We’re so proud of Snowshoe Aristides – Reserve White Male Color Champion, North American Alpaca Show 2012! His show photo arrived today and I can’t help wanting to share…
Aristides is available for breeding and we are keeping his stud fee at a low $2000 for 2012!
We’ve been watching this beautiful young female cria, Snowshoe Fancypants, tear around the pastures – she’s something else! Her fiber, we could see when we recently sheared her, is starting to crimp at the base and should be looking great by spring shearing. Fancypants is sired by our 8X Champion/Reserve Champion, Snowshoe Aristides. As part…
The fall show season is behind us and it was a very one successful one for Snowshoe Farm! We showed four alpacas at two shows this fall. Our white herdsire, Snowshoe Aristides won a blue ribbon and Reserve Champion at the Empire Alpaca Trifecta and he won a blue ribbon and Color Champion at the…
Here’s a photo of Aristides at the North East Alpaca Show. In my last post about this, I messed up his sire’s name. It’s TNT Peruvian Hit Man. Hit Man’s owners say Ari looks just like his dad.
Our first cria of 2010 was born prematurely last Tuesday. He needed support for the first few days, but finally seems to be nursing well on his own. I’ll watch him carefully during this week’s hot weather to be sure he doesn’t overheat and dehydrate. Several females are ready to give birth any day now….I’m…
Only one month of shearing left to go! Let’s hope Ron’s schedule doesn’t extend too much beyond that; it’s time for him work on a few projects at home. We have fence to install, at least one shelter to build and many cords of firewood to cut and split. And it’s almost time to start…
As part of our Mid-Summer Sale, we will be offering one alpaca each week at a deeply discounted price! We’ll start this off with a bang by offering PHAR Peruvian Fancy Free (sale priced at $7500) for $4500! Fancy is a proven female, a ribbon winner, and dam to our herdsire, Starry’s Rastaban. In addition,…
So happy you were there, Terry! All three of you are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!