Snowshoe Farm is packing up and heading to the Empire Alpaca Extravaganza tomorrow. It’s our last alpaca show of the season. We’ll be bringing the same three white males that we showed at the Green Mountain Show last weekend: Snowshoe Astraios who took third, Snowshoe Cosmo, who took second and … Read More
We’re splitting up and heading in two different directions this weekend. Ron will be taking three of our male alpacas to the Green Mountain Fall Spectacular in Essex Jct. Terry will be heading down to Rhinebeck to the NYS Sheep & Wool Festival. If you’re going to be attending either … Read More
We like to shear our crias before the end of summer. This removes the discolored, often tender, tips of their fiber and gives us a better fleece at shearing next spring. This week we sheared the nine crias that have been born so far here at Snowshoe Farm. This is … Read More
Our schedule usually includes a string of alpaca shows each spring and fall. Both are very busy times of year even without the added stress of shows. But now that Ron is so busy shearing, we don’t do all the spring shows that we used to do. Ron took four … Read More
The last few days prior to a show, especially the first show of the season, find us hauling out our “show box” – dirty from a winter in the barn – and scrambling around for all the show essentials: banners, tables, fans, water buckets, halters and leads, tool kit, cable … Read More
OK, so we’re coming up on mid-March here and it still looks like mid-winter. Nevertheless, spring show season starts in 3 weeks with the North American Alpaca Show. We’re showing 5 of our males – one adult, one yearling and three juveniles. Only one of the five is currently lead … Read More
The last couple days have been warm and sunny – way too warm and sunny for February – but you won’t find many people complaining. On the farm, however, there’s a flip side to all this sunshine and warmth: MUD. Every time we get a serious thaw and the snow … Read More
On Tues, Jan 25, Ron will be at the Vermont Farm Show at the Barre Civic Center for the day. He will be representing the Vermont Llama & Alpaca Assoc and will have two weanling alpacas with him. Our weanling group has been getting some lead training this past week … Read More
Just when things start to slow down for us, they start right back up again with registering and planning for spring shows. Our first show of the season is the North American Alpaca Show in Mass. Registration opened yesterday, so we spent some time the other day reevaluating our 2010 … Read More