It's almost time for our 11th annual Stud Service Auction. For those of you not familiar or not sure how it works, hopefully this will answer your questions.

Breeders are asked to donate a stud service to their top producing sires. The main incentive to donate a stud service is to be able to enter that stud's juvenile and yearling offspring in the 2012 Futurity Show and thus be eligible to win some of the big prize money payouts. Last year's Supreme Champion Huacaya won $2,500 and 37 farms won between $150 and $4710.

All sires donated are listed on the Auction Website.

Bidding is done on-line starting November 1 and ending November 30 at 9PM MST

The bids on a stud must reach $750 in order to acquire the stud service and make the stud's offspring eligible for the Canadian Alpaca Futurity held next April. If a stud does not receive this minimum bid, the owner is given the opportunity to pay the $750 and thus make the offspring eligible.

Proceeds from the auction go into the prize pool for the Futurity. 

Payment will be required at the close of bidding. All further arrangements must be between the buyer and the donor of the service.

These stud services are for the 2012 breeding season and are only available to female alpacas that are resident in Canada.

A new option is Self-Subscription to the 2012 Futurity - Check the website for details. 

To nominate your stud, go to the Stud Auction Page and click on the on-line form. The deadline is October 25.  We already have almost 50 of Canada's top herdsires nominated. Check them out at: www.cnalpaca.com/cnasfsa/
The auction will again be split in 4 groups of herdsires, with each group having a separate closing time, each 15 minutes apart.

We are looking forward to another lively auction, so get all those Stud Nominations in soon.

2012 Canadian National Alpaca Select Sale

The CNASF Select Sale has been very successful in the last 10 years. In that time, 197 alpacas have found new homes and $1,925,750 has changed hands to keep our industry moving forward. Plan to showcase your breeding program at this sale. All CLAA registered alpacas are eligible. We will select a maximum of 20 alpacas for this year's sale.

Sale entry forms are available now on the website.
Entry deadline is November 20.

Remember that all alpacas entered in the Futurity and Sale must be CLAA registered.

John & Val MacLeod
Kevin & Leanne Sept
on behalf of the CNASF Group

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