Fiberguild

We have been raising alpacas for over a decade now.  These are by far the easiest livestock we have dealt with.

Two steers run last summer and turned into locker beef in the fall did more damage to fences and buildings that 20 alpacas have in a decade!

The downturn in the economy has had a major impact on the prices of alpacas.  I suspect that much of the market was being financed with home equity, and that tap is pretty dry these days with property values working their ways back down to something approaching reason.

It will be interested to see how the market holds once the economy does begin improving.  While I secretly hope that we can gradually move into a production, rather than speculative, market model, the specualtive market is far more lucrative (if not as sustainable).