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Farm Mission Statement:
Our family ranch specializes in breeding, individually caring for, and
selling superbly conformed animals with prize winning fiber.
Our breeding emphasis is on fiber uniformity and density to maximize the
useful fleece production from each alpaca.
Farm Description:
We concur with Alianza that the best production alpaca has easily processed, fine, dense, fleece with uniformity in length and character on the neck, blanket, and thighs.
This gives an extra-large proportion of useable fiber from the total shear weight.
Good conformation and no guard hairs completes the picture that Alianza has described for breeding oriented to fleece production.
Putting numbers to this picture, a two year old with an AFD of 21-23, CV less than 20, annual fiber length of 4-5 inches, useable blanket of 5 lb and annual total shear weight of 8 lb comes very close to this ideal.
See our Nifty lead herdsire!
The 70 ranch is located just west of Rocky Mountain National Park and the continental divide between Grand Lake and Granby Colorado at 8400 feet altitude.
Our subirrigated pastures support an active lifestyle for our alpacas with room to run and pronk in the evening.
Since bears, mountain lions, and coyotes are ever present, we rely heavily on the team work of our guard llamas and Great Pyrenees to protect the alpaca herd.
From the second story deck on our blue barn we can toast all this camelid activity on warm summer evenings with a Pisco Sour in hand.
We would love to have you visit our ranch and share the experience.
Farm Directions:
From Denver International Airport, head west on I-70 for 60 miles to the junction with US 40. Travel west on US 40 over Berthoud pass for 40 miles to the junction with US 34 just west of Granby, Colorado.
Travel north-east on US 34 8 miles
to the junction with County Road 41 (half way between Granby and Grand Lake).
Tiurn left (north-west) on CR 41 and travel 1.8 miles to a private road on the left (north-west) marked by address signs 1901 and 1903.
Travel about 300 yards to a fork with a road sign on the left side "Alpaca Drive".
Take the left fork down past the pasture and blue barn to the ranch house.
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