Angoras all have long, curly, woolly white coats and brown-stained bums. A judge is walking along the line, poking and prodding. It is a leisurely business, but the goats don't seem to mind. Alpaca breeders, in the next pavilion, look happy with their choices in life. An alpaca looks like the result of a cross between a llama and an enormous French poodle.
Alpacas look like goats that have been put out to tender and privatised.
They look big, strong and pissed off. Incredibly dumb, apparently, is your average wild parrot. This can be inferred from a product on display in the Farming the Future Pavilion. It's a two-strand electric fence designed to keep avian scavengers off fruit trees and the like. One wire is live, the other earthed.