We spend a lot of time in the summer waiting for crias to be born. The length of an alpaca’s gestation is quite variable. We always assume 11 months as a “due date”, but we’ve seen gestations almost 3 weeks short of that and we’ve seen others over a year long. We currently have four females that are past their 11-month due date. There’s not we can do but stick close to home and keep an eye on them. They’ll be ready when they’re ready….
Our pastures are still partly snow-covered and pretty wet. Normally, we would let the pastures dry out fairly well before putting the alpacas out on a regular basis. But today was such a beautiful day, that I let the girls out into their pastures for a few hours. They loved it and the younger ones were running…
It’s time for our 3rd annual Mid-Summer Sale! We’ve reduced prices on most alpacas through the end of August. Special savings available on mature females; these are older experienced breeders whose daughters have taken their places in our breeding program. If you’re interested in a low-cost starter herd, older females are a very good choice….
It seems like 2020 just got started and suddenly it’s February! How did that happen?! And now we’re planning for April events…the first alpaca event of the season for our farm is usually the Spring Alpaca Spectacular at Eastern States Expo on April 3-5. This is a great event that includes two alpaca shows over…
What a great day! Warm and sunny. The first snowdrops are poking through the mulch around the big maple tree in the front yard. Rhubarb is poking up from an open spot in the garden. Most of our yard and fields are still covered with snow, but it’s melting fast. And so far, mud season…
Snowshoe Farm is offering free shipping on all products from our online yarn shop through December 31. Use coupon code SHIPFREE. VermontAlpacaYarn.com lists alpaca yarn, roving and felting fiber as well as dyes, needles & hooks and free patterns. All alpaca fiber used in our products is grown on our Vermont farm. We do our own shearing every…
In winter, we put hay out on the ground to get the alpacas out of the barn, walking around and (if we’re lucky) out in the sun. Come spring, one of the chores we have is raking up the old hay from the winter. Well, the weather has turned (finally!), the pastures have dried out…