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Welcome to the
Eastern Alpaca Jamboree 2023!
PA Farm Show Complex
Harrisburg, PA
March 30 - April 2, 2023
Unfortunately, registration for the Halter
Show is closed for all shows. Vendors, Sponsorships,
Walking Fleece, Fiber Arts & Skeins, Performance and the
Photo Contest registration still available. Contact
Scott & Ann Young at
sayoung@hancock.net to
register. If you missed signing up for the halter show
send us a request to be put on our waiting list - we expect
to work off our waiting list as spots open up.
North American Alpaca Show
Click here to register for NAAS
*Stalls, Animal Entries (Halter & Walking Fleece), Sponsorships,
Vendors & Production classes*
Empire Alpaca
Association Spring Show
Click here to register for ESS
*Animal
Entries in Halter & WF ONLY*
PAOBA
Breeders Showcase
Click here to register for PBS
*Animal
Entries in Halter & Performance and Fiber Arts ONLY*
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You want show points? We will do our
best to get them for you. Following on the success of the
AOA Point System and the overwhelming interest in our Iowa show
format Alpaca Show Management Services has brought that format
East with slight modifications and invited PAOBA and EAA to come
along with us for the ride! It is important to note that
when AOA announced all of the Show Point winners in the summer
of 2022, every Huacaya division winner was an exhibitor of our
Iowa shows, every single division! Now is the Eastern
Breeders opportunity to keep up.
What is this format you ask? It is the opportunity to
maximize the value in showing, maximize your dollar, maximize
your time, maximize your ability to gain AOA show points,
maximize the ability to gain valuable evaluations of your
alpacas! We will provide 5 events in 3 days, that is 3
halter shows and 2 WF shows, all in one travel away
from the farm, one hotel stay, one CVI, one group of meals and
one set of miles on your vehicles.
How will we accomplish this, you ask? With
just 2 rings to make it easier on our exhibitors to follow the
pace, we will have 1 show each day, males in one ring and
females in the other. When the 1st show ends the 2nd show
will begin with a new set of judges. After completion of
the 2nd show, the 3rd will commence with new judges yet again.
While the halter rings are going on, the walking fleece shows
will be going on as with any other show. Super easy flow
to follow! However, in order to keep it easy for folks we
need to limit our entries so the judges may complete their
assignments each day. The shows will be limited to 280
alpacas per show. If we can get over 40 suris we can give
suri their own ring and increase our huacaya numbers. In
other words....
don't delay in signing up, these shows will close
early! The Iowa 2022 format sold out in just 2 weeks! |
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North American Alpaca Show Judges
Arturo Pena- male alpacas & walking
fleece
Frauke Berman - female alpacas
Laurel Shouvlin - walking fleece
Stephanie Glyptis - walking fleece
EAA Spring Show
Jude Anderson -
male alpacas
Arturo Pena - female alpacas & walking fleece
Frauke Berman - walking fleece
Stepahine Glyptis - walking fleece
PAOBA
Breeders Showcase
Stephanie
Glyptis - male alpacas & performance classes
Jude Anderson - female alpacas
Laurel Shouvlin - performance classes
How to choose
what to register for?
Mega show formats can be intense. If you choose to do all possible entries the design is
offer the exhibitor the maximum value, the maximum judge’s
evaluation and the maximum show points one can gain in one
weekend. This
can make for a busy weekend for exhibitors that choose to take
advantage of every opportunity. Most Exhibitors will make exactly that choice but a mega
show format is certainly an ala cart format and our exhibitors
have the power to choose how busy their weekend will be.
Let us explain:
The Des Moines, Iowa mega show format is an alpaca show on
steroids. 4
Halter shows in 3 days is very busy for the exhibitors. The Harrisburg mega show format is more like an alpaca
show on a protein shake. By
design, we have slowed the Harrisburg format down a bit while
still offering 5 opportunities for judge evaluations but we have
done it with 3 halter shows in 3 days rather than 4. Even with
that being said an exhibitor will still have the choice on what
events to register for. You could do everything, meaning 3 halter shows, 2
walking fleece shows, as well as performance, fiber arts and
group production classes. If that is going to be too much for your desires, you
can scale it down easily. You could do just the 3 halter shows or just the 2
walking fleece shows, maybe you would like to do 2 halter and 1
walking fleece or maybe you would just like to enter your child
in youth performance. That choice is completely yours when you register for
the shows.
We think we have designed this format to be super exhibitor
friendly with one halter show a day and just 2 rings to keep
track of and with no question the organizing committee feels
doing the 3 halters shows and 2 walking fleece shows is easily
accomplished by all.However,
we want you to walk away from the weekend feeling it was an
amazing weekend for you and your breeding program and if that
means scaling back the options to make it more comfortable for
you, then we want you to know that is 100% okay!
How to register for the 2023 Eastern Alpaca Jamboree
The North American Alpaca Show
is the host show so you have to click on the link above for that
show and at the very least register for stalls and animal
entries on that site. The NAAS site is where you would sign
up for many of the items for the weekend including:
stalls, walking fleece, sponsorships, vendor space, meals and NAAS animal
entries, etc.
The EAA Spring Show
registration site will only accept animal entries into Halter
and WF classes for the EAA Spring Show.
For just $50 more it is crazy to not sign up for both shows but
in case you only want to come to the EAA Spring Show, don't forget to go to
the NAAS registration site for your Stalling & Sponsorships.
The
PAOBA Breeders Showcase registration site will only
accept animal entries into Halter classes for the PAOBA Breeders
Showcase as well as all youth and open performance classes and
Auxiliary Fleece classes. For just $50 more it is crazy to
not sign up for this 3rd show but in case you only want to come
to the PAOBA Breeders Showcase, don't forget to go to the NAAS
registration site for your Stalling and Sponsorships.
How to pay for your registrations
This year
we will be accepting
credit cards as a form of payment. If you would like to pay via
cc, follow this process; complete the registration just as you
always would, when you are finished click the submit button thus
generating a confirmation email that will be sent to both you
and the show superintendent. Upon receiving that email, an invoice including both
show's totals will be sent with a link to a secure payment
site. Take note of your total when clicking on that link. This
will bring you to a page where you fill out your payment
information and click submit. All done, notification from the
credit card company that you have paid will be sent to us and
will be then noted on your account. Please make sure the
amount you are submitting is correct and as always please do so
in a timely manner. Registrations are not final
until payment is received.
Please remember that the weather in early spring can be
unpredictable in North Central PA, so come prepared! Should you
have any questions relating to the show, please don't hesitate
to get in touch with one of the organizing groups, any of us.
We look forward to seeing you in
Harrisburg at the 2023 Eastern Alpaca Jamboree!
Scott Young
Hilltop Alpacas
7825 County Hwy 67
Hancock, NY 13783
(607) 637-5201
hilltop@hancock.net |
Kevin O'Leary
12746 Yacht Club Circle
Fort
Myers, FL 33919
(603) 616-6010
rvalpacas@aol.com |
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