As part of our annual Mid-Summer Sale, we promised to offer one alpaca at a deeply reduced price each week. This week we are diversifying a bit and offering a very special male for sale at a reduced price. Snowshoe Astraios is full brother to our 8X Champion/Reserve Champion male, … Read More
As part of our Mid-Summer Sale, we are offering a selection of females at the low price of only $2500 ea, including free breedings. For the most part, these are females who have been replaced by their daughters in our breeding program. Several are simply females whose bloodlines are too … Read More
As part of our Mid-Summer Sale, we will be offering one alpaca each week at a deeply discounted price! We’ll start this off with a bang by offering PHAR Peruvian Fancy Free (sale priced at $7500) for $4500! Fancy is a proven female, a ribbon winner, and dam to our … Read More
It’s truly amazing to watch not only newborn babies that can stand and nurse within an hour – or less – of birth, but also the new mothers whose instincts kick in and tell them just what to do with their new babies! Yesterday’s birth is a good example. We … Read More
It’s time for our 3rd annual Mid-Summer Sale! We’ve reduced prices on most alpacas through the end of August. Special savings available on mature females; these are older experienced breeders whose daughters have taken their places in our breeding program. If you’re interested in a low-cost starter herd, older females … Read More
It was good to see a healthy and active cria on the ground first thing this morning! Yesterday’s baby is still weak and we’re fairly sure he has a health problem. But he’s nursing when we stand him up and the rest of the time he’s comfortably cushed next to … Read More
Esther Rose finally gave birth to a male cria this morning on day 366 of her pregnancy. That’s a very long, but not uncommon, gestation length for an alpaca. Despite the long wait, this little guy weighs in at less than 11 lbs. This is the smallest cria that’s been … Read More
We’ve been waiting for several crias to make an appearance and now that we have cool rainy weather, they’ve decided to show up. Today was a good one – two girls! Cinnamon Girl gave birth to her second female cria sired by our champion male, Snowshoe Aristides. The baby was … Read More
A new (for us) herdsire arrived at Snowshoe Farm today! We’ve acquired half interest in Alberta Clipper, a full Peruvian male from Jolimont bloodlines. We have a number of light females that are closely related to our champion male, Snowshoe Aristides, and we look forward to using Clipper on some … Read More
We’ve been waiting for several crias to be born and Izabella finally gave birth to a beautiful white male this morning. The dam is our Dom Lucilio daughter, Izzy, and the sire is our champion male, Snowshoe Aristides. Both Izzy and Ari have some really nice offspring, so we’re looking … Read More