Meanwhile, despite the lack of high profile auctions a new world record price was recently achieved for a male alpaca. Ernie and Barbara Kellogg of Double ?O? Good Alpacas and Mike and Robin Tierney of Maple Brook Alpacas recently purchased PPPeruvian Royal Fawn a full Accoyo male from Camelids of Delaware for $600,000 (?338,000).
Royal Fawn is the only light fawn Accoyo ever exported from Don Julio Barreda?s herd and was the 1999 and 2000 "Get-of-Sire" winner at the AOBA National Show. Royal Fawn is also the sire of Dom Lucilio, a legendary male known as ?the herd sire of champions? with more than 75 champion and blue ribbon offspring.

2006 is just around the corner and more than one pundit is asking if we will breach the $1million barrier in the New Year

By Adrian Stewart