ABOUT US

Sunset Alpaca Stud is owned and managed by Willem and Dita Alblas. They immigrated to Australia from The Netherlands in 1987 and arrived in New Zealand in 1993, where they have owned and ran several businesses since then.

Willem bought their first six alpacas in 2004, after buying a 7ha property with export flowers and passionfruit, and some 4ha of grazing at Katikati in the Bay of Plenty.

At the beginning of 2010 we sold that property and bought a 22ha (55 acre) grazing block in Te Puke. This property is 350m above sea level and therefore ideal for alpaca, with a very low facial eczema risk and enough summer rainfall.

Now Willem and Dita concentrate entirely on breeding alpacas and own a herd of more than 150 alpacas.

We started off with a wide range of colours, but the last few years concentrate on the breeding of top quality black huacaya alpaca. Most of the black alpacas have been imported from Australia with elite Peruvian genetics. Sunset Alpaca Stud is now one of the top black huacaya studs in New Zealand.

Willem and Dita work very closely with the world renowned Australian black Stud, Canchones, with whom they co-own some full Peruvian black stud males. By now, Sunset Alpaca Stud have most of Canchones's top black genetics in their herd and are proud to show you their outstanding quality progeny.

LINKS

Sunset Alpaca Stud  1764 Te Matai Road RD8 Te Puke 3188 New Zealand   Ph +64 7 573 4480   info@sunsetalpacas.co.nz