 About Inca Alpaca
My wife Tracey and I established Inca Alpaca in order to help preserve and improve black alpaca. My passion for black alpaca offers new owners and breeders an opportunity to obtain high quality bloodstock in order to join in the quest.
The last one hundred and fifty years have seen the majority of alpaca breeders in Peru selectively breed towards white and fawn causing the numbers of black alpacas to fall to a very low level and the quality of the fibre remain quite poor and unimproved. Breeding high quality coloured alpacas, in particular black, is a challenge that Tracey and I have taken up and are passionate about. Through the use of careful breeding decisions and strategies developed in Australia we strive to breed black alpaca to the quality now seen in the best white stock.
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Inca Black Magic - 1993 |
My passion for breeding black alpacas began back in Tasmania where our family farm comprised of quite a few black huacayas. After selectivily breeding blacks for some years and winning some prestigious awards in Tasmania our family herd grew in numbers and quality. After graduating from University, I had the pleasure of living for six months on a farm owned by one of Australia's pioneer alpaca breeders Irene and Ken Allston at Inca Alpaca Stud. Irene Allston is a AAA judge and has successfully bred black huacaya and suri for many years, winning major prizes at the Royal Melbourne, Royal Sydney and AAA National Show. Ken Allston was heavily involved in the formation and rationalisation of the Australian Alpaca Association and was awarded a life membership in the late 1990's. My passion for black alpaca also extended to my home life where our family stud farmed a good number of black alpacas and were very successful in the show ring and in their production of elite black alpaca fibre. I would like to thank Irene and Ken Allston for sharing their passion with me and my parents Diane and Robert for their guidance and support through the years. We are very proud to carry on from Irene and Ken with the Inca name in the UK. I hope that we can live up to their high standard.
With a herd of quality alpacas in Tasmania and my parents wanting to travel in retirement we decided to export many of our black alpacas to England to form the core of Inca Alpaca. Further investment has allowed us to import extremely high quality black bloodstock from Australia. These imported females have formed the top end of Inca Alpaca's plantel herd.
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Irene Allston and Tim Hey - Sandfly Tasmania |
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Inca Alpaca takes great pride in offering clients support and advice from 15 years alpaca farming experience in Australia and the UK. We have taken great care in the selection of our bloodstock to ensure strong uniform genetic lines that will impart desirable characteristics to the progeny. This in turn will ensure our long-term success and that of our clients through minimising breeding risks and developing the sale of high priced bloodstock and fibre domestically and into the ever growing European market. Inca Alpaca shares a strong relationship with ABQ Alpacas in Chile and EP Cambridge Alpaca Stud Australia and UK. These alliances will ensure that our clients have the best service and resources possible in this new European farming venture.
 Goals
We have a vision that is shared by many breeders of black alpaca around the world. That vision is one day to breed and maintain a herd of black huacaya and suri that clip a fleece of a weight and quality equal to the best white alpacas now found in the UK. By learning from the research and experience in the merino, angora and alpaca industry in Australia and North America we can improve breeding decisions and explore the link between nutrition, physiology and fibre. Our own experience tells us that our goal is attainable if we apply all that we have learnt and use males that consistently produce uniform progeny that carry the traits we desire and use newly developed breeding strategies that are proven to improve the annual clip in leaps and bounds while keeping a uniform black colour.
 About Tim Hey
I grew up on an Alpaca farm in Tasmania Australia and was involved with many aspects of my family's herd called Van Diemen Alpacas. At the age of 18 I attended the University of Tasmania and graduated three years later with a science degree in Aquaculture. I then worked in a technical and scientific role for the largest Atlantic salmon producer in Australia, while still being heavily involved with my families alpaca herd and the Tasmanian region of the Australian Alpaca Association. A position with Alpacas of Wessex tempted me to England where I enjoyed working with excellent stock. I have had the pleasure of visiting Peru and Australia many times selecting alpacas for import into Europe and Australia. I had the privilege of selecting with a team of professionals including Geoff Scott and Monyka Portecarrero where we selected some of the top alpacas ever to enter Europe and Australia. These alpacas included Wessex Rural Alianza Wiracocha (Supreme Champion Alpaca - Royal Bath and West Show 2005), Cedar House Hugo (Supreme Champion Alpaca - Royal Sydney Easter Show 2006) and Wessex Adonica (Supreme Champion Alpaca - Royal Show, South of England Show, East of England Show 2005).
I am a qualified BAS judge who has judged in the UK and Europe and am heavily involved with the BAS South West Region as well as being involved with the organisation of the Royal Bath and West Show with Di Davies.
I am now married to my beautiful wife Tracey who is originally from the Bournemouth/Ringwood area and we have two gorgeous children, Oliver and Georgia.
 Location
Inca Alpaca is located in the South of England in West Dorset where the land is fertile and well draining and offers an ideal environment for alpacas. With first class facilities Inca Alpaca also offers a very comprehensive agistment and/or herd management programme for those breeders who are building up their herd with the idea of moving to their own property. Inca Alpaca offers interested people and existing breeders an ideal opportunity to visit, view stock and learn more about this exciting and new rural enterprise. We are also conveniently located for the International visitor as we are only 2.5 hours from London’s Heathrow Airport, 1 hour from Bournemouth Airport and 1.5 hours from Bristol and Southampton Airports.
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