An alpaca breeding facility doesn’t usually get great notoriety from an animal that doesn’t win ribbons or produce show stopping progeny, but that is exactly what happened with Columbia Mist Brando’s Napoleon. This beautiful cria ( newborn alpaca) was bred and born at Columbia Mist’s facility in Woodland and subsequently donated to Mt. Peaks Therapy Llamas to be their first therapy alpaca. Mt. Peaks Llamas is home to two unique therapy llamas named Rojo and Smokey, and a rescued therapy-llama-in-training named Beni. Napoleon came out in style April 1 at the Dove Lewis “Boutiques Unleashed” fund raiser at the Tiffany
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ariEPDs: An Alpaca Breeder’s Evolution
Read about our journey to “Consistent Quality you can Measure” as printed in the ARI December 2012 Newsletter! by Daryl Gohl In 1998, when my wife, Ruthie, and I began Wildflower Alpacas, there were less than13,000 alpacas in the U.S. At the time we were assigned show number 584 by AOBA. Making breeding decisions for herd improvement were primarily based on selecting from a limited supply of imported herd sires. Being a numbers-oriented person, I was concerned that there were not many quality indicators being measured. Many farms were not submitting fiber for yearly histograms; so many people evaluated
Alpaca Registry, Inc. and Ideal Alpaca Community Consolidate EPD Systems
ARI announced its recent agreement with Ideal Alpaca Community (IAC) and IAC’s founder, Mike Safley, to consolidate IAC’s Expected Progeny Difference (EPD) program into ARI’s. Combining the two programs will exponentially expand the number of alpacas with EPD results and improve the results accuracy, making EPDs even more meaningful in objective breeding and buying decisions. This unification will dramatically grow the alpaca industry’s recognition throughout the livestock community while enabling breeders to focus on those traits most important to their individual alpaca operations. Wildflower Alpacas has been proud of being part of the Ideal Alpaca Community for three years.
North American Alpaca Fiber Producers Cooperative Receives Federal Grant
The North American Alpaca Fiber Producers cooperative plans to use the $68,950 grant to market coop products, increase membership and improve operational efficiency.
National Alpaca Day 2010
We invite you to visit Wildflower Alpacas on National Alpaca Day Sunday, September 26, 2010 from 10 am to 4 pm. See our quality herd of 45 + alpacas who have won 141 ribbons in just 15 major shows! We even have eight new cria “babies” to hold and pet. Investigate if this business can help you realize your lifestyle and income goals. Watch an experienced fiber sorter evaluate fleece. Find out how sorting your fiber each year can make a big difference in the quality and price of alpaca products you can sell. ( You can also bring
2010 Show Season Wrap up!
“Consistent Quality” is the tagline for Wildflower Alpacas. While not everyone of our alpacas wins either a blue or red ribbon, we are proud of the fact that our alpacas are usually in the final pack getting a ribbon vs getting the gate at the largest alpaca shows in the U. S.
Planters Days & Open House!
Woodland Planters Days 2010 – Thursday, June 17th to Sunday, June 20th. Wildflower Alpacas Open House – Sunday, June 20th 11-4 pm Planters Days, first held in 1922, is the longest continuously running civic celebration in the State of Washington. What better way to begin your summer than a visit to historic Woodland, Washington and our farm, just 25 miles north of Portland, Oregon on interstate 5: your southern gateway to the Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Planters Days is a four day festival celebrating the completed construction of the dikes along
Alpacas featured on Today Show
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KOIN News Covers Alpaca
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