The girls are cautiously making their way outside via the newly opened path through yesterday’s snowfall. At least the sun is trying to come out and the temps are fairly mild. It sure doesn’t feel like the first day of spring, but that’s not unusual here in northern Vermont. By … Read More
This time of year usually find us beginning to halter train last year’s crias, especially those we plan to show in the spring. Only one of the crias we are currently training will be shown in the upcoming season – Snowshoe Ginger. This 9 month old fawn female is a … Read More
No sooner are the holidays over and, instead of enjoying the relative quiet of winter on the farm, we are already faced with making decisions about and getting registered for spring alpaca shows. We have to decide which alpacas we will be taking to which shows so we reserve the … Read More
The fall show season is behind us and it was a very one successful one for Snowshoe Farm! We showed four alpacas at two shows this fall. Our white herdsire, Snowshoe Aristides won a blue ribbon and Reserve Champion at the Empire Alpaca Trifecta and he won a blue ribbon … Read More
Last weekend Snowshoe Farm attended the Empire Alpaca Trifecta in Syracuse, NY. We took four alpacas and brought home four ribbons and a banner! Snowshoe Aristides, our 4-year old, multi-champion herdsire, won a blue ribbon in his class and Reserve White Male Color Champion. This puts Aristides at 4 Championship … Read More
We’re winding up our Mid-Summer Sale with a very special offer this week. This stunning rose grey female is Esther Rose. She is well known to anyone who has visited our farm as she is very friendly and generally loves attention. She is also quite an eye-catching alpaca with her … Read More
Alberta Clipper – ten year old herdsire with bloodlines from the Jolimont Ranch in Australia – is breeding at Snowshoe Farm! Clipper has been seriously underutilized through the years and we can’t wait to see what he’ll produce mated with some of our finest females. Yesterday we had our first … 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