life... on the farm: Our Show Alpacas

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Our Show Alpacas

This weekend we brought 7 alpacas with us to GMAF:
+ 2 boys
+ 2 huacaya girls
+ and 3 suri girls

I took these pictures when we arrived on Friday before we were all set up (so our signs and such aren't up yet like they are during the actual show).

Our two boys, Gabe and Gabe:

We didn't name either of these boys, we just ended up with 2 Gabes. One is Gabriel Star of RobAsia (the black one) the other is TCS Gabriel (the beige one). They are both older boys and breeding age so they are quick to check out all the ladies at the show.

Our two huacaya girls are Lady Bing (medium fawn) and Duchess (dark brown):

The suri girls did not want to cooperate with pictures. First I just had Maxine and Candy (Take Five) with Patty off drinking water:

This one you can sort of see Patty's face, but they still aren't really showing off their stuff here either:

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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.