I've based the alpaca pricing on quality, pedigree, other farms and recent auction prices. Additional discounts beginning Fall 2024 to reduce herd size.
So why raise alpacas? To avoid their extinction! Alpacas have been domesticated for thousands of years, but due to restrictions on exporting, terrorist, economic and other events, their world population was declining and is still quite small today.
Alpacas are an amazing and wonderful, easy to keep/ easy on the land, and multipurpose farm animal. There's nothing else like the beautiful alpaca. Every product is intrinsically superior...the softest and warmest fleeces which improve with each generation of selective breeding. They come in vivid natural colors, the leanest protein (if you so choose), "black gold" manure and the most adorable babies, called cria. Alpacas are easy to keep, graze fields without pulling the roots out, typically have mid-day births that usually need no assistance; are easy to train, safe to handle, and profitable.
New breeders always are needed for national herd growth and to replace retiring breeders. Feel an alpaca cria fleece, wear alpaca sweaters and socks...and you will become a believer too. The world needs more alpacas!