Lease-An-Alpaca

The hardest part for any new alpaca farmer is the acquisition of good stock.  You can get a "pet" male for a couple hundred bucks, but we're not big on just pets.  Yes, our chickens are treated like little queens, especially by our kids, but we keep them for the eggs.  Likewise, the alapacas are going to be ours for the fiber as much as anything else.  To that end, we're looking for excellent animals with good fiber qualities.  We know we won't be able to get the best right off the bat, but Super Suris in Green Bluff has a new program that we're very excited about.  Soon we hope to lease a bred female from them for a year, during which time we hope she'll have a healthy baby (next summer some time).  When she does, that baby will be ours, permanently.

More news to come as we work out the details.