AGISTIMENT: Boarding your alpaca at an established farm.

CRIA: A baby alpaca younger than five months or weighing less than fifty pounds.

BRED FEMALE: A pregnant alpaca.

DAM: An alpaca’s mother

FIBER: The fleece of an alpaca.

GELDING: a pet male who has been cut.

HERDSIRE or SIRE: An alpaca’s father, or a male alpaca with genetic characteristics desirable for breeding.

HUACAYA: A type of alpaca with fine fiber that gives a wooly appearance.

PET MALE: A male alpaca whose genetic characteristics are not of breeding quality.

SURI: A type of alpaca with tightly wound fiber which appears like pencil locks.

WEANLING: A weaned alpaca, younger than one year.

YEARLING: An alpaca between one and two years old.