Original roots – New environment!
What a fantastic way to begin 2026 – With the established, original technology and a completely new, highly professional laboratory partner, LG ANCCE. We are very excited to begin this new era together!
Futuregen is now the home of alpaca DNA testing services for alpaca owners and associations worldwide. As our customer, you will benefit from years of experience, customer-friendly pricing and 100 % dedication to supporting the alpaca community from a genuine breeders’ perspective. You will be looked after by the only accredited and licensed service providers to the original colour genotype testing technology developed by Dr. Kylie Munyard at Curtin University.
All testing is now performed at the LG ANCCE laboratory in Spain, ensuring excellent service quality and fast turnarounds.
We are looking forward to being at your service!
Our DNA Testing Services and Kits
Interested in discovering what is hidden in the DNA of your alpacas? Alpaca Colour Genotype testing is a powerful tool for the goal-oriented breeder, helping you make more informed breeding decisions while saving both time and money throughout the lifetime of your alpaca.
Fully parentage testing your alpacas with our Alpaca STR Parentage Test ensures your breeding program is built on a solid and reliable foundation. Each tested alpaca receives an official certificate, signed by the testing laboratory, confirming that the animal has been fully verified against its registered parents.
This verified genetic foundation adds significant and lasting value to your breeding program and convinces even the most discerning customers.
After selecting your testing service, please choose your preferred sampling kits. They are easy for owners to use and submit, helping to keep both sampling time and costs to a minimum.
Click the images below to find detailed information about each available option. Clear, step-by-step instructions will be sent to you by email after placing your order.
Thank you for choosing Futuregen!
Alpaca Colour Genotype test
From €39.95Alpaca STR Parentage Test
From €36.95Alpaca Colour Genotype & Alpaca STR Parentage Test – Bundle
From €67.95FTA Blood Card
From €3.40GenoTube Livestock Swab
From €5.50
Interested in a presentation?
Both live and online presentations for groups and associations
Is your group of alpaca enthusiasts or an association interested in running a presentation to learn more about colour genetics?
Book an online or a live presentation by contacting Carita on the right. The language is English, so in case you need translation, please look for someone that can translate.
It is important to schedule your presentation early to ensure the planning and advertising can begun on time. More information will be provided via email. Thank you!
Presentations will be run by the owner of Futuregen, Carita Saarinen.
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Find DNA Colour Tested
Herds
DNA Colour testing has become a routine activity amongst many alpaca breeders globally, as more and more breeders are exploring the value the test report offers to their breeding programme.
Many breeding and selection decisions are encompassing alpaca DNA colour tests as they have proven to increase progeny predictability and improve herd performance.
Knowing where to find herds that are testing is a great importance and our interactive map will help you identify where to look:
Why Colour Test Your Alpacas
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To determine the background colour genetics in your herd and to add value
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Identity mutations or uncertain patterns such as the grey gene
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To make advanced breeding and informed purchase decisions
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Increase progeny predictability in all colours including grey
Testimonials
”We would highly recommend the use of genetic colour testing to any alpaca breeder who is interested in increasing the predictability of colour in their breeding decisions. Finding those EE aa alpacas has been extremely useful as has identifying hidden grey. The latter has helped us avoid breeding decisions which may have resulted in less desirable outcomes such as BEW progeny and thus prevented a wasted year of breeding for that female. A very worthwhile investment.”
Barbara and Paul Hetherington
Beck Brow Alpacas
”This new test has been an instrumental tool in refining our breeding programme. Colour uniformity is a primary objective to us and being able to identify the alpacas with a stronger black genetic background has helped us reduce the number of non-black progeny and reduce risk when we combine it with our embryo transfer programme. This test is definitely worth the money and we plan to continue using it with each generation.”
Tim Hey / Inca Alpaca
”I have found colour testing my herd to be extremely valuable. Knowing the genetic colour of my alpacas allows me to refine breeding decisions in order to both pursue favorable colours and avoid producing colours I desire less.”
Kim Murray / Capital Alpaca
“We at Sandhills Alpacas were interested in colour genetic testing our huacaya alpaca herd when we started to seriously think about breeding appaloosa and harlequin alpacas. By doing this we were hoping to find a common theme and be able to select which male and female alpacas we used for breeding going forward. We were of course intrigued on how we had managed to breed Hotspot from a white female?
We contacted Futuregen who were so helpful from start to finish and we started our journey on learning about colour genetics. From our results we were excited to find Hotspots dam had a hidden black gene and he had inherited specific alleles from his parents, and he was the darkest result we could have achieved. We now understand that he will always give us one black gene to the cria and to help us get a contrasting pattern become visible on his cria we can select females with two active MC1R:s to make sure the cria will have at least one active MC1R. We are expecting five Hotspot crias this summer and very much look forward to seeing what he can produce for us.
We would hope as many appaloosa breeders as possible genetic colour test their herd so we can all learn more about how to breed these beautiful animals.”
Paul & Maggie
Sandhills Alpacas
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