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SuriPaco's Alpaca Shed
SuriPaco's Alpaca Shed is a mobile fiber sorting and classing operation. SuriPaco provides a regional farm an opportunity to offer it's clients and neighbors cash on site for their fiber based on it's grade. SuriPaco provides certified sorters, portable grading tables, boxes and bale bags to simplify transport to a Maine wash facility. The host farm is able to advertise the event, offer fiber related seminars and attract visitors to their farm.
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Two Juveniles looking for a "drink" |
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What's Happening |
SuriPaco Farm was started by Ken and Claudia Raessler in 2000. The farm is situated on 25 acres of farmland on the banks of the Royal River in North Yarmouth, Maine. Our 45 alpacas share 11 acres of fenced pasture. The farm consists of our home and a custom constructed, heated barn featuring a dye room, and more importantly, a bathroom. There are three additional smaller "run-in" sheds where the majority of the animals live year round. Since it's inception, SuriPaco has focused "solely" on Suri alpacas and has continuously followed the tenet "breed" up. Our success is best seen in light of our recent show experience at the 2011 Futurity and the 2011 AOBA Nationals. For the past two years we have bred a select group of core herd females to a single herdsire--Snowmass' Silken Gold. Those juveniles winning at the recent shows were his offspring. We are expecting another 15 offspring in the summer of 2012. These two groups of yearlings will then form the core herd of our improved breeding program. Waiting for these animals to mature is SuriPaco's Tormenta, a PPeruvian Torbio son who settled his first females this summer. With his density, locks, luster and conformity, we are expecting great things from him. SuriPaco currently participates in 3-4 large regional shows/year.