White Male Color Champions!!
Results are in from the Northeast Alpaca Expo! We are so proud of our two males – full brothers – Snowshoe Aristides and Snowshoe Astraios. They won White Male Color Champion and White Male Reserve Color Champion.
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Spring is on the way!
It’s another beautiful day in the Kingdom! Cold nights and warm sunny days are perfect for sugaring, skiing and drying up muddy roads. The ‘pacas are happily eating hay out in the sun and we are starting to eliminate hay bedding and, hopefully, getting their fleeces cleaned up a bit before shows and shearing.
Newest cria
Rosita has been under our watchful eyes for weeks now as she often has her crias early. Finally – at day 340 – she had her cria at around 2:00 this afternoon. A big boy – 19.5 lbs. He looks to be medium silver gray. He’s active and pretty steady on his feet. Nice looking…
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Alpaca Fiber Workshop Series
On Saturday, Oct 10, we will offer the first in a series of workshops for learning how to take a raw alpaca fleece and turn it into yarn. This first workshop will be a hands-on fiber skirting session. Bring your own fleece or purchase one of ours at a discounted price. We’ll focus on skirting…
Winter in November
No alpacas in the pastures this morning! Up until now, they’ve been spending their days grazing on what little green was left in the fields and seemed to be very comfortable with the mostly dry, but cold weather we’ve been having. But this morning, we woke to 6 degrees, snow and high winds. Not entirely…
Shearing Esther Rose
The last alpaca we sheared last week was our beautiful rose gray female, Esther Rose. Here are some photos of the process:
First Cria of 2014
And she’s over a month early…. At 301 days gestation, she’s by far the earliest cria born at Snowshoe Farm. She’s small – only 11.4 lbs – but not frighteningly small. It took her about an hour to be able to hold herself sternal and about 4 hours before she managed to find her legs….
Congratulations to Aristides & Astraios…….