• Keep more records than you can possibly use! The cost of keeping more records than you need is small indeed, when compared to the potential cost of a health or breeding error that comes about because you forgot to keep pertinent inforamtion.
  
  
• Stay aware of the needs of each particular animal! the quality of life you provide for your llamas is equally as important as the quality of llamas you put on the ground, and ... there appears to be more than a casual relationship!
  
  
• Keep duplicate records, in more than one place. We are all subject to natural as well as man-made disasters. The loss of your only set of records would cripple you as well as your animals.

Ethical Considerations For Your Animals

• It's not all right to let her ears rot off, even if she's only a breeder! Your 'least' llamas should receive the same care and benefit to the same level from you and your health care professional.
  
  
• Don't have llamas if you don't love llamas! If making money is what pulls your string the hardest, there are easier ways to accomplish this end, and besides that, llamas are about a great deal more than making money.
  
  
• Keep them looking and feeling good! Give them the best you've got and they will do the same for you. Remember that an animal will perform and produce in direct correlation to how it feels, and how it looks has a great deal to do with how it feels!
  
  
• Don't exploit your animals! always keep in the front of your mind that you are the guardians of these animals. This is a weightly responsibility and one you should treat with awe!

Breeding Ethics

• Consider retiring from breeding, any animal who harbors a genetic defect. In the wild, natural selection would take care of this problem but having removed them from the wild, man must take the responsibility for extinguishing such lines.
  
  
• Never miss register an animal, no matter how much more the animal would bring with different parents. This is vital, are only as good as the information they contain, and the ILR contains the future of our industry and we all must protect it. Besides, telling lies reaally isn't good buiness!
  
  
• Always blood type your llamas if there is any possible way more than one potential stud has had access to any given female. Always respond promptly and positively to a request for blood typing verifiation on an animal you have sold.
  
  
• Learn how out-crossing, line breeding, and other options work and be aware of any possible deleterious consequences. Non basic forms of breeding should only be attempted by a person with a great deal of experience and experise.