Alpacas are known worldly for their very fine, luxurious fiber which is three times more hardy and six times more thermal than sheep fiber. Aside from fiber, alpacas are also bred for meat and used in the tourism and recreational industry and animal assisted therapy. Possibility of comprehensive use of these animals caused alpacas' popularity to grow immensely over the past few decades all over the world, also in Poland, where they adapted very well and have been bred since 2004. The objective of the analysis was to study the stocks of the Polish alpaca population, sex structure, also interesting was the inquiry of the distribution of various fleece colour. In Poland the majority of alpaca breedings are concentrated in voivodeships: Silesia, Podlasie and Wielkopolska. According to questionaire surveys carried out in 2012 on 9 farms, alpaca population in Poland numbers 651 and consists of: Suri (12%) and Huacaya (88%) which differ in coat type. In the surveyed population 86% consituted females and 14% males, in Suri population, 65% consituted females and 35% males. Alpaca fleece occurs in 22 natural colours, all shades of beige, brown and grey. Distribution of coat colour in the surveyed population, according to the method-oligically amended criterium was established as follows: white 58%, fair brown 12%, dark brown 9%, cream-coloured 6% and grey 6%, black 5%, multicoloured 4%. In the surveyed population of Huacaya alpacas the majority consituted white-couloured animals (63%), fair brown-coloured - 11%, dark brown-coloured - 8%, grey and black - 5% each, multicoloured - 3%. The Suri population was dominated by cream-coloured animals, whereas fair brown-coloured and dark brown-coloured cosituted 20% each, white-coloured - 12%, grey, black and mulitcoloured - 9% each. Results obtained can be considered satisfying compared with results obtained in Peru, where the biggest alpaca population is.
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