Professional Supportive Virginia Alpaca Farm Businesses

Alpaca raising is becoming a really popular lifestyle choice for many retirees and even young couples who want to escape the hectic rush of city life and pressures of corporate America. Some people are buying the animals and having them boarded at an existing farm while they save money to purchase their own. Alpaca farmers make money by selling their animals for quite a bit of money. Breeding them and renting out males for hefty stud fees makes money for them.

Because these animals are very low maintenance, every time one is born it's almost like having someone just writes you a check. With one birth a year a herd can be built up slowly because every year there could be almost double the amount of animals from the year before. The dung makes a very rich fertilizer and that's a potential money maker too. Last, the wool is very much in demand. There's far more demand than there is product, making it a high-end commodity for profit. Several farmers in the Virginia highlands have very good, established businesses and welcome visitors.

http://www.thealpacagarden.com/
The Alpaca Garden is really using all their resources that mark a professional alpaca grower. They will provide boarding and offer a newsletter to alert subscribers of sales and future deals coming up. It's only $15 by paypal. They help other people with consignment sales. They will do auto-CAD layouts for barns and alpaca shelters. They even design web sites for other growers. They also sell alpaca products like socks, stoles, and blankets. Free boarding comes with all purchases. There's a female now offered for $15,000 and a half-interest in a male stud for $10,000. They have an invaluable resource link on their front page which tells people how much to expect to pay to get into the business, and other financial tips. Give them a call to establish a time to visit.
The Alpaca Garden
25601 Stonesiffer Lane
Unionville, VA 22567
540-854-6907

Rivanna River Farm is also an alpaca fiber studio. They are full-time breeders and farmers of Huacaya alpacas, located twenty minutes north of Charlottesville in the central Virginia mountains. From their herd of 25 Huacayas, they currently are charging $2,000 to $2,500 stud fees for their best males. Females for sale range from $15,000 to $25,000 for their females. People can also purchase breeding packages with stud rights, etc. depending on the package. The fiber studio is open the first Monday of every month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. They charge $9 and $10 for the 2-pz. skeins. Now you know why these animals are so expensive!
5754 Advance Mills Road
Ruckersville, Virginia 22968
434-973-8312

http://www.alpacaadvantage.com/
The Alpaca Advantage offers interested parties a free report on raining alpacas, and they sell a guide put together to help people plan their businesses. This is $10. Their store link has dozens of finished products made from alpaca fur. People can obtain information on their herdsires and purchase a few young males from them from $7,000 to $9,000. The females always cost more, of course. This farm is asking $10,000 to $16,000 for theirs.
Alpaca Advantage
River Bend Farm
484 River Bend Farms Road
Front Royal, VA
(540) 635-5308