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What’s New!

Maryann — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:09:11 +0000

EVERYTHING is new!! Our baby season is finally over and now into just keeping our Florida Alpacas cool!
In the mean time, Florida Alpaca Breeders Association (FABA) voted myself as the new President! With the help of a great board and great members, we are looking forward to an exciting year!

At the moment we are gearing up for a new event for FABA and will keep you all up to date on that but keeping me busy for now is the FABA halter show scheduled for February 11-13th, 2011! Look for more info on our events tab in the near future!

Looking forward to a busy year!

Newest Baby!

Maryann — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:51:51 +0000

Our latest, Rimmel! She was VERY LATE but healthy and came into the world on Saturday, July 3, 2010 weighing in at 19.2 pounds! She was a bit slow to start and mom didn’t have the patience so we helped.
Milking mom through the night, Rimmel got over 16 ounces and by 8:30am Sunday, she finally latched on and hasn’t stopped since!
Our last baby of the season and a great one!

Keep cool all!

A.L. Alpaca’s Exclusivo

Maryann — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:44:04 +0000

We are proud to announce our newest Hersire, EXCLUSIVO (pronounced x-CLUE-see-vo)

Not Sure What To Do With your Breeding Program? Get A CLUE with…. EXCLUSIVO!

When we saw this man, we had to have him! Crimp, fineness, density and color, this boy has it all! His father Jericho, is the famous dark fawn, 5X champion and his mother A.L. Paca’s Chiro Upper, an 18X rose grey champion. Add that to his grandfather, the famous Simba of A.L. Paca’s, light fawn 9X champion and 12 time get of sire and his grand dam Enchantment’s Chiricahua, a dark silver grey 9X champion and you have a multi blue ribbon winner!!!!

He came home with ribbons and an exceptional ribbon lineup…………..
2nd Place 2010 MAPACA Level 5
Color Champion 2010 Palmetto Classic
1st Place 2010 Palmetto Classic
Reserve Color Champion 2010 NJ Show
1st Place 2010 NJ Show and Sale
1st 2010 Carolina Alpaca Celebration (CABO)
1st FABA Florida Show (FABA)
1st 2009 PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase
1st 2009 Virginia Classic
1st 2009 Carolina Alpaca Celebration
2nd 2009 MAPACA Jubilee
1st 2008 MABA Alpaca Celebration
2nd 2008 VAOBA

Clue has now settled his first females! Look for his first offspring in W.V. and Virginia and now Florida offspring this fall. We are excited to have had him bred to his first grey’s in Florida as well.
He is going to be our “snowbird alpaca” as he is co-owned with our great friends, Ashland Alpacas, Meadow Pointe Alpacas & The Marsh Menagerie and will be spending the summers in West Virginia and Virginia and staying with us here in Florida from Nov through May.

We are offering an Introductory price for a limited time so book today!

Stud Fee: $1500.00

Fiber Stats / Scientific Data:
MICRON ANALYSIS: AFD:20.5; SD:4.1; CV:20.0; %>30m:2.5

Princess

Maryann — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:34:47 +0000

PRINCESS
The Perfect Appaloosa!! Dropping names of her predigree like Peruvian Hemingway, Moustachio, Macusani and Predictor, this little girl was bound for stardom. Her first show at 9 months old at FABA, she now is a blue ribbon winner. Now pregnant with our award winning Herdsire Ruger, we can not wait until this fall for her first cria. The lineage and cross between these two, we are expecting pure perfection! Come back this November to see the exciting outcome.

Type: Female Huacaya
Status: Pregnant / Unproven
Due: November 20, 2010

Birthdate: 5/9/2007
Heritage: 1/8 Chilean, 3/4 Peruvian

Registration: ARI Registered
ARI #: 30865174
Color: Pattern (White, Medium Brown)

Awards Received
1st place 2008 FABA show in Florida
3rd place 2008 Futurity in Kentucky
1st place 2008 VAOBA Fleece Show

Price: $45000

Maryann — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:42:44 +0000

Baby Watch

Maryann — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:41:56 +0000

October 2, 2009

As Northern farms are starting to buckle down for the winter, we start on baby watch!!! Being in Florida gives us an edge on birthing season and our moms love the cooler weather during their last trimester. Up first, Barbi Doll. We bought her open but soon realized she just didn’t like ANY of our boys. A phone call later, found out she could be pregnant and sure enough we get a great surprise and gift. Thanks to some quick breeding by our friends the Vining’s and their boy Shadow Dancer, we are looking for a cria within the next 2 weeks!! Soon to follow, Kathy Cramer from Meadow Pointe Alpacas has an amazing girl Gracie due with our newest herdsire Ruger, the first Ruger baby to hit the ground in Florida!!! On to our Nutmeg and then Spiced Cider owned by Kathy and Mark Weber of Wooly Weber’s Alpacas is due with our next Ruger baby! Watch for pictures and hopefully a birth live on our cam if I can catch it!!!

We take a break then 4 more due in the spring. The biggest anticipation will be in April when our Willie will go for her third birth. Why the anticipation you ask? Well, her first cria was born 3 1/2 weeks early (our blue eyed white Tutu) and she ran away never to return. We got her pregnant again and figured with maiden’s it can happen, mother nature didn’t kick in but next time she will. Well, she birthed Payton 5 days early and did like him a bit more but refused to feed him as well. We drugged her, milked her, tied her but nothing worked.
3 times a charm or 3 strikes your out!!!!! If you see our Willie go up for sale after April and really cheap, you will know what happened!!!! Keep your fingers crossed as we are, we may need any help we cn get. If I have to feed another bottle baby, i am going to scream!

New Blog

Maryann — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:26:40 +0000

October 1, 2009

I haven’t blogged in so long, don’t know where to begin! It has been a crazy year with new babies this spring and last fall, 2 bottle babies, boys, boys, boys, inducing labor for the first time, maidens with a few rough births but all in all, it has been a great year!!!!!

The sad before the good. Rest in peace to one of the most amazing alpacas we have owned. Our Staz was coming up on 14 years. She seemed to drag just a bit last summer with her pregnancy and we had decided even before she gave birth to retire her and just live her life out on our farm. At birth, she didn’t have any milk and with a weak little boy by her side, she allowed us to bring in her little boy in the house every night to bottle feed all night over the first month. She always greeted us with kisses to us and her baby in the morning and just loved her little man. About a month after birthing she cushed and never got up. We had to euthanize her 2 days later.
To our Staz, a warm, loving, caring, easy handler and greatest mom we have ever owned. Thank you for giving us so much love in our lives and for giving us our greatest gift……you and now in our hearts forever, Nicholas. Now you all know why my Nicholas is so close to my heart.

Aussie Dillinger’s Ruger

Maryann — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:55:01 +0000

Need bloodlines, crimp, density and color? This boy has it all!!! A multi blue ribbon winner and a 6 time color champ says it all!!! Don’t let his pattern fool you, Ruger has produced 2 dark brown/bay blacks when bred to dark brown and we now have a remarkable jet black from a dark brown! He has produced one amazing little girl that is white with black spots and black socks and the dam was white with dark fawn on the face. Bottom line…….He can do it all!!!

UPDATE: Ruger will be standing at stud at Bear Garden Farms in W. Virginia!! Jump on this great chance to bring in the most versatile and superior bloodlines into your herd! Please call Terri at Bear Garden Farms to book your breeding to this amazing male today! www.beargardenfarms.com
Book now for your Fall breedings as Ruger is coming home in the Fall!

Type: Huacaya
Status: Proven

Birthdate: 10/8/2004
Heritage: 3/4 Peruvian

Registration: ARI Registered
ARI #: 1345407
Color: Medium Fawn

Lineage:

NWA, Ltd. Carmella
Light Fawn, 822205

Aussie Colorado Dillinger
Medium Fawn, 823163

Awards Received:
Color Champion at the 2006 Futurity in KY
2006 Reserve Color Champion at the 2006 TxOLAN Show
Blue Ribbon 2005 Great Western Alpaca Show in Denver, Colorado
Color Champion 2005 Great Western Alpaca Show in Denver, Colorado
Blue Ribbon 2005 All American Futurity at just 6 months 1 week of age, judged by Jude Anderson. Now, thats impressive!
Color Championship 2005 Mid-America Show in Topeka, Kansas

Stud Fee: $2500.00

Show, shows and more shows!!!!

Maryann — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:22:02 +0000

So, when getting into the industry, showing can be a big part. We have gone to all our Florida shows every year, showed one of our herdsires for the first time in 2005 and then again in 2006 but have hit the show circuit running starting late last year and into this spring. One of our future herdsires, Vanguard started in the fall of last year winning a second place out of 13 at barely 6 months old. He then went on to Texas and took a very close third out of 15 with the judge remarking on his wonderful presence and how masculine he was. Then, we bought a girl in Jacksonville last month and showed her that Sun. and she took the 1st place spot and we came home with a blue ribbon. We are now on our way to Arizona with Vanguard and then to Kentucky for one of the most prominent shows in the country, Futurity! Not only is Vanguard going to be there but also our girl, Princess who took the first in Jacksonville.
Showing is a wonderful way to get your farm name out there, educate yourself on what to look for when buying animals, what the judges look for and really make your farm known with what you have, what others can produce with your animals and don’t forget rubbing elbows with some of the best farms in the industry! Showing your girls is a wonderful way to get your feet wet and then when you think your ready and you think you may have that “special” male, show him! It seems that most of the well known herdsires in the country come from well known offspring and have the ribbons to back it up. Bringing home those top awards just adds to the quality of your male and helps in advertising for future breedings. So, have those boys at home that look like they may be that “special” one, get them in the ring, show as much as you can and good luck bringing home those top awards!

Vanguard

Maryann — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:32:31 +0000

This Herdsire, Prisidio son, has become quite a man. Winning a 2nd in Colorado in 2007 at barely 6 months, then on to Texas to win a 3rd in a class of 15! Now at the age of 2, he has settled his first females in Florida! With his amazing crimp, fineness and density, he is sure to up your breeding program. We look forward to seeing his first offspring in March. Book today and 2 or more breedings to our herdsires gets big discounts!

Type: Huacaya
Status: Settled/Unproven

Birthdate: 11/25/2006
Heritage: Peruvian/Bolivian

Registration: ARI Registered
ARI #: 30441286
Color: White

Stud Fee: $1500.00