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Fall 2009 Events

It's Alpaca! Store Fall Hours
Our It's Alpaca! Farm Store carries a wide variety of alpaca products, including sweaters, hats, gloves, yarn, stuffed animals, and other toys and accessories. We invite you to visit our alpacas and then take home a little of that alpaca softness for your very own.

It's Alpaca! is open from 10am to 5pm on the second Saturday of every month and every Saturday between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year that includes the following dates:

 

Don't Be Afraid to Dye

Shepherd's Purse Alpacas and Whispering Meadows Alpacas bring you the third in our series of Fiber Workshops -- Learn How to Dye Your Fiber.

Learn how to create beautiful custom-dyed yarns – something unique for your farm store, or for that special project! Here’s your chance to try lots of different techniques! You’ll be taught Space Dyeing, Rainbow Dyeing, Flip Ball Dyeing, and Immersion Dyeing, as well as dye preparation, safety techniques, and the properties of different types of dyes.

Join us on Saturday, October 3, at Whispering Meadows. We offer two sessions, from 8:30am to 12:00pm and from 1:30pm to 5:00pm.
For more information, look at the online brochure, or email us.

Meet the New Girls


Meet Maple Brook Dina, the newest addition to our herd. Dina's a very sweet nine month old girl with a crimpy and fantastically fine fleece in our favorite shade of brown. Just take a look at her upright carriage!

We bought Dina at the AOBA National Conference/World Alpaca Show auction from our new friends at Maple Brook Farm. Dina's dam, Maple Brook Danka, is a champion black Danko daughter. Her sire, Maple Brook Pendleton, is a multi-champion Royal Fawn son with Pperuvian Felix in his background. Dina is ready to carry on the winning tradition!

We have also recently added a new suri girl at Shepherd's Purse. RAAR Desert Princess comes from Rios Avanyas Alpacas via our friends at Bellasera Alpacas. Princess is a lustrous mahogany brown suri girl with superior lock and a rock solid conformation.

Princess' sire is Titan, a well-known Mahogany Prince son. Her dam, Lucy Tha, provides high quality Peruvian and Bolivian bloodlines from PPeruvian Angel and Black Fire.

The Boys Ribbon at MAPACA

SPF Ramblin' Bob earned a 4th place ribbon at the MAPACA Jubilee ("the biggest alpaca show on the planet")! Three shows, three ribbons. We are very pleased with him, as he went up against some tough competition. The judge complemented him on his luster!

Bob is an LFA Accoyo Golden Jack son out of our own Dharma. The half Accoyo boy has both Torbio and Jackpot in his background. Watch him!

Not to be outdone, SPF Mr. Xcitement walked away with the blue ribbon. This bold paster earns his name with attitude to spare.

Mr. X is our proud and upright half Accoyo huacaya boy out of Bellasera's Accoyo Romeo and our own Wings of the Storm. He boasts PPeruvian Don Juan and 4Peruvian Ajax bloodlines from dad and Ppperuvian Cordero via Peruvian Challenger from mom.

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