ARI Annual Meeting – National Alpaca Conference
ARI Board of Directors
The Alpaca Registry held their Annual Membership Meeting this morning in Cleveland, OH at the 2nd Annual World Alpaca Conference. Here are a few of the highlights:
- ARI urges members to clean up their herds on-line. For example, login and mark your deceased alpacas as deceased. Also, you can mark the appropriate ones as sold without certificate transferred. (when you sell non-breeders but don’t transfer the ARI to new owner)
- ARI will be offering BVD testing from Geneseek. Testing can be done from the same blood card that is used for registration.
- ARI welcomes new Board Members, Monica Kline and Laurel Shouvlin.
- For 90 days this summer (June-August) ARI will have an amnesty period where all registrations will be the lowest price regardless of the age of the animal. This is a chance for everyone to catch up and make sure all their alpacas are registered.
- ARI urges its members to please register their geldings/non-breeders. It only costs $25 and it will significantly help our industry when it comes to accurate statistics and EPDs.
