Alpacas, unlike many other livestock, have a fairly wide window for length of gestation. At Snowshoe Farm, we use 335 days from the last breeding to estimate each female’s “due date”. This gives us a heads up to start keeping a close eye out for a birth. The actual length … Read More
Those of you who own livestock will recognize this situation: there’s something not quite right about one of your animals, but you can’t put your finger on it. Or the problem stops just as you’re about to call the vet. It can be expensive to get the vet out to … Read More
Our first cria of the season was born yesterday and we’re off to a good start. Snowshoe Praline gave birth to a light brown female at day 325. That’s a little early and it shows; the cria has slightly floppy ears and her teeth have not erupted, but she weighs … Read More
About 9 years ago we took in three young male alpacas whose owners were divorcing and selling their farm. We eventually sold two – Salsa and Nick – but Blizzard had health issues and we never offered him for sale. Blizzard was overweight, down on his pasterns and had coarse … Read More
Here’s the official show photo for our two male – FULL BROTHERS – Snowshoe Aristides and Snowshoe Astraios. The pair won the White Male Color Champion and Reserve Champion at the Northeast Alpaca Expo last weekend! Aristides’ first crias were born in 2011 and we expect to see several of … Read More
Results are in from the Northeast Alpaca Expo! We are so proud of our two males – full brothers – Snowshoe Aristides and Snowshoe Astraios. They won White Male Color Champion and White Male Reserve Color Champion.
Shearing alpacas keeps Ron very busy during the spring and makes it difficult for us to participate in many alpaca shows. Tomorrow we will be heading to Syracuse for the Northeast Alpaca Expo, our last show of the spring season. Ron will be taking two of our males, Snowshoe Aristides … Read More
We’ve been shearing our herd of alpacas all week here at Snowshoe Farm. Though we’ve had quite a bit of unseasonably warm weather this spring, this week it feels like winter is back. We now have 51 naked and shivering alpacas in the barns. Oh well…we worry more about the … Read More
This is our show string for the Northeast Alpaca Expo. Fortunately, we have a couple weeks for them to clean up. These alpacas are WHITE! Looks like they both stayed out in the rain last night…
We’re so proud of Snowshoe Aristides – Reserve White Male Color Champion, North American Alpaca Show 2012! His show photo arrived today and I can’t help wanting to share… Aristides is available for breeding and we are keeping his stud fee at a low $2000 for 2012!