Well after three long months of hard graft I am delighted to announce that the work of the Affiliate Congress EPD Task Group is now complete and available to anyone who is interested.
My original idea back in February of an e-mail about Alpacas and EPDs soon expanded into a dedicated website www.epdlibrary.org

Our thanks go to Alpacas Owners and Breeders Association (AOBA) member Dr Sara Via who is a statistical geneticist at the University of Maryland and who organized the many articles and wrote the explanatory text.

Thanks also to Gwen Wolff who researched the various EPD experts to create a speaker list, identified many useful EPD resources from other livestock industries and kept me focused.

Please encourage your fellow alpaca enthusiasts to visit the website, read about EPDs, take the EPD survey and if inclined sign up for the EPD Newsletter. The site is very much a work in progress so if you have any comments or suggestions you know where to contact me.

EPDs@mulberryalpacas.com