Saturday, March 9, 2013
We are so pleased to welcome The Black Medallion to our farm! This fine male comes from Wing & A Prayer Alpacas. This amazing True Black Herdsire that has it all. Fineness, Density, Bundling Crimp and Excellent Confirmation. Check out his fiber stats at age 4!
During the 2009 show season, the Judges commented on Black Medallion being "the next generation of black fleece". His show career is impressive taking first at Futurity, CABA, GWAS and a color at CABA all as a juvie.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
We were honored to have guests from the Netherlands visit our farm this past weekend. It was delightful to meet with Pauline & Jan-Willem who operate a family owned mink ranch. Raising mink is interesting and they have 6,000 mink that sustains their family business. We learned a lot about their business and how closely it parallels alpaca ranching. The main difference of course, is that alpacas are not harmed in the harvest of their fleece.
Holland’s government has put a ban in place to stop read more...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Nothing better than gathering to show off your herdsire, fiber and pen sale animals! This year, AAWW selected the location and it was held at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington. At last count, 17 farms were represented with over 50 animals on site.
We sold a variety of alpaca products throughout the day with a steady stream of visitors that were attending the neighboring gun show.
It was a cold, wet day but nothing warms my heart more than seeing fellow alpaca breeders a read more...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
My Survivor Slipper Socks were specially designed by a cancer survivor to keep the feet cozy and warm. Chemo treatments can cause the patient to be cold. The treads on the socks enable the wearer to go shoeless during treatments or at home.
These will make an excellent gift for love ones that are in a treatment or just anyone that wants to support them and wear any time at home. Made in the USA. Easy to care for, machine wash and dry.
We have these in stock, pink. Let us know if you'd li read more...
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
We delivered a trailer load of alpacas today consisting of three males and three bred females. This group was a herdstarter package for a new breeder. This sale felt great but it was bittersweet at the time of delivery. Why, you ask?
One of the bred females was our very first alpaca we purchased. Apple-Co Liberty will start another new farm now. Liberty taught us the ropes with her kind and gentle nature. She earned her keep by giving us four beautiful and healthy crias....two girls and two b read more...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Fawning all over what food coloring can do with fawn alpaca yarn….wow….the beautiful vibrant colors that are true and colorfast! What fun!
Our herd keeps growing and we are moving into more fawn colored alpacas. They can add great fleece characteristics such as fineness, color and crimp and you can breed with silver and get that highly-sought after rose grey! That's my plan anyways.
These photos represent a very frozen winter day and yarn from our herdsire, Premier’s Gold Standard. He’s a read more...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Old man winter is here. This time of year, going outside to work the herd and the pastures gets miserable. I’m not gonna lie…..the wet, cold rainy blustery days are no fun to be outside. The best part of that is the alpaca interaction. Each one has their own look as if they say “hey, thanks for coming out and feeding me, I’m hungry, or it's about time.....” We save field cleaning for the weekends, although our daughter Stephanie goes out and does the main fields midweek. With short daylight hour read more...
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
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