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
Fleece Preparation Workshop
Date Article Listed: 04/09/10
3rd October at Pat Bova's
Just a month away for this important fleece preparation and shearing protocol update. It will be an opportunity to inform subscribers of the news from the WA conference and provide some feedback on the European workshops.
The cost for the day is $88 which includes morning tea, lunch and drinks afterwards.
Click here to to register your attendance for this event. Bookings need to be made by September 28th.
SRS® Conference in Western Australia - thanks Carolyn & Peter
Date Article Listed: 30/08/10
On 21 and 22 August, 51 of us gathered at Carolyn and Peter Richard’s Suncloud Farm in Merredin WA for a series of talks, discussions, and demonstrations centered on the theme of working together to breed, consolidate, and deliver superior alpaca fibre to high end, luxury markets. The write-up in the Weekly Livestock (Western Australian version of the Land newspaper) was titled 'Positive focus on Australian alpaca industry'. The article was very supportive of the work undertaken by SRS®, Breeding Advisers and working parties to push the industry forward into the fibre and textile market.
The facilities at Suncloud are magnificent, and Peter and Carolyn (a powerhouse pair) and their enthusiastic team warmly welcomed us all and ensured that we were warm, dry, instructed, entertained, and very well fed over 2 days; giving us not only a superb 4 course conference dinner in the Igloo on Saturday night, but a 3 course breakfast at 8am the following morning! All our Western Australian subscribers attended – well done - and were joined by subscribers from New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand.
We are indebted to Carolyn and Peter and their team for the superb facilities we enjoyed at Suncloud, and for their great organisational skill in ensuring all who attended had such a wonderful and exciting 2 days. Thank you again.
Sunshine Coast Alpacas on Show
Date Article Listed: 12/07/10
This excellent event, organised by Australian Alpaca Association Ltd., Queensland Region, was held on 3 and 4 July 2010. Approximately 160 alpacas were entered. Judging was expertly done by Nerida Aldred. SRSAI breeding advisor, Jim Watts, presented a workshop on the Sunday which was well attended and received keen interest from alpaca breeders.
Latest Newsletter
Date Article Listed: 24/05/10
In Subscribers Resources- Updates for Subscribers is the latest newsletter. One from Dr Jim Watts detailing the genetic improvement in alpacas in the last 4 years as well as important changes to the fibre standards form 1 July 2010. The second is a report from Julienne Gelber and the Fibre Working Party.
Alpaca workshop on 3 October 2010
Date Article Listed: 22/05/10
SRSAI will hold an alpaca breeding and fleece preparation workshop at Pat Bova's property at Penrose, NSW, on Sunday 3 October 2010. The workshop will be an opportunity to highlight the WA conference proceedings of 19-20 August and to invite subscribers to bring along their top alpacas and fleeces for display and inspection.
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