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.
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
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
Fiber Testing
We received histogram results (fiber test data) for our yearling males. All seven tests came back under 20 microns – with the lowest at 13.8! That’s some fine, fine fiber! We also had Aristides, our 3 year old champion herdsire, tested and his histogram is 18.5/3.8/20.7/0.6! And his fleece weight … Read More
Aristides’ Crias
The first offspring of our White Male Color Champion, Snowshoe Aristides, were born this spring and more are coming along. I’ve posted photos of those crias that are currently on the ground on Ari’s web page here. We’re pleased to be seeing some very nice crias! Contact us to make … Read More