Helpful Alpaca Information

Find useful alpaca information on different topics ranging from alpaca shearing, managing your alpaca herds, tips for alpaca breeders, online alpaca library, other alpaca farms and information on various alpaca organizations.

On Time Transport

Alpaca Q & A


Alpaca Library 

Alpaca Shearing Services

Alpaca Herd Management Tools

Alpaca End Products

Networks of Alpaca Farms

Alpaca Training
 
Farm Products

Statistics

Education

Alpaca Organizations

Alpaca Breeders Tips 

 FARM VISIT EXCHANGE PROGRAM
 This page is dedicated to providing education and  information to prospective alpaca buyers or new alpaca  owners. The alpaca farms listed here will be happy to scedule a farm visit and  provide any helpful information they can offer. There will be no pressure to buy animals from their farm. These farms understand that you may be looking to buy at a different ranch or farm but would like to further your alpaca knowledge. These farms are working together to help you, the buyer become more informed without having to travel long distances to a farm or get high pressured when you get there.

 Maple Tree Farm Inc  
 Northwest Alpacas






Alpaca Breeding Farm - Northwest Alpacas specializes in raising suri and huacaya alpacas for sale, and alpaca business plans for breeders and owners worldwide.

Herd Growth Calculator

Color Calculator

AOBA - Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association. Through its efforts, shows are organized, educational events held, and the direction of the industry is set.

Alpaca Association NewZealand - National association for New Zealand alpaca breeders. Information available on alpaca fibre, alpaca shows, alpaca history and how to advertise in the alpaca magazine.

Australian Alpaca Association - a national association of like-minded people to promote and grow the concept of alpaca as a viable and sustainable primary industry.

International Alpaca Association -a private-sector association with nonprofit purposes. The IAA brings together companies and individual breeders involved in the productionand commercialization of fiber from alpacas, llamas, and other South American camelidae and their hybrids.

The Alpaca Registry - The Alpaca Registry, Inc., a Colorado non-profit corporation, maintains the Alpaca Registry database housing the genealogy, blood typing and ownership records of alpacas in North America since 1988.

The Piece of Mind Company - One-of-a-kind "Fabric Collages" by artist, Juliana Petty of Alpaca Meadows in Ohio. Fabric art in the form of beautiful wall hangings can be special ordered to include pictures of your favorite alpacas and those Kodak moments that you'll always cherish. 

Welcome to Shepherd's Purse Alpacas - Source for fine alpacas and alpaca products in the Baltimore/Washington area.

Alpaca111 - offering the world products of the highest quality, enriched by the Andean tradition, exporting textile products to the most demanding markets on the globe.

http://woolfestival.com/ - Get your festival fix at home! Community board, library of articles, calendar of events kids tent and our popular marketplace of wool vendors!

The Joy of Handspinning> - the web site for handspinners providing how-to instructions, video demonstrations, books, spinning wheels, natural fibers, carding equipment, natural dyes, and mordants to beginning and advanced handspin

Alpaca Advantage - Free report on alternative lifestyle and income from breeding alpacas. Syndicate investments available. Some of the best Peruvian and Bolivian bloodlines. Package deals. Business planning, marketing, and sales help available.

Alpacas-alpacas.org - a directory of alpaca associations and breeders.

© Copyright 2005 Maple Tree Farm, Inc.

Maple Tree Farm: Iowa Alpaca Farming