June 2006

August 2011

This month we are celebrating our 10 year anniversary.  We opened our farm to the public in June 2006, and it has been a wonderful 10 years.  Since beginning our farm, we have had 82 alpaca crias born on the farm, offered numerous fiber art classes, sold many alpacas and seen them settled into their new farms, and met people from all over the United States and the world who have visited our farm while traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway.  When we started 10 years ago, we could never have imagined how much fun we would have growing this farm or the extent to which it would grow.

August 2014

Thank You to all of our wonderful friends of the farm.

As a thank you to our wonderful customers, we invite you to take 10% off any order online or in the store through the end of the month.  Use the code 10YEAR when you checkout online or mention our celebration in the shop.

Monday, June 13, Cocoabean gave birth to a beautiful bay black girl.  We had suspected that Cocoa was planning to give birth when our backs were turned, and she proved us right.  Less than half and hour after Mike walked by the pasture and into the store, a farm visitor came in the shop and mentioned the new baby.  Mike, thinking she was referring to Hawkeye, told her he was a few weeks old, to which she replied, that the cria looked brand new.  They went back outside to see our adorable Star Sapphire, sitting up and ready to face the world.

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Star is a fun, active cria who got a great start in life.  When the crias are 24-48 hours old, we do a blood test to check how well antibodies passed from the mother’s colostrum to the cria.  Star’s results were excellent (greater than 2500 mg/dl), meaning she starts out with a strong immune system.  She weighed 21.4 pounds at birth and is growing steadily.

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Hawkeye is happy to have a playmate, and the two crias are having fun running around together.  You can see them both in the pasture by the store.  Hope to see you soon.

On May 27, our beautiful Elise gave birth to her first cria.  Hawkeye is a gorgeous, medium fawn little boy with dense curly fleece, and looks just like his sire Polar Ice.  He weighed 21.9 pounds at birth and is full of energy, already wishing the other mamas would go ahead and give birth to his future playmates.