Our small ranch started in 2002. We are now in 2023 and still enjoying our "pacas". We have actually downsized a bit but still manage to do some breeding to maintain our herd size. During Covid we were surprised to find that visitors were wanting to come. Taking care when they came kept everyone safe and happy. The alpacas seemed to enjoy meeting new "humans". We found that people wanted to become owners of pet quality animals for their own enjoyment.
Working with our alpacas is a satisfying and relaxing project. We have learned the nuances of keeping our alpacas healthy and active. As we are now both retired, we have managed to downsize our herd. We have some older females that we haven't used in our breeding program for a while and are now our geriatric ladies who are living out their lives with us. We do still have a few breeding females on the place so we still have a couple of babies each year. Below you will see our latest young man, Oscar. He is turning into our "greeter" as he loves to be hugged and petted.
Our daughter, Lori and her husband Chris, own 9 of the alpacas that we agist and will be moving to the farm in the future.
The interest in alpacas has started to come back so we are both looking to continue with a regular breeding program . It is nice to have visitors who may be looking to raise alpacas either for pleasure or a business. If you are in our neighborhood, please stop bye. We welcome visitors and our alpacas are always ready to say "Hi". This summer has been really fun. We have had visitors from Finland, Saipan, Michigan, Connecticut, California, Florida, Seattle and Shelton(a summer school- 2 times). The school came twice because the first time our babies hadn't arrived so them cam back after the 3 crias were born. I'll put a coupld pictures below Oscar.