After one of their most successful breeding seasons on record, Erin Marsden's property near Orange in the New South Wales central west is filled with baby alpacas, known as crias. Australia's alpaca ...

Out on the plains north of Coeur d’Alene, a quiet revolution in ranching is taking place. On the land once cleared for huge cattle herds, owners with small plots have turned to breeding alpacas.

When asking a person on the street what animals they might find on a farm here in northern Illinois, alpacas probably aren’t the first ones to come to mind. Yet, there’s a thriving local business that ...

WOODSBORO — Heinz and Sue Ann Wilms, Frederick County’s first alpaca breeders since 1996, are closing shop. For $35,000, an alpaca lover can have Brookmere Alpacas at Chestnut Hill in Woodsboro, which ...

“Super Sale, Female Alpacas for $1000,” the ads proclaimed, in all caps. The offer was 90 percent off the animals’ original purchase price, the owners claimed. Males could be had for just $200 a head.

There's much more than meets the eye when it comes to the colour of an alpaca. Loading... Dr Kylie Munyard from Curtain University has spent the last nine years researching the colour genetics of the ...

UNITY, Maine (WABI) - The common person would never think about what an Alpaca could do. The fleece of these gentle and sometimes quirky animals produces sustainable clothing. For 20 years the owners ...

Free bus tour to four alpaca farms leaves IX Center on Wednesday at noon, returns 5 p.m.; go to Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association counter for directions. On a fresh spring day, Brenda Burns ...

EUGENE, Ore. - “Heeeeeeere ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca, heeeeere ‘paca ‘paaaaaaca,” Robbin Freedman calls out to a herd of around 50 grazing alpaca. Many of the three-foot tall four-legged animals ...

[imgbelt img=Two+alpacas.jpg]Alpaca ranching has been touted as a great investment, especially for retirees. But rapidly declining sales prices mean the bubble may have burst, leaving rescue ...

Standing in the green grass, with Mount Hood's white snowcapped peak on the horizon, it's hard for Marcus and Cathryn Whitman to imagine life any other way: the peace, the quiet — the alpacas.