This is a new weekly feature with a tidbit of wisdom picked up along the way after ten plus years breeding alpacas. A nugget of knowledge that you don’t have when you are new to alpacas, but years down the road seems like a pretty important piece of info worth sharing.
Not to Pick The Most [...]
This video is outstanding. A film crew from the New Hampshire Chronicle visited my friend, Valerie, at her farm – The Green Alpaca. In the video Valerie talks about alpacas being eco-friendly, we get to see her yurt, and the alpacas are completely adorable.
I have to admit that I never understood the yurt. I’m not [...]
It was disappointing to hear there was a tropical storm last week. By November we are usually past storm season. Guess nobody told Ida ’cause here she is. Heading right at us. (Our farm is in Fairhope, AL between Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL about 25 miles off the gulf coast.)
Preparing for a category 1 [...]
Fall is a wonderful time of year for alpacas on our farm.
Participating in Wordless Wednesdays.
Join us this weekend for Fairhope Alpacas‘ Alpacas 101 class.
Would you like to learn more about the alpaca business? Do you know someone who does? Our Alpacas 101 Seminar covers all you need to know before getting started. We talk about how to care for the alpacas, how to make money with alpacas, and we [...]
One of the first people I met in the alpaca industry was Joe. He is the farm manager for Creekwater Alpacas, and he has his own alpaca herd that he calls Creekwater East. When we met him we knew a lot of people named Joe, so I always called him “Alpaca Joe” when I spoke [...]
For the Alpaca Bunny Smackdown, we are giving away a skein of white royal baby alpaca yarn. This yarn was home-grown on our farm. Made from the fiber of our alpacas, Earth Angel, who won a Blue Ribbon in the National Spin-off Competition, and her son, Bishop, who was a Champion herdsire. The skein is [...]
So I’m having a dilemma. I’ve come to a crossroads.
My goal this year is to work the Fiber side of my alpaca business. To that end, I have tried new things. I have begun to knit again. I’ve learned to dye my fiber and yarn, and I’ve even tried Spinning. The idea was to try [...]
This Friday I will be getting a crash course in the Fiber Arts! My guest this weekend is Sheri Watkins from Loudon, TN. Sheri and her husband, Bill, own and operate Frostglen Alpacas. They have been alpaca breeders for 20 years!
Sheri is teaching a Beginning Spinning class here at our farm, Fairhope Alpacas, tomorrow. I [...]
Another late afternoon cria! This is the first cria for Blue Ribbon Winner WRR Sable. She has taken to motherhood beautifully. Look at her loving on him!
This handsome little guy is the first cria born to one of our customers. Sometimes our customers invest in alpacas and board them with us for months, even years. [...]
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