White Male Color Champions!!
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.
Last alpaca show of the season
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
Paddock condition?
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…
The “Official” Photo
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!
Snowshoe Aristides
Our multi-champion herdsire, Snowshoe Aristides, won a second place ribbon in his class (behind the color champion) and also won RESERVE WHITE MALE COLOR CHAMPION at the North American Alpaca Show today!! This is Ari’s 7th banner, making him a 3X Color Champion and 4X Reserve Champion – yay!! … Read More
First Alpaca Show of the Season
The North American Alpaca Show will be held in Springfield, MA this coming weekend. This show always kicks off the season for us. Getting ready for the first show is a bit of a challenge. Our show supplies have been packed away since fall and it’s time to drag them … Read More
New Herdsire
Taking good fiber pics is not one of my strengths, but I couldn’t resist snapping a shot of this fleece today. The alpacas look pretty ratty during mud season and I had to open up this fleece to remind myself how nicely this guy is coming along. This fleece belongs … Read More
In with the new…
Here at Snowshoe Farm we are looking back at 2011 and counting our blessings. Despite a down economy, we’ve managed to sell quite a few alpacas this year; we had a beautiful crop of crias – mostly female (yes, that’s a good thing); our homegrown herdsire, Snowshoe Aristides, won another … Read More
Heading to Syracuse
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
August “Special Offer”
Time is running out to take advantage of our special offer for the month of August. Buy any female and receive a half price breeding to our White Male Color Champion, Snowshoe Aristides, to use on a female of your choice any time through Dec 2012. That’s on top of … Read More