Abstract:

Skin from Huacaya alpacas was used to study the structure of during prosperous and fiber, so as to provide some effective scientific bases to appraise germplasm character. The results showed that the hair follicle structure of alpacas was in the same manner compared with other animals, which was composed of hair bulb, connective tissue sheath, internal root sheath, external root sheath and hair shaft.; diameter of hair follicle during anagen was increased gradually, extreme was hair bulb, and hair papilla formed if hair bulb emboled. The alpaca’s hair fiber squamae arranged porous, and there were many hair follicles, which were severed two clusters by the connective tissue.