Capital Alpaca

29/03/2024

A week ago we were at the British Alpaca Society National Show. And what a show we had!! Our little team of 5 did us proud. The highlight of the show being Capital Atlas winning Reserve Champion White Male 🤩

Here's our Full Results:
⭐️ Capital Atlas - Reserve Champion White Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Glory Daze (W)
Dam: Bozedown Starburst II (W)

💙 Capital Malfy - 2nd Light Suri Intermediate Male (1yr) 💙
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

💙 Capital Vogue - 2nd Junior Brown Female 💙
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Beck Brow Sunday Best (B - EE/aa)

💛 Capital Dauphin - 3rd Intermediate Grey Male 💛
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (RG - Ee/aa/Mm)

💜 Capital Yasmine - 6th Junior Grey Female 💜
Sire: Kurrawa Legend's Crusader of B*W (W Cryptic Grey - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Longthorns Ieisha (B - EE/aa)

We would also like to congratulate Lane House Alpacas fir their accomplishments with their two new Capital stud males:

⭐️ Capital Texugo - Reserve Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

❤️ Capital Fennec- First Adult Brown Male ❤️
Sire: Toft Klondike (LF)
Dam: Woodbine Foxy Lady (DF - Ee/aa)

17/02/2024

17/02/2024

🌟🌟🌟🌟 CAPITAL DAUPHIN 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thank you to Capital Alpaca for your kind donation to our stud service auction🙏

Capital Dauphin is an exciting young Rose Grey male who we are really excited about. He is a part of our first crop of cria from Beck Brow Hit For Six. Dauphin's dam, Houghton Beau is our best producing grey female, who consistently gives her cria very fine, dense, and stylish fleeces. Dauphin has had a highly successful show career so far and is continuing to mature in impeccable style. With his impressive pedigree and fabulous fleece traits, Dauphin has a wealth of strong genetics to pass on to his offspring.

Dauphin's fleece is bright, very dense, very fine, and impressively uniform. Judges have remarked on how similar in micron his white and coloured fibres are. His transition line is very low and his fleece stays fine and stylish into his extremities. Though he has not yet been colour tested, his sire has been tested as EE/aa and his dam is Ee/aa (Grey). So, Dauphin's base colour is either EE/aa or Ee/aa and he has clearly inherited the grey gene from his dam.

Conformationally, Dauphin is very much like his father. While he does not have a large frame, he is well-balanced and well-proportioned. He has good capacity through his chest, and good substance of bone. He has an attractive head that is true to type and has very good fleece coverage. Dauphin was a chunky and healthy cria. We expect his offspring will be the same! Though he is not yet two years old, he is showing signs of being an early worker (like his sire).

Please note that he was sheared less than a month old. The staple length and fleece weight is annualised.

For more information or to place a bid please click the link below:

http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

13/02/2024

We are proud to announce that Capital Dauphin has been selected to be a part of this week’s BAS Stud Service Auction, proceeds of which go towards putting on the British Alpaca Society National Show. Click here to see the available auctions and place a bid: http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

13/02/2024

This year was a first for us in that our show season started two months early. It was an interesting experience in that it gave our youngsters the opportunity to attend a smaller, quieter show before the attending the dazzling National Alpaca Show in March. That show was the Northern Show up in Scotland. It was a busy time for us leading up to the show as the weather had been atrocious and I had been away in the USA for a bereavement, so out halter training was going a bit slower than usual. I’m am happy that we made it to the show, even if we had the muddiest juniors there! 😬🫣 I am proud that my “big boys” each earned a sash and every junior placed in the top 4 (apart from one wee boy sucking his bits way up from the cold 🤣). Overall, it was a wonderful weekend away! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thank you to judge Barbara Hetherington and the Northern Alpaca Show organisers for putting on a great show!!

🌟 Capital Texugo - Champion Grey Male 🌟
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

⭐️ Capital Fennec- Reserve Champion Fawn Male ⭐️
Sire: Toft Klondike (LF)
Dam: Woodbine Foxy Lady (DF - Ee/aa)

⭐️ Capital Malfy - Reserve Champion Light Suri Male ⭐️
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

13/02/2024

The last of the autumn short fleece shows that we attended was the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Show 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 While others weren’t so lucky, we were able to make it through the storm in order to attend the show. Because of the storm, the show ended up being smaller than intended, but it was encouraging to see an high quality alpacas filling the show despite the lower number of entries. Well done everyone!! A belated thank you to judge Barbara Hetherington and the Welsh Alpaca Show organisers for putting on a great show!! 🤍❤️💚

🌟 Capital Dauphin - Champion Grey Male 🌟
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (MRG - Ee/aa/Mm)

🌟 Capital Stardust- Champion Grey Female 🌟
Sire: Kurrawa Legend’s Crusader of B*W (W - AUS - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Charnwood Forest Once In A Blue Moon (LSG - Ee/aa/Mm)

🌟 Capital Malfy - Champion Light Suri Male 🌟
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

⭐️ Capital Texugo - Reserve Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

⭐️ Wyvern Jet - Reserve Champion Black Female ⭐️
Sire: Liberty Alpacas Midnight Rider of WVV (B - USA)
Dam: Wyvern Aero (B)

💛 Capital Camber - 3rd Fawn Adult Male 💛
Sire: C-S Alpacas Jack The Lad (MF - Ee/Aa)
Dam: C-S Alpacas Imogen (DB - EE/aa)

13/02/2024

We have once again fallen behind on sharing our show results… Oops! There’s no time like the present to get caught up 😊 First is a flashback to the Yorkshire Show that was held in Mid-October. It was a lovely, relaxed weekend for us with a small show team of 5. We were proud to have all alpacas place within the top 3! A belated thank you to judge Roger Clarke and the Yorkshire Alpaca Group for putting on a great show!!

⭐️ Capital Dauphin - Reserve Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (MRG - Ee/aa/Mm)

⭐️ Capital Stardust- Reserve Champion Grey Female ⭐️
Sire: Kurrawa Legend’s Crusader of B*W (W - AUS - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Charnwood Forest Once In A Blue Moon (LSG - Ee/aa/Mm)

⭐️ Wyvern Jet - Reserve Champion Black Female ⭐️
Sire: Liberty Alpacas Midnight Rider of WVV (B - USA)
Dam: Wyvern Aero (B)

❤️ Capital Malfy - 1st Intermediate Light Suri Male (1yr Fleece) ❤️
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

💛 Capital Texugo - 3rd Place Intermediate Grey Male 💛
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

02/01/2024

Hi Everyone!

We have two big jobs happening on the farm over the next two months which we could use a hand with. Volunteer sessions would last one-hour per task and you are welcome to sign up for one job or to do both if you are interested and have two hours to spare!

1- Halter training our young alpacas. This is teaching them how to walk on a lead (a bit like a horse or a dog) so that they can compete in alpaca shows and are less stressed when being handled later in life.

2- Sorting fleeces in preparation for spinning into yarn. We need extra hands to help pick bits of vegetation out of the fleeces and to get them packed and ready to send off to the mill.

Feel free to get in touch via pm, phone, text or email for further info and to book in a slot. Currently we are only looking for one or two volunteers per day. So while we can take weekend volunteers, weekdays are preferred since there are more days to fill! Volunteers are welcome to book in on an individual basis or as a pair with a friend or family member. For safety reasons, we can only take adults and teens.

Thanks for reading and I hope to speak to you soon! 😊
- Kim

01/01/2024

Happy New Year from Capital Alpaca! 2023 was full of tribulations which kept us busy, but some really great things happened as well. We have had a great holiday break and are ready for what’s to come 🙌 We look forward to a year filled with alpaca love. Roll on 2024! 🥂🎆🥳

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