Friday March 16th and Saturday March 17th, 2012
Birmingham NEC, Hall 3, B40 1NT

Alpaca Halter and Fleece Show – Learn about alpacas at the Seminars and Workshops - Alpaca Crafts Competition - Alpaca Trade Stands – Alpaca Clothing Fashion Show - Social with Champagne Reception & Celebration dinner

About the Show
The British Alpaca Futurity is designed to be the showpiece for all British alpaca breeders, large or small. The alpacas shown will normally be the progeny of ‘nominated’ herd sires although alpacas that are not the progeny of these herd sires can be entered on payment of a slightly higher entry fee.

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The Futurity group would like to urge all alpaca breeders to help us to start 2012 with a bang and ensure that the alpaca industry remains buoyant and bucks the recessionary trend

Seminars and Workshops
Book into our seminars and workshops, led by experts in their fields.   Subjects include

• Hand Spinning Workshop
• Lace Knitting Workshop
• Liz Clay on Couture Felting with seminar and workshops
• Latest research on Parasites
• Assessing huacaya and suri alpacas for commercial fleece production
• Current trends in Reproductive technologies and genetic potential
• Successful Birthing – seminar and practical workshop

Visitors and exhibitors welcome

• Alpaca Fibre Artist's Product in Alpaca Fibre Village
• Alpaca trade items
• Alpaca Knitwear
• Spinning wheels
• Weaving frames
• Knitting yarn suppliers

An all day cafe is also available

Fashion Show
The Futurity will once again stage a fashion show that will feature sophisticated British alpaca garments and welcomes collections from designers in Europe and the rest of the world. It will be staged during the champagne reception on the Saturday evening followed by the celebration dinner, prize draw and the awards ceremony.

   

The Futurity is a non profit making event and will be financed by sponsorship and an on-line auction of stud services from a small number of the top stud males in the UK donated by the originating sponsors and any other breeders who wish to support this important event in the alpaca calendar.

The main sponsors are:

The Alpaca Stud, Bozedown Alpacas, Houghton Hall Alpacas, Moonsbrook Alpacas, EP Cambridge UK Ltd and Classical MileEnd Alpacas.

Fleece Show
This has, for the first time, been opened up to entries from European alpaca breeders.

• No restrictions on lineage or parentage of alpacas whose fleece are entered
• Trophies for the champion suri and huacaya fleeces will be awarded at the celebration dinner and the ribbon winning entries will be on display in the entrance foyer of the venue.