Bent Pine Alpaca Farm is an active member of these state and national organizations and associations.

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The Mission of the Pennsylvania Alpaca Owners and Breeders
Association (PAOBA) is to promote the advancement and investment
potential of the North American Alpaca.

This is a national organization that was founded to promote the alpaca industry and to support alpaca breeders. AOBA sponsors a national meeting every June in Colorado.  They also publish a quarterly magazine called Alpacas®.

The Alpaca Registry, Inc. registers all alpacas in the U.S.   Registered alpacas are blood-typed to confirm parentage. This serves to preserve and protect the alpaca herd in the U.S., and it is a comfort to buyers of alpacas to know with certainty what they are buying. The Alpaca Registry also screens and monitors all importations and assures that all imported alpacas meet stringent standards. The information in the Registry's database is available to breeders on request. Visit the Alpaca Registry's web site to learn more about what they do.

MaPaca is a cooperative group of alpaca breeders from the Mid-Atlantic states.  We are a diverse group with herd sizes ranging from 2 to over 200 alpacas.   On our farms you will find some of the most exquisite alpacas in the world in a rainbow of colors.  We have hundreds of huacayas and suris representing some of the most well established bloodlines in the country, with more than four generations of successful, well-documented, reproductive history!  Combine this with the recent addition of exciting new breeding stock imported from Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, and you have a tremendous selection to begin your foundation herd or add that missing element to your existing herd.

Months of preparation are made in advance of each Quechua Benefit trip. Fueled by generous donations from alpaca breeders across the U.S., Quechua Benefit directors work year-round, planning each trip down to the last detail before the all-volunteer team embarks. 

Once in Peru, traveling from one village to the next, team members unload truckloads of equipment, food, and supplies. In less than one hour they turn an empty room into a make-shift dental clinic with two dental stations. Three dentists alternately perform triage, administer anesthetics, and pull teeth, while other members act as dental assistants, help to sterilize instruments, distribute blankets, shoes and tooth brushes, and keep the seemingly endless line of patients moving.