It is no secret that we are good friends with Ryen and Ursula Munro, the former owners of Tripping Gnome Farm Alpacas. Our two farms also shared a very close business relationship in recent years, owning several of our most prominent Herdsires together, and we were almost always traveling together to major shows in this…
With apologies to Ms. Swift, we call this meeting to adjournment. We’re done, we’re out. If you are a female alpaca on this farm that did not get bred yet as of late last week, well then no offense to you, but I officially don’t care until after shearing day in May at the earliest,…
Why we waited to do the 3rd round of weaning for the 2012 birth class until the coldest day yet in January was perhaps lost on all of us but oh, well. There were some monsters in this group too, with several of them near or over the 100 lb. mark. Of all the criticisms…
I’ll admit that writing this post is very bittersweet for me. On the one hand it’s not every day that one gets the opportunity to essentially cherry pick animals from one of the best and most respected breeding programs in the country. On the other hand, we are seeing — and through our actions aiding…
