History of the Mount Airy Alpaca Co.
with photos of alpacas and offspring

We started preparing for our alpaca farm in 1998. This included reading everything we could find on alpacas, going to alpaca seminars, building barns and fencing but also shopping for our first alpaca females for breeding stock. We are in the process of creating this history of our alpaca farm but the first pages are now on our web site. These pages show our female alpacas plus links to their parents and photos of many of their offspring as well as information about where they are now. The females that we bought were:

Latte

Primrose

Dancer

Creampuff

Morgan

Jezebel

You can see the story of the last year of our alpaca breeding on our alpaca blog

Below is an early photo from our farm with Latte, Pinka, Dancer, Cher and Primrose pictured.

Over the years, we did almost everything relating to alpaca breeding including shearing alpacas, hand spinning our fleeces, giving shots and drawing blood, putting together alpaca shows and fleece shows, showing in halter, showmanship, obstacle and costume classes, and even saved our alpacas from attacking dogs. One of our last acts as an alpaca breeding farm was to film and produce an alpaca care DVD.

Just for fun, I uploaded a small mishmash of pieces of our DVD on YouTube. I took out the voice over narration and put in music and added clips of the alpaca cria playing and hanging out with their dams. Pretty amateurish compared to the finished movie but it was fun doing it. The trouble with YouTube is that you have to compress the file so much that the resolution looks bad.