Welcome to NZ Summerhill Alpacas

Our Alpaca Farm is located in North Canterbury in New Zealand. It has spectacular 360 degree views of the countryside. We First became interested in Alpacas after visiting the Canterbury A & P Show in November 2006. We Started with five wether boys, ranging from white through to dark brown & grey.

After enjoying our boys, we then ventured into purchasing our first female, who is a medium fawn.  Whilst visiting friends we discovered an amazing coloured nine month old female on their property.

My Mum fell in love with this “spotty” female, Miss Hokey Pokey. We really didn’t know what she was in terms of colour until we investigated further from overseas alpaca breeders. Dad and I decided to buy the alpaca for my mum’s Christmas present  in 2008.

In 2009 the same dam and sire produced another leopard appaloosa female, which we purchased for mum’s birthday. We named her, Miss Cookies ‘n’ Cream.

Unfortunately the following same dam and sire mating produced a solid white. Guess you never know what colour you are going to get.

In 2010 the same dam & sire again produced another leopard appaloosa female which was purchased for mum’s 2011 christmas present. Her name is Miss Spot On. The dam affectionally know as “Tip Top has since passed away so that line has now finished.

Miss Hokey Pokey & Miss Cookies ‘n’ Cream have both produced Leopard Appaloosa males in December 2011 & January 2012. The Spot Gene has lived on with these Leopard girls being mated to one of our Leopard Appaloosa Stud Males Ambersun Montage.

We have imported from Australia two Leopard Stud Males & also breed our own.
Appaloosa Stud Males:

Ambersun Montage: Sire: ILR PPPERUVIAN AUZENGATE (From USA), Dam: ROYAL CANADIAN CARMELLA

Ambersun Commando: Sire: JOLIMONT WARRIOR, Dam: ROYAL CANADIAN KIATA

NZ Summerhill Mr Choc Chip: Sire: Eringa Park Chameleon. Dam: Lowbank Farm Hope.

We were lucky to have bred two appaloosa male crias from two of our females in 2010 which were mated to an appaloosa male. One of these males NZ Summerhill Mr Choc Chip will go on to be a stud male in our breeding program for the future, that will give us three different lines on the males side.

We have also added to our breeding program lots of females that have spots to see if we can carry on the ‘spotty’ gene, which has been successful this year.

Our Goal is to bring the Leopard Appaloosa & Appaloosa Alpacas to the forefront of the alpaca industry in New Zealand, as they are internationally.