As a 13 year old child Don Julio Barreda helped his mother Dona Victona Aragon Barreda with her own herd of alpacas in the High Andes of Peru.  During this young time he witnessed the art of breeding and fiber production first hand from the "Camayocc", or alpaca professionals that lived around him.

 

Don Julio carved a name for himself spanning some 50 years with his own elite herd of superior alpacas known the world over.  Don Julio's herd practice was strange to those around him in the high Altiplano that climbs almost 17,000 feet to his ranch he calls Estancia ACCOYO, meaning "sandy ground" near the town of Macusani in Peru.

 

Don Julio was the first of the "Camayocc" to introduce fencing.  To others, creating barriers for the alpaca in their vast open land seemed useless and time consuming.  Don Julio believed that these fenced areas would support more animals by rotating pasture space.  This concept quickly paid off with a lower mortality rate for crias.  Each year his alpaca's health and fertility levels steadily progressed to higher levels.  In addition to these benefits, Don Julio quickly put an end to the open breeding of Suri and Huacaya.  For the first time he was now creating a truly purebred herd of alpacas.  Today his ACCOYO line is known for superior genetics from years of culling and retaining only the animals with the highest fleece quantity, fineness, elegance and perfect confirmation. If his alpacas did not produce at least six pounds of fleece in their first year, they were sold.  The second year they had to produce 10 pounds in order to remain in the ACCOYO herd.

 

50 years of this consistency has today produced an alpaca that shears 10 pounds of fleece annually with no more than 24 microns.  His entire herd of only 2,500 animals compares to larger operations in Peru of 60,000 had a look no other "Camayocc" could produce or compete with.  Each animal looked remarkably alike in almost every way with the trademark head, large square stature, and thick fine fleece.  During the early days of importation those few breeders that knew of this elite herd with superior genotype were lucky enough to purchase a small amount of quality females and stud males direct from the ACCOYO ranch for their own farms here in the United States.

 

The ACCOYO line is the pinnacle of what all alpaca breeders should strive for today in look, fleece quantity, fineness, and confirmation.  Full ACCOYO dams and herdsires remain a prized commodity for those breeders looking to pass on an elite heritage and quality fleece in their own herds.

 

Our herd is small in numbers, but the quality of alpaca we offer is second to none.  Each of our full ACCOYO females are bred to only full ACCOYO herdsires around the country to maintain this heritage and genotype.  Our crias come from sires of some of the finest examples of Peruvian ACCOYO available today.  100% ACCOYO, 100% QUALITY each and every one.

 

Call us today or stop by our farm in Cedar City, Utah.  Seeing is believing what an ACCOYO will do for your herd genetics.