Silver Fox Farm Alpacas

Welcome to Silver Fox Farm Alpacas! This is our website to buy items made from alpaca fiber. 

We have all kinds of wonderful alpaca products available for sale! 

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There are many varieties of socks, heavy duty ones for those artic blast winter days all the way to light weight ankle socks for every day wear. If you have never tried alpaca, I highly recommend you try alpaca socks, they are so soft and comfortable and very affordable. We also have several styles of gloves, mittens, wrist warmers, a large selection of hats, headbands, soft luxurious scarves, yarn, dryer balls, blankets, and throws. 

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Alpaca fiber is a wonderful  natural material that is very soft, comfortable and durable. It is hypoallergenic, moisture wicking, odor resistant, temperature regulating and sustainable. I have many repeat customers, who just love wearing it and giving it as gifts. 

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About the farm.  The farm is home to twenty alpacas, eight cats, one llama and a Great Pyrenees livestock harassing dog. We do allow visitors.  The farm is open for visitors without an appointment during alpaca farm days the last weekend in September. ( More about that later)

Other times tours can be arranged by appointment on weekends only.

(Still working full time)

 

The idea for the alpacas originally was to get some live lawnmowers to eat the grass in the fenced in pastures. We did some research and decided on alpacas. Four alpacas were purchased from a nearby ranch. We started with Fettuccine, Doc, Calico, and Willy. The four boys were absolutely beautiful but did not eat enough grass to keep the pasture cut. So... in June two more male alpacas were purchased to eat the grass. The two brothers, Shamrock and Hershel, joined the herd.

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Alpacas are like potato chips, you can't have just six. So we continued to look for more. One evening while checking Craigslist we found a FREE to good home. We beat the crowd and picked up our seventh male alpaca, Al Pacachino, in late July.

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Al has an interesting story. He was rescued from a hoarder and his halter has grown into his face. He was living with goats. He had never been with other alpacas. The goats died after rescue and Al was put with cows. He did okay with cows until a bull was added to the mix. Al and the bull did not get along. Therefore, Al was given up for adoption for free. The farmer wanted Al to go to a good forever home. Al had not been sheared and it was late July. We contacted Bruce, the man who does shearing, he had stopped for the season but came out to the farm as it was an urgent situation. He and his wife Amy came out on a Sunday morning and sheared Al. While we were shearing Al, it came up in conversation that we wanted some black alpacas to round out the herd. It just so happened that they knew a lady selling off her alpacas due to health problems-she specialized in black alpacas.

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A couple of weeks later, we increased the herd to twenty. We bought the last thirteen alpacas, six males and seven females.

The males were Suri and the females were Hucaya. So we bought one more Suri girl to round out the herd.

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CJ the llama is our most recent addition. He was left behind to guard the sheep when the last of the alpaca herd was sold. CJ prefers to guard alpacas, so he came to live with his old herd at Silver Fox Farm.

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