Well after an event full spring with shows, new animals, new pens and so on I'm glad to be settling into the summer months. We have lots to consider and still want one more boy for our upcoming fall show season. We are very hopeful one of our boys we've been looking at will take off now that he's been split from mom.
We have had a fair show season and ended up with several ribbons at the IAI and the nationals show. If I have it right in my mind, we had one 1st and two seconds at IAI and one 1st, one 2nd and a 5th at nationals. All of which would not have been possible without my daughters hard work and time spent. They really do well with this and enjoy and deserve the occasional success. The best is hopefully yet to come.
Wow are the deals on alpacas just becoming crazy! We have seen great prices and unique plans and financing come up over the past few months. My opinion is that anyone interested should be looking now to get in. Especially if you are in a position to purchase females. I suppose prices could continue to fall but unless there is a total collapse I don't know how they could come down much more. I'm sure some unique financing and additional perks could still be tossed in but IMHO, it's a great time to be adding to or building a herd.
Other than adding 1 more boy we don't have a lot of plans for our farm at the moment. We'd love to add some females but we do not have the buildings to support such a venture and tossing in boarding costs with payments is not in the budget ATM. We have seen some very nice animals too that we'd love to pick up. We might put up another pen, but it would have no building or power so it will be a temporary, nice weather only option for now. It's a nice acre area that has lots of great growth perfect for some hungry boys!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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