We’re putting animals into an alpaca auction in Virginia…in the month of August. Hmm, why the sense of deja vu? 😉 As those of you that have followed our ups and downs over the years may recall, we were fortunate for several years (2008 to 2010) to be part of a very special event, the National…
You know having just written that headline, there are just so many things one could read into it. Does realizing that make me a bad person? Leaving that existential question aside though, the whole purpose of this post was to announce that we will be offering a special promotion on the stud services of our…
It has been an interesting few days here at the farm. Monday dawned with the news that one of our skinny mommas in the Arena’s warm room, Awesome Blossom, was stumbling around and eating sand. Never the the greatest start to any week. Though we knew that she had lost a lot of body condition…
As I pointed out a couple of days ago, going to alpaca shows with high expectations can be an exercise in futility and disappointment some times. What you think you have in your show pens and what the judges think you have are not always the same thing. Let us also not forget that particularly…
In the 9 years since we were first partners in the Herdsires that are collectively known as the North American Alpaca Stud, few lines have garnered less attention while in point of fact getting more done than that of Snowmass Andean Bronze. While he has never given us a male replacement we felt worthy of that…
I’ve been meaning to get a picture of this little guy since he was born a couple of weeks ago but have always found myself at the Arena sans camera whenever I thought of it. The still unnamed boy will be at least bay black if not true black before we’re done. This was of course…
