Resources and Links

Alpaca Associated Materials

This page contains links to documents and links to useful information on alpacas and their keeping.
If you would like to suggest any website or source of information that is not listed, feel free to contact me.

Alpaca Association of New Zealand Central District Newsletters.

Please click the document link to start downloading.

Alpacapedia pages from this website in pdf format (latest versions).

Global Alpaca Breed Societies

Alpaca Research Groups

Alpaca Links and Social Media Groups

Facebook page: Alpaca Association of New Zealand
Facebook page: Alpaca Central AANZ
Facebook page: Te Korito Alpacas Facebook page
Facebook page: Alpacas NZ - discussion and promotion
New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries: Animal welfare section

Alpaca Products and Equipment

Alpaca Halters and Cria Equipment: Halters Plus
Paddock cleaning equipment: Greystone
Alpaca transport: Brennor Transport. Ivor & Brenda Gainsford. 07 332 2336 or 021 275 3720

Carding and Spinning

Carding: Waione Wool Carding, Palmerston North.
Carding: Kane Carding, Dannevirke.
Carding: Greenacres Fibre Processing, Christchurch.
Carding: Jumbuck Carding, Kaukapakapa.
Spinning Wheels and Accessories: Ashford Wheels & Looms
Spinning Wheels and Accessories: Wheels and Whorls

Fleece

List of New Zealand Shearers - xlsx format.
List of New Zealand Shearers.

Fleece Buyers

Buyer: Pacific Alpacas. Nationwide.
Buyer: Wadsworth Heap Ltd. Nationwide.

Fleece Testing

New Zealand Wool Testing Authority. Nationwide.
SGS. Nationwide.

Reference Documents

New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries - Code of Welfare for Llamas and Alpacas
Toxic Plants: Poisonous Plants in New Zealand, NZ Ministry of Health
Toxic Plants: Poisonous Plants & Toxic Compounds, Totally Vets
Drugs to Avoid or Use with Caution in South American Camelids: Veterinary Manual, MSD Manual

Quick Page Links

What's New?

Farm Tours

Farm tours are available for couples, families, and smaller groups to meet, feed, interact with, and walk with our alpacas.
For full details and to book your experience of these wonderful animals, please go to our reservation form.

Alpaca Shearers

Shearing is an important time of the year. Not only does it enable your alpacas to remain cool during the summer months but their fleeces become available to the owner.
This new page is an interactive detailed listing of all alpaca shearers operating in New Zealand.

FAQ

During our farm tours, visitors ask many questions about the alpacas, from keeping them, on their health, to their breeding and much between. This page gives a selection of these along with concise answers and many pointers to more detailed information. This page is growing!

Get in touch

e-mail us here
021 813 746
736 Papaiti Road, R.D. 14,
Wanganui, New Zealand.

Directions - Once in Wanganui, drive up Somme Parade and when it becomes Papaiti Road (just past the cemetery), travel a further 7.4km alongside the river. We are the first house on the right with a large white letterbox and sign for the farm. On Google Maps we are shown as 'Te Korito Alpacas'.

⇧