These are our five lovely male Alpacas! We are looking for someone who can shear them and also someone to spin their fleece into yarn.

But what are Alpacas?

Alpaca are wooly mammals related to camels and llamas. They are smaller than camels and llamas weighing in at about 120-140 lbs and having a shoulder height ranging from 3-3.5 feet. They hail from the Peruvian Andes Mountains of Western South America, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia, where they live in grasslands and scrub. Alpacas have a life span of about 15-20+ years which is pretty impressive considering they require very little food and that their diet consists of grasses, hay, grain, herbs, and plants. Alpacas communicate in mostly two ways, making sounds and spitting. Alpacas may hum, whine, grumble, cluck, and use other assorted sounds. Alpacas spit mainly as a sign of dominance, fear, or as a warning to intruders. Alpacas are very intelligent and easily trained and generally safe to have around children! They are pack animals who like to make companions with Alpacas of the same gender. There are two different types of Alpacas in the United States; the huacaya (wa-ki'-a) which has very colorful fiber that is crimpy and the suri which has fiber pencil locks (dreadlocks) that are very silky and we have some of both! 

Dusty!

Surge!

Phantom!

Pilgrim!

And our alpha male Magestic!