life... on the farm: Alpaca Western Extravaganza 2010

We entered Tucker and Tehya in the spin off at the Alpaca Western Extravaganza.

Tucker won 1st place!

The judge said:
"beautiful color, nice sample"
"a joy to spin"
The negatives were that is was a little sandy and some second cuts.

Tehya won 2nd place!

The judge said:
"nice luster to locks"
"well defined crimp"
The negatives were that there were some second cuts in the sample (totally our fault) and there was some sand in the sample.

Lesson learned, we must skirt out those second cuts and shake out that sand.

The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.

life... on the farm

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Alpaca Western Extravaganza 2010

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