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The Curly At Cavyland when you say 'Curly' in the UK most people think of the alpaca, Texel & merino, i.e. the curly coated longhairs. But the Curly is actually in itself a separate breed recognised in Germany and some other European countries. They are a short coated version of the Lunkarya. To see a really good example visit www.lunkarya.de but here is a record of my progress with this charming breed I should stress from the start that the Curly is a very new breed, newer even than the Swiss, and at the moment I have some fair examples and some....well pretty bad examples, but they are a work in progress, a long term project and they are very cute
I imported some Lunkaryas in 2006 and had seen a Curly in Sweden, I got the 'Curly' bug but didnt think I would be able to get any of the 'genuine article' so I did probably totally the wrong thing and tried to 'make' some. I mated a lunkarya sow to an Otter boar and the results were Klara & Lotta....
I was then very lucky and a good friend let me have a curly boar, not a great curly boar, but he was a genuine Curly, and his name was Tayler
My next stroke of luck was another friend gave me a Curly sow, I called her Shauna, again she isn't a great curly, but she has the genes. She came from Lunkarya breeding
and they had a sow I call Dragonfly's Gypsy Moth
They had 3 babies, again these babies are promising. I call them Dragonfly's Bumble bee, Dragonfly's Honey bee & Dragonfly's Ant
they had one baby, I call her Dragonfly's Butterfly
I then got a gift from the good friend that gave me Tayler, more Curlys, meet.......
to be continued......
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