As the name suggests MyAlpacaRecords is a new system designed to help farmers of alpacas maintain accurate records.

Using the new system you can maintain a sales lists of your alpacas, health records, breeding records, photographs and the system is backed up each evening.

The system was designed by Dale Thoeni. he has been raising alpacas since 1997. As a Systems Engineer by trade Dale started to explore developing a software program that would help alpaca farmers keep better records.
As others have done before, he began to create a software package that could be sold to other alpaca enthusiasts. Dale soon realized that an Internet based application would be more effective than mailing out a disk.

Basically, MyAlpacaRecords is a website with a a database driven application. A bit like AlpacaNation. Except Dale is focusing on the record keeping aspect rather than the sales and marketing angle. Having said that he does promise online auctions and to cap it all he says his long term goal is to

"create a national alpaca herd data repository from which we can provide Alpaca producers with statistical data regarding the production of alpacas."

Well isn't that what ARI does? But I am guessing they won't be losing any sleep about MyAlpacaRecords taking over the national registry just yet.

Its hard to see how the system works without actually subscribing as the demo is very basic and there is no free trial period, a big mistake in my book as nearly all applications of this type use a free trial period to build their customer base. The system looks like a serious case of function over form which is what you might expect when its been built by a systems engineer. Bottom line it looks uninteresting but the good news is it will probably work very well. Check out the website and if you sign up let me know how it goes.