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The latest livestock event to move to the NEC is the British Alpaca Futurity, the first major alpaca event of the 2012 season. This will be the first time that alpacas have been seen at the UK’s largest exhibition centre that hosts more than 160 exhibitions every year and welcomes more than 2.5 million visitors.

A celebration of all things alpaca, the British Alpaca Futurity will be staged on Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17, featuring alpaca halter classes with over 300 animals being shown, an international fleece show, trade stands presenting alpaca products, and workshops and seminars on textiles, alpaca health and genetics. There will be a rolling ‘Discover Alpacas’ presentation where members of the public can find out more about alpacas.

The Futurity format is different to all the other alpaca shows in the UK. The majority of the animals shown are the progeny of ‘nominated sires’ and the Futurity Huacaya and Suri Champions are the stud males whose progeny have won most points in the show classes.

A new feature for the Futurity is an Alpaca Fibre Arts Village where fibre artists, whether alpaca breeders or not, take a low cost table for the two days to display and sell their product. The ‘village’ will encourage hand spinners, felt makers, weavers, knitters and crochet makers to come and practise their art in public. There will be a knitting table stocked with yarns, needles and patterns where anyone can come and have a go. Tops, fleeces, yarns and end products will all be for sale.

Alpaca fibre is known for its lovely handle, warmth and lustre and is one of the ‘noble fibres’. Most of the alpaca tops, yarns and end products will have been made in Britain from the fleeces of alpacas bred in this country.

The Futurity is a non profit making show backed and organised by a group of alpaca breeders The Alpaca Stud, EP CambridgeUK, Moonsbrook Alpacas, Classical MileEnd Alpacas, Bozedown Alpacas and Houghton Hall Alpacas.

Members of the public who want to find out more about alpacas are invited to join us at the Futurity where they can see some of the best of British alpacas, meet the breeders and find out what can be done with the fibre.

Entry is just £5 for a family. Tickets are available on this website or from www.theticketfactory.com.