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SuriPaco's Alpaca Shed
SuriPaco operates a fiber buying service, including on-site sorting and classing, collaborative commercial production opportunities and manages a mid-scale skein dyeing operation for natural fibers. Our range of services offers a regional farm the opportunity to serve it's customers and neighbors by organizing an event where cash is paid on site for fiber based on grade, consistency and lack of contamination. A host farm working with SuriPaco 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. Previously situated on 25 acres in North Yarmouth, Maine in Dec. of 2012, the farm moved its herd to an alternative location and centralized its fiber operations in an old textile mill in Biddeford, Maine where the farm is also responsible for operation of mid-size skein dyeing operation. Since inception, SuriPaco has focused "solely" on Suri alpacas and has continuously followed the tenet to "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 in the summer of 2011 and now has cria on the ground. As a herdsire, Torbio offers density, locks, luster and conformity and we are expecting great things from him. In breeding, we follow fiber statistics and skin density biopsy results.