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
We’re been working on herd health this week. Each afternoon, we pick a group of alpacas and check each alpaca’s weight and body condition, trim its toenails and give it a dectomax injection. It’s been good to see some of the alpacas that were skinny during the winter (like moms … Read More
Last two weeks! All alpacas on our sales list are 50% off through the end of July. This is a great opportunity to save big on high quality breeding stock or to pick up nonbreeding alpacas for a fiber or hobby farm. We are offering special low prices on several … Read More
We’ve already had some hot and humid weather this summer and it sounds like there’s more to come this week. If you’re new to owning alpacas, you need to know how to keep them cool during hot weather. Alpacas are native to a dry, high elevation and are not comfortable … 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
Today we delivered 7 alpacas to their new home here in northern Vermont. A cozy new barn awaited them at the family dairy farm which sits near the top of a hill and has a stunning view of the mountains. Since this was a new area for livestock, the paddock … Read More
Our white male, Snowshoe Aristides, had a very successful show season this fall. At the Green Mountain Alpaca Show here in Vermont, Aristides won a blur ribbon in his class and Reserve Color Champion. At the Empire Alpaca Show in Syracuse, Aristides took second in his class and also won … Read More
Looks like tomorrow will be a good day for the start of the Washington County Fiber Tour. Fiber enthusiasts should venture to NY and join our alpaca and fiber friends for this fun event.
This coming weekend is the second of three alpaca show weekends in a row. That means today we’re busy packing so Ron can head out tomorrow morning. This weekend’s show is in Vermont, so travel is easy. We have what we call our “show box” that’s filled with the supplies, marketing materials … Read More
Yesterday, Glinda gave birth to her first cria, a healthy, vigorous rose gray girl! Her sire is our white herdsire, CCNF Synergy, We were hoping this match would produce a gray with more character and density than usual and it looks like it might have done just that. Time will … Read More