A huarizo, also known as a llapaca, is a hybrid cross between a male llama and a female alpaca. Misti is a similar hybrid; it is a cross between a male alpaca and a female llama. The most common hybrid between South American camelids, huarizo tend to be much smaller than llamas, with their fibre being longer. Wikipedia

I wanted and was going to get some Huarizo’s, found out that it’s probably best to just have Llama’s; but we went with a dog for now. We were going to have a couple donkeys, but that fell through. So Dog it is… for now.

The dog is mostly for the main farm, mostly to guard the fowl. Soon I will get llamas to guard baby sheep, pigs and goats. We won’t have a lot of pigs; mostly sheep, goats, and fowl. Kosher animals. Pigs will just eat some of what the others won’t, for a symbiotic relationship.

I understand that alpacas are more susceptible to parasites, where llamas are more parasite resistant; I’m not 100% sure about the alpaca 🦙 llama cross. I’ll have to do more research on that.