Measuring up an award-winning Alpaca ahead of Royal Hobart show

These female alpacas called hembres, and malescalled machos are competing to become the supreme champion of this year's royal hobart show. Some attracting attention for the right reasons like motchy. “Shes a ukaya alpaca a female and she's just not only won her colour class but she's also become champion for her age group.” Others for the wrong reasons like this macho caught paying too much attention to the hembres. After South America, Australia has the most alpacas in the world. “The quality is good here we stand up against people on the mainland and overseas” competing alpacas are inspected from teeth to tale the judge looks for the best breeding characteristics. A task requiring hours of focus and precision “alpaca has got a unique feature in reflecting light, so it reflects light like silk does” Lee Sadler from South Australia has judged alpacas for more than 25 years their fleece says a lot about the animal's life “just like our hair skin and nails shows up when we've been under stress” Tasmanian alpacas winning fans “I think everybody should have alpaca in their lives, and I know I’m biased not saying have on in your backyard” Or just winning the best spot in front of the fan.