Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Camelids (Llamas & Alpacas)

Welcome to the OMAFRA Camelids website. Here you will find a wealth of information relevant to Ontario's Camelids industry. The resources listed below include OMAFRA Factsheets and Information Sheets, as well as key links to information on internal and external sites.

• Agricultural Business Management

Production Management

• Canadian Alpaca Guide - Alpaca Canada
• Guard Llamas - Iowa State University
• Llamas and Alpacas - Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension
• Llamapaedia
• Alpacapedia (Care, Welfare, Health & Disease) - British Alpaca Society
• Variation in and Sampling of Alpaca Fleeces, Victoria, Australia
• Camelid Nutrient Unit Calculator
• Research and Publications - Australian Alpaca Association South Australia

Feeding and Nutrition

• Basics of Alpaca Nutrition - Alpaca Research Foundation
• Llama and Alpaca Nutrition - Penn State
• Top 10 tips of Alpaca Nutrition - CRIA Genesis
• Nutritional Assessment, Requirements and Forage Analysis of Alpacas - University of Tennessee
• Basics of Alpaca Nutrition, Vaccination - Royal Veterinary College

Health Managment

• Camelid Care - Camelid Community Standards of Care Working Group
• Camelid Medicine and Surgery - Alpacas and Llamas (Colorado State University Extension)
• Herd Health & Management - LaRue Johnson, Australian Alpaca Association
• Llama and Alpaca Health - Penn State

Producer Groups

• Alpaca Ontario
• Alpaca Canada
• Canadian Llama and Alpaca Association

Research

• Alpaca Research Foundation

Statistics

• Alternative Livestock on Canadian Farms: Census Years 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 - Statistics Canada
• Number of Alternative Livestock and Gamebirds Processed for Meat in Ontario Federal/Provincial Combined Statistics - Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
• Census of Agriculture Data for selected livestock (searchable) - Statistics Canada