Why is baby alpaca fleece so darn soft!?

Yes, it really is that soft!Before we can answer this burning question we need to lay down some baby alpaca facts.Baby alpacas, known as cria, originate in the Andes Mountains of South America, typically in Peru. As herbivores, they mostly eat grass, but their diets can also include leaves wood, bark or stems and are classified as a ruminant species. Ruminants are an even-toed ungulate mammalthat chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise of cattle, sheep,antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives such as the alpaca.   The process involves fermenting the plants that it consumes in microbial action in the front part of the digestive system and requires the fermented food (known as cud) to be regurgitated and chewed again. This process which helps to further break down the ingested fibers is known as rumination, which as
Yes, it really is that soft!Before we can answer this burning question we need to lay down some baby alpaca facts.Baby alpacas, known as cria

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