Penny Lane’s new cria
A new cria was born here yesterday. Penny Lane, owned by New Millennium, had her first cria, a male who will be named Lennon. He is small – just over 13 lbs, but spunky. He’s nursing well and Penny is being a good mother.
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Free Breeding!
Come to our Mid-Summer Sale this weekend and enter a drawing to win a free breeding to your choice of Snowshoe Farm herdsires including our White Male Color Champion, Snowshoe Aristides! You will also have a chance to win a $500 credit towards a breeding or purchase of a breeding quality alpaca. Don’t forget we…
15th Anniversary Sale!
To celebrate 15 years breeding alpacas, Snowshoe Farm is offering 15% off all alpacas and stud fees through the end of 2014! And you can extend the savings by reserving a 2015 breeding now. A deposit will hold a breeding to any of our herdsires – including multi-champion, Snowshoe Aristides – at the 15% off…
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Farming During a Power Outage
Here in northern Vermont we received over a foot of heavy, wet snow earlier this week. The temps have hovered right around freezing and the snow is sticking to all the trees and lines and weighing them down. There are widespread power outages. At Snowshoe Farm, We’ve been without power for almost 48 hours. Fortunately,…
Alpacas for Sale
Alpacas for sale and on sale! It’s a new year and time to reevaluate our sales list. We’ve slowly been going down the list and adjusting prices. Some up-and-coming young alpacas are being added and a number of older alpacas are having their prices slashed. We’re also lowering prices on certain alpacas to change up…
The Vermont Farm Show
Snowshoe Farm will once again participate in the Buy Local Market at the Vermont Farm Show. This year marks the 84th annual farm show. Along with the usual fare of machinery and equipment displays, association meetings and agricultural products contests is the Wednesday evening Buy Local Market. This is an event that should appeal to…
Herd Health
We’re been working on herd health this week. Each afternoon, we pick a group of alpacas and check each alpaca’s weight and body condition, trim its toenails and give it a dectomax injection. It’s been good to see some of the alpacas that were skinny during the winter (like moms that were nursing big crias…