared while others required further skirting. Thanks to those subscribers who contributed to the collection. In total over 700kgs of fleeces was classed and a number of bales of 110kgs were pressed and branded ready for sale. Some are still waiting to have enough fleece to make the necessary weight.
Many thanks to the Gelbers for their hospitality, to Jim Watts who classed every fleece and to Stuart Marshall, Richard Brennan, Julienne Gelber and David Mitchell for sorting , skirting, pressing and branding the bales. Go to the photo gallery for some pics of the days. By the time we finished all were exhausted but more informed by the experience. We wait to hear how the fleeces test and how they sell on the open wool market.
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