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Alpaca Breeder Farm

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For about 5 years my husband Bob and I were like kids with their noses pressed against the window from the outside looking in. Bob heard about the Great Western Alpaca show held every May in Denver, CO, on the way home from work one day and just on a whim thought it would be fun to go and see what alpacas were all about.

We did, and in that one Saturday, we were completely sold. For the next 5 years desperately wanted to become Alpaca owners. We went to seminars, visited farms, went to shows and in general got to know the Alpaca culture.

We saw that culture as a wonderful business with really great people that we were so attracted to. The animals were so appealing and there were so many options and ways to go in the business that we felt we would never lose interest or stop having challenges to grow.

In June of 2007 we bought out first 2 animals from Lonesome Stone Alpaca Ranch in Grandy, CO. (We live in Arvada, CO, a suburb of Denver.) Bob's dad had left a small inheritance to each of his children upon his passing and we decided to step out and take the plunge. We bought our first female (9 months old) La Zona, and our first male (3 months), Sterling, who showed promise of being a good herd sire.

Marv and Linda Dewey, the owners of Lonesome Stone, have an outstanding farm that includes a state of the art mill. They are wonderful owners who take wonderful care of every one of their alpacas and have been a wonderful example to us of how to run an alpaca business. Since our beginning, our female, La Zona, has given us two boys and then just this July a little girl that was sired by our male, Sterling.

For financial reasons, unfortunately, we are unable to go forward with our business and need to sell. We love our alpacas and will really miss them but hope we can find a good home for them.