| 2010 Australian Sheep And Wool Show |
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We took a team of Junior and Intermediate suris only to the Australian Sheep And Wool Show at Bendigo. We were pleased to win the Championship for both male and female in both of these age sections. There was a really top class line up of suris. Despite the freezing cold weather, we really enjoyed the show. A three day show provides plenty of time to catch up with other breeders and "talk alpaca".
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| Champion Junior Suri Female, Surilana Pixilate |
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| Champion Junior Suri Male: Surilana Octane. |
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| Champion Intermediate Suri Female: Surilana Melbourne.
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Surilana Melbourne was also the Junior Female Suri Champion at the 2009 National Show. She will be leaving for the UK in August.
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| Melbourne's stunning fleece |
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| Intermediate Suri Male Champion, Surilana Pythagoras
(Pythagoras is a son of Surilana Piccolo and is now offered for sale) |
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| Reserve Champion Intermediate Suri Male: Surilana Matrix |
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| Twins born at Surilana |
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| May 10 |
After 13 years breeding alpacas and many hundreds of births, we had never had a set of live twins. All that changed on Sunday 9th May, when we were watching a female who seemed to have been in labour for a long time. Ian and a friend went to investigate and Ian called me on the 2 way with "Its either twins or a two headed alpaca!"
One cria had to be pushed back inside slightly so that the other could be born and then he was delivered easily. The two male cria were full term and one is just over 3kg and the other just over 4kg. The 4kg cria is walking and drinking off mum, but the smaller cria is weaker and being tube fed. He will need some extra TLC for a while. Thankfully the dam is being very calm and attentive to both of them.
After witnessing hundreds of births, it seems really strange to see these twins. It is extremely rare for twin alpacas to be carried full term and to be born alive. We are very pleased that we have been able to experience this.
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| SURILANA - DOUBLE SUPREMES AT THE 2010 SYDNEY ROYAL SHOW |
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| Apr 10 |
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| Ian and Angela after the judging |
The long haul to the Sydney Royal was well worth the effort. We were extremely pleased with our results, including SUPREME CHAMPION SURI and SUPREME CHAMPION SURI FLEECE. Surilana also owned 5 out of the six suris in the final Supreme line up. Surilana was also awarded THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SURI BREEDER award.
Thankyou to Debbi Patti (Esterlina Alpacas), Vice Lamond (Jimdourie Alpacas) and Jenny Errey (Errydge Alpacas) who helped us with our show team.
Congratulations to Paul Haslin and his team for putting together an excellent show. The Sydney Royal is a wonderful show, which apart from the judging, also includes a fantastic fashion parade. There is also an information session involving the children of exhibitors dressing in South American costumes and displaying alpacas, guanacos and lamas. The large crowds loved hearing about the different breeds of camelids and viewing the spectacle. There is also a kiddie's corner with children's activities, a beautiful fleece display and spinning demonstrations. Crowds entering the huge pavillion have a wonderful "alpaca experience".
Most exhibitors stay in the pavillion (see the accomodation "boxes" in the above photo), so there is a terrific social experience for everyone which culminated on the Sunday night with partying and dancing in the show ring. For those who didn't get to Sydney this year - make sure that you don't miss out next year!!
- Surilana were awarded the following Championships:
- Champion Suri Fleece 18 - 30 mths and SUPREME SURI FLEECE: Surilana Bellita ET
- Reserve Champion Suri Fleece 18- 30 mths: Surilana Belle Of The Ball ET
- Champion Junior Suri Female
- Reserve Champion Junior Suri Female
- Champion Junior Suri Male
- Reserve Champion Junior Suri Male
- Champion Intermediate Suri Female
- Reserve Champion Intermediate Suri Female
- Champion Intermediate Suri Male
- Champion Adult Suri Female
- Reserve Champion Adult Suri Female
- SUPREME SURI CHAMPION
- MOST SUCCESSFUL SURI BREEDER
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| Surilana Magnolia |
Sydney Royal 2010 Champion Junior Suri Female: Surilana Magnolia
Sire: Surilana Piccolo
Dam: Surilana Magdalana ET
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| Surilana Floriade |
Sydney Royal 2010 Reserve Champion Junior Suri Female, Surilana Floriade
Sire: Surilana Piccolo
Dam: Surilana Donella Florez
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| Surilana Janus |
Sydney Royal 2010 Champion Junior Suri Male, Surilana Janus
Sire: Surilana Piccolo
Dam: Jolimont Jani
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| Surilana Matrix |
Sydney Royal 2010 Reserve Champion Junior Suri Male, Surilana Matrix
Sire: Surilana Piccolo
Dam: Surilana Macusani Mietta
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| Surilana Mabelline |
Sydney Royal 2010 Intermediate Female Champion: Surilana Mabelline ET
Sire: Surilana Bartok
Dam: Surilana Macusani Ma Belle
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| Surilana Melbourne |
2010 Sydney Royal Reserve Champion Intermediate Suri Female, Surilana Melbourne.
Sire: Pinjarra El Nino
Dam: Tahara Melba
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| Surilana Munchie |
2010 Sydney Royal Intermediate Suri Male Champion, Surilana Munchie
Sire: Pinjarra El Nino
Dam: Pinjarra Mucha
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| Surilana Heather |
2010 Champion Adult Suri Female and SUPREME SURI CHAMPION
Surilana Heather.
Sire: Jolimont Carlos 2
Dam: Jingana Hesta
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| Surilana Heather's fleece |
Heather has extreme density, solidity of lock and excellent nourishment in her fleece.
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| Surilana Panama |
Sydney Royal 2010 Reserve Champion Adult Suri Female, Surilana Panama.
Sire: Jolimont Carlos 2
Dam: Surilana Pandora ET
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| Fleece judge, Lynne Dickson with Angela and the Supreme Suri Fleece *photo courtesy of The Land Newspaper |
2010 Sydney Royal Supreme Champion Suri Fleece, Surilana Bellita ET.
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| The Supreme Suri Line up at the 2010 Sydney Royal Show |
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| SURILANA PERFORMS WELL AT THE 2009 NATIONAL SHOW |
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| Oct 09 |
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| Ian and Angela with some of their awards from the 2009 National Show |
Ian and Angela, along with a float full of suris embarked on the 11 hour drive to Adelaide to exhibit at the 2009 National Show. It was certainly worth the effort. Surilana came away with 4 Championship awards and 4 Reserve Championships. They were very proud that four of the eight suris in the Supreme line up belonged to Surilana. A full list of of their show results can be found in the "show" section of the web page.
Ian and Angela enjoyed the show and really appreciated the help of their friends Mark and Maree Hornery and Paul and Fran Haslin and their French work experience student, Claire.
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| Part of the Surilana Show team |
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| National Junior Suri Female Champion - Surilana Melbourne
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Surilana Melbourne was awarded National Junior Female Suri Champion. Melbourne is sired by Pinjarra El Nino. It was particuarly pleasing and rare to see a fawn suri win such a prestigious award.
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| National Junior Suri Male Champion - Surilana Turning Point |
Surilana Turning Point was awarded National Junior Male Suri Champion. He is sired by Pinjarra El Nino and his dam was a female selected in Peru. Another El Nino progeny, (Surilana Viking) was also awarded 3rd in the Jnr White Male Suri class.
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| National Reserve Suri Female Champion - Surilana Panama |
Surilana Panama was awarded National Reserve Intermediate Female Suri Champion. She is a beautiful suri female, who was also awarded Intermediate Female Suri Champion at the 2009 Melbourne Royal.
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| National Adult Suri Male Champion - Surilana Illuminate ET |
Surilana Illuminate ET was awarded National Adult Male Suri Champion. Last year at the 2008 National Show he was awarded Junior Male Champion - so he has been a very consistant performer at National level. He also won Supreme Suri Champion 2 weeks earlier at the 2009 Melbourne Royal Show. The judges commented that he "had no guard hair anywhere on his body". They were also very impressed with his uniformity, density and lustre.
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| National Reserve Suri Male Champion - Surilana Pavillion ET
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Surilana Pavillion ET was awarded National Adult Male Suri Champion. Pavillion ET is a very impressive male with both parents being Peruvian dark fawn suris. Congratulations to Waiheke Alpacas in New Zealand for their purchase of Pavillion ET.
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Pavillion's stunning fleece, with excellent grease and lustre.
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| National Adult Suri Female Champion - Surilana Capriole
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Surilana Capriole was awarded National Adult Suri Female Champion. Capriole is sired by Jolimont Kentor and her dam is also a dark fawn suri. She was also awarded 2008 National Reserve Junior Suri Female Champion. Congratulations to Houghton Hall UK for their purchase of Capriole.
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Capriole's amazing fleece.
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| National Reserve Adult Female Champion - Surilana Polaris |
Surilana Polaris was awarded National Reserve Adult Suri Female Champion. She is a stunning suri female sired by Surilana Omar.
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| National Reserve Champion Senior Suri Male |
Surilana Donaldo was awarded National Reserve Senior Suri Male Champion. Doanldo is sired by Surilana Odin. Donaldo is co-owned with Shangrilah Alpacas.
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| Surilana Illuminate ET wins Supreme Suri Champion at the 2009 Melbourne Royal Show. |
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| Surilana Illuminte ET, Supreme Suri Champion at the 2009 Melbourne Royal Show. Illuminate ET is an entry in the 2009 National Auction. |
We were extremely pleased with Surilana Illuminate ET winning Supreme Champion Suri at the 2009 Melbourne Royal Show. Illuminate ET is our entry in this year's National Auction. Illuminate ET has now won 2 Supremes in the past couple of months. He has been a "stand out" since being a cria. The judges were very impressed with his amazing independance of lock, beautiful lustre and density. Illuminate ET is the result of exceptional genetics. His sire is the well known Accoyo male, Surilana Zosimo and his dam, Jolimont Ilka is a Peruvian female we selected for our embryo transfer program, because of her superior qualities.
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| The Supreme Suri line up at The Melbourne Royal |
We enjoyed our few days at the Melbourne Royal and are very proud of our results. A full record of our results are included in the "show result" section on this web site.
Surilana was awarded 4 Championship ribbons and 3 Reserve Championship ribbons.
We were also awarded first place in the Suri Sires Progeny class for our stud male, Pinjarra El Nino. Ultimately, Surilana was awarded the Most Successful Suri Exhibitor award.
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| The Junior Male Suri class at the Melbourne Royal. Left to Right: Angela Preuss, Carmel Byrne, Claire Bertin and Ian Preuss. |
It can sometimes become very hectic organising animals to get into the show ring and we couldn't do this without some extra help.
We would like to thank Claire Bertin and her boyfriend Guillame, as well as Carmel Byrne and Marilyn Fletcher from Tara Hill Alpacas for assisting us greatly.
Claire is an work experience student from France, who is completing a traineeship at Surilana for 3 months. Claire is an agriculture student and she is proving to be a valuable asset at Surilana.
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| The Surilana Show Team at the 2009 Melbourne Royal |
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| Surilana Wins 4 Supreme Suri Champions at the 2009 Colourbration Show |
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| Surilana Windslip, Supreme Grey Suri. Congratulations to Azzura, Indigo, Alouera Estate and Qozqo for purchasing shares in Windslip. |
Surilana entered suris in the fawn, grey, fancy and white suri shows at the 2009 Victorian Colourbration Show and were very happy to win the following awards:
*Supreme Champion Fawn Suri
*Supreme Champion Grey Suri
*Supreme Champion Fancy Suri
*Supreme Champion White Suri
*Judges Commendation White Suri
It was an excellent show with over 440 alpacas entered. It was terrific to see such a large, quality line up of suris exhibited.
See all our results from the Colourbration Show in the "Show Result" section of our web page.
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| Windslip has magnificant lustre |
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| Surilana Illuminate ET is selected for the AAA National Auction |
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| Aug 09 |
We are very proud to have Illuminate Et selected for the 2009 AAA National Auction.
Illuminate ET is a stunning certified suri male, with a high quality Peruvian dam and an Accoyo sire.
Right from day one, this male showed the most amazing independance of lock and "knock out" lustre. He had only just turned six months of age when he was awarded Junior Male Champion at the 2008 National Show.
His locks are like shiny, satin ribbons with a luxurious handle. They uniformly carry from head to toe, with excellent density. He is probably the most independently locked suri which we have bred. His fleece is so lustrous and silky, that it just repels all vegetable matter.
His fleece stats are: Mean: 19.5 micron, SD: 3.7 micron, CV: 18.9% SF: 18.7 micron CF: 99.2%
Illuminate ET is a special suri male with exceptional qualities.
SHOW RESULTS
- Junior Suri Male Champion: 2008 National Show
- Intermediate Male Champion: 2009 Australian Sheep And Wool Show
- Intermediate Male Suri Champion and Supreme Suri Champion: 2009 NSW Southern Region Show
- Adult Male Champion and Supreme Suri Champion: 2009 Royal Melbourne Show
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| Illuminate's fleece carries extreme independance, lustre and density. |
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| IT HAS BEEN A BUSY FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR IN 2009 AT SURILANA |
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| Ian and Angela attended the British Futurity Show |
The first half of the year has been very hectic for Surilana. Angela was very busy with her judging commitments, including judging two Colourbration Shows in New Zealand. She was also honoured to have co judged the Sydney Royal.
Ian and Angela also embarked on a 3 week trip to England and Europe, attending alpaca shows and meeting alpaca breeders. In England they attended the British Futurity Show. This is a very interesting show, where points are given for winning animals and the male who has sired the most winning progeny wins prize money. After this, they attended the Offenbach and Ulm Shows in Germany. Ian and Angela enjoyed meeting alpaca breeders in Germany and England and were made very welcome at their farms.
Even though we sometimes, complain about the weather and the amount of work we put in each day, we are in admiration of German alpaca breeders. For much of the year they battle snow and freezing conditions and have to have animals locked up in sheds.
It was very interesting to see their animals and attend their shows. Even though we could not make much sense of the judge's comments, we really enjoyed the experience. We realise, despite language barriers, that alpaca breeders world wide have much in common!
When we surfaced from all the travelling, we realised that we had not exhibited in an alpaca show in 2009. We finally organised ourselves to attend the Australian Sheep And Wool Show and then the Southern NSW in two successive weekends in July. We were extremely pleased with our results, taking out many Championships at both Shows and the Supreme Champion at The NSW show. In NSW, we had five out of the six suris in the Supreme line up - so we were very pleased. See the "Show Results" section for our results.
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| Ian and Angela in England |
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| Judging at the Offenbach Show in Germany |
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| A German alpaca farm we visited |
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| Mike Safley judging at the Ulm Show in Germany |
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| SURILANA IS THRILLED TO WIN NATIONAL SUPREME SURI CHAMPION FOR THE 3RD SUCCESSIVE YEAR |
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Ian and Angela are extremely proud to receive Surilana's 3rd successive National Supreme Champion award at the 2008 National Show. Surilana entered a team of 21 suris and were thrilled to win 11 broad ribbons and have 5 out of the 8 suris in the Supreme line up. Judges, Jenny Jackson and Natasha Clark awarded the Supreme Champion to Surilana Lady Columbine ET. Lady Columbine is a stunning suri female, with a full Accoyo pedigree. She has absolutely knock out lustre and an amazing dense fleece. It was an incredible and exciting few days at the National Show.
Ian and Angela are very proud of the fact, that the last 5 years of National Supreme Suris have all been sired by a Surilana Accoyo male. T-Pito was the only Surilana Accoyo male yet to accomplish this - but now he has!!
Ian and Angela would like to sincerely thank Paul Haslin and his team for the enormous amount of work involved in organising this event. They would also like to thank Mark and Maree Hornery from Macusani Alpacas NSW and Sheryl and Lindsay Riddle from Sherlin Alpacas in New Zealand for their help in organising and exhibiting the Surilana show team.
Surilana's broad ribbons included (detailed show results are in the show result section of the web page):
- Champion Jnr Suri Female: Surilana Bellita ET
- Reserve Champion Jnr Suri Female: Surilana Capriole
- Champion Jnr Suri Male: Surilana Surilana Illuminate ET
- Champion Intermediate Suri Female AND SUPREME SURI CHAMPION: Surilana Lady Columbine ET
- Reserve Champion Intermediate Suri Female: Pinjarra Moon Shine
- Champion Intermediate Suri Male: Surilana Mister Macusani ET
- Reserve Champion Intermediate Suri Male: Pinjarra Nile River ET
- Reserve Champion Adult Suri Female: Surilana Missimo ET
- Champion Adult Suri Male: Pinjarra Trickster ET
- Reserve Champion Adult Suri Male: Pinjarra Quachano
- Suri Sires Progeny: Surilana Bosisto
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| SURILANA'S PARADE OF CHAMPIONS FROM THE 2008 NATIONAL SHOW |
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| Surilana Bellita ET: 2008 National Junior Female Suri Champion |
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| Surilana Capriole: 2008 National Reserve Junior Female Suri Champion |
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| Capriole's beautiful fleece |
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| Surilana Illuminate ET: 2008 National Junior Male Suri Champion |
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| Surilana Lady Columbine ET: 2008 National Intermediate Female Suri Champion and Supreme Suri Champion |
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| Surilana Columbine ET's dazzling lustre |
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| Pinjarra Moon Shine: 2008 National Reserve Intermediate Female Suri Champion. Congratulations to Houghton Hall Alpacas UK on their purchase of Moon Shine. |
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| Surilana Mister Macusani ET: 2008 National Intermediate Male Suri Champion. Mister Macusani has now been sold to NSW. |
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| Pinjarra Nile River ET: 2008 National Reserve Intermediate Male Suri Champion. Nile River ET is available for sale. |
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| Nile River's beautiful fleece |
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| Surilana Missimo ET (now owned by Houghton Hall Alpacas UK: 2008 National Reserve Adult Female Suri Champion |
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| Pinjarra Trickster ET: 2008 National Adult Male Suri Champion |
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| Pinjarra Quachano: 2008 National Adult Male Suri Champion. Congratulations to Houghton Hall Alpacas UK for their purchase of Quachano |
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| Surilana Bosisto: Winner of the 2008 National Suri Sires Progeny |
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| SURILANA'S TWO SURI FEMALES SOLD TO THE UK AT THE 2008 NATIONAL AUCTION. |
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| Pinjarra Moon Shine |
Surilana was proud to have two suri females selected for the 2008 National Auction. Pinjarra Moonshine was Surilana's entry into the auction. Prestige was Surilana's entry as a Gold Sponsor at the 2008 National Auction. Part of the proceeds from the sale of Prestige have gone to the Australian Alpaca association.
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| Moon Shine has outstanding lustre |
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| Surilana Prestige |
SURILANA PRESTIGE
Prestige was Surilana's entry as Gold Sponsor at the 2008 National Show.
Congratulations to Houghton Hall Alpacas UK for the purchase of Prestige.
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| Prestige has stunning lustre and fineness |
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| SURILANA WAS AWARDED THE "MOST SUCCESSFUL SURI EXHIBITOR" AT THE 2008 SYDNEY ROYAL SHOW |
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| Ian, with Surilana Lady Columbine ET
Chanpion Junior Female Suri |
Ian and Angela were very proud the recieve the Most Sucessful Suri Exhibitor award at the 2008 Syney Royal Show.
There were over 100 suris entered in an impressive line up. Renowned Canadian judge, Jill MacLeod, commented that our Australian suris were the best suris that she had ever judged. This was wonderful for Australian suri breeders to hear, especially as Jill has judged all over the world.
We were very proud to recieve the awards below. (see the full results in the show results section)
- CLASS AWARDS
- 1st: Junior White Suri Female class
- 1st: Junior Fawn Suri Female class
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd: Int White Suri Female class
- 3rd and 4th: Int White Suri Male class
- 1st: Adult Fawn Suri Male class
- 1st: Adult White Suri Female class
- CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS
- Champion Junior Suri Female
- Reserve Champion Junior Suri Female
- Champion Intermediate Suri Female
- Champion Adult Suri Female
- Reserve Champion Adult Suri Male
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| SURILANA ARE EXTREMELY PLEASED WITH THEIR RESULTS AT THE 2007 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SHOW |
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| Ian and Angela after the suri judging |
The Australian National Show was held on 20th - 22nd October in the Weekly Times Pavillion at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds. There were a record 668 entries, which included 123 suri entries from all over Australia. Ian and Angela were extremely happy to receive the awards listed below. A full record of Surilana's results can be found in the "show results" section.
The suri judging culminated with Surilana being awarded National Supreme Suri Champion, with their junior male, Surilana Mr B ET. Surilana has now been awarded this prestigious award 3 times in the past 4 years.
- SURILANA'S CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS AT THE 2007 NATIONAL SHOW ARE:
- Junior Female Suri Champion
- Junior Male Suri Champion
- Reserve Intermediate Female Suri Champion
- Intermediate Male Suri Champion
- Senior Male Suri Champion
- Reserve Senior Male Suri Champion
- {National Supreme Suri Champion}
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| 2007 Australian National Supreme Suri Champion, Surilana Mister B ET |
Mister B. ET is a young male from Surilana's embryo transfer programme. He has full Accoyo genetics. His sire is Surilana Bosisto. Mister B's dam is Surilana Macusani Ma Belle, who is also the dam of the 2006 National Champion, Surilana Piccolo and the 2007 Melbourne Royal Supreme Champion Surilana Quo Vadis ET. The judge, Jude Anderson was very impressed with his super soft handle, his terrific lustre and density.
Congratulations to Surico Alpacas in New Zealand for their purchase of Mister B. We hope that he sires many outstanding suris for Surico in the future.
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| Ian with Mister B. |
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| SURILANA IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE NEWLY FORMED AUST SURI ALLIANCE |
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| Find out more about suris at the Australian Suri Alliance web site at www.suris.com.au |
The Australian Suri Alliance was formed in 2007 when four suri breeders, based in New South Wales (Elysion, Birrong and Pacofino) and Victoria (Surilana), decided to work together to raise the profile of this magnificent animal.
Together we will be involved in the promotion of suris and educating about suris, especially to people who have not yet joined the Alpaca Industry. More information about the Australian Suri Alliance, as well as interesting articles about suris can be found on their web site at www. suris. com. au
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| SRS SURI INFORMATION DAY AT SURILANA |
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| At the SRS day, suri breeders looked through many suris of all colours |
Surilana was proud to host the first SRS (Soft Rolling Skin) day devoted to suris. About 20 suri breeders attended this day in May. The day included education by Dr Jim Watts and a lot of talking about and looking at suris. It was a very informative and enjoyable day.
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| ANGELA AND JUDGING |
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| Aug 07 |
Angela is a AAA judge. So far she has judged in Qld, WA, Victoria, NSW and New Zealand. She is enjoying the experiene of seeing a large range of alpacas and meeting many alpaca breeders.
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| EMBRYO TRANSFER |
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| Aug 07 |
Surilana has been involved in the relatively new procedure of embryo transfer in the last couple of years. Using natural breeding methods, each female has a maximum of one cria, (baby alpaca) per year. However, with embryo transfer, embryos can be extracted from selected females and implanted into recipient females, so that the highest quality females may have several cria in one yea
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