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Kevin and Sue King
29400 SW Heater Road
Sherwood, OR 97140
503-799-6941
sue@bigtimberalpacas.com
bigtimberalpacas.com

Big Timber Alpacas resides among the tall firs on Parrett Mountain near Sherwood, Oregon, about 25 miles southwest of Portland. We love working with both experienced and new breeders located inside and outside the US to provide them the best alpacas to suit their needs.
Our breeding program focuses on proven elite white and color genetics to produce champion alpaca bloodlines. Our mission is to produce the highest quality alpaca seed stock: conformationally correct and healthy; uniform, dense and finely fibered, good-natured alpacas. We are proud that 100% of our white foundation herd has Top 1%- 5% rankings in the 2021 EPDs. In addition, 100% of our color herd including blacks and browns has at least Top 25% EPD rankings. We believe in using quantitative data tools, including histograms, EPDs and skin biopsies, to measure the success of our breeding program and improve our seed stock with every generation. We shear and test all our alpacas every year, including Suri juveniles, to accurately assess annual fiber trait progress and to utilize the fiber in our products. We use the Suri Network S.H.I.P tool to independently evaluate our Suri alpacas by outside experts. Data-driven breeding decisions ensure quality results and drive our breeding program advancements.

Big Timber alpacas compete in top national shows winning championships, judges choice awards and “Advanced Fleece” awards. We are honored to be the recipient of the 2020 AOA Light Suri Male Supreme Champion, the 2019 AOA Heirloom Breeder Cup and 2019 Suri Network Diamond Breeder Cup Awards, and the 2018 Futurity Reserve Suri Small Breeder Award.

BIG TIMBER ALPACAS: ELITE GENETICS, EXCEPTIONAL ALPACAS!

Anthony Stachowski DVM
PO Box 828
Mantua, OH
(330) 697-3942
sa@alpacaworld.com
alpacaworld.com

In February 1984, Stachowski Alpacas purchased 25 alpacas in Catskills New York from the very first importation. Anthony was one of the founding fathers of the breed registry and show association. He insisted that age and sex classes be divided by COLOR. For over 38 years, Champions of all colors are found in the 100’s of rolling acres at Stachowski Alpacas.

In 1995 Mary and I joined the Peruvian Importers in selecting “the best of the best” from cooperatives in the highlands of Peru including Alianza, Accoyo, Sollocota and others. Detailed notes taken on each alpaca selected are now found on Openherd. Thousands of alpacas were evaluated each year (P3, P4, P5, P6 and CP1). Imports exhibited exceptional traits of fineness, density, uniformity, and character which catapulted my herd in the show ring and breeding barn. Stachowski Alpacas grew into a marketing powerhouse with the Peruvian Classic Alpaca Sale held each October.

Anthony also holds veterinary seminars across the country for private farms and associations including the popular “What you can do without the Vet.” These seminars include blood draw, dentistry, injection techniques, ultrasonography, foot care, skin issues, and much more!

Today Stachowski Alpacas continues to show and breed approximately 300 alpacas to banner winners. For 38 years Stachowski Alpacas motto “Your Success is Our Success” offers new and fellow breeders proven quality genetics, veterinary guidance, and nutritional support. We welcome visits to our farm in Mantua, Ohio, and inquiries to our website at sa@alpacaworld.com and sales listing on Openherd.

Marc & Sharon Milligan
1021 Red Granite Ranch Road
Livermore, CO 80536
(303) 906-4279
rgralpacas@hughes.net
RedGraniteRanch.com

Red Granite Ranch is located in beautiful Northern Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains on rolling hills of prairie grassland.

From the very beginning we began making purchases and breeding decisions that would allow us to build a herd of elite alpacas. We wanted alpacas that would pass on to their offspring good health, superior conformation, lasting fineness, density and uniformity in their fleece.

We are preparing our herd not only to be competitive in the show ring but profitable in the developing fiber market. Our goal is excellence and herd advancement with every breeding decision we make.

We have had the honor of being awarded the 2010 Futurity Small Breeder of the Year, 2012 Futurity Reserve Medium Breeder of the Year, and the 2015, 2016, and 2019 Reserve Large Breeder of the Year. We provide seed stock for sale, agisting, as well as top of the line “Proven” Herdsires in every color

Ray & Candy McMahan
1897 Ashland Road
Ruffin, NC 27326
(336) 707-4352
mgbcandy@aol.com
raynayalpacas.com

Raynay Alpaca Farm began their journey in 2008. Wow, what a ride it has been! We love surrounding ourselves with the beauty of farm living and raising these wonderful suri alpacas. We are located in Caswell County, NC and our farm consists of 100 acres and around 70 alpacas that includes some agistors. We also have a farm store on the property and a bed and breakfast.

Our greatest accomplishment to date is having one of our bred and owned males crowned as a 2x Supreme National Champion Suri Light, Electrofye’s Cosmic Dust (now owned by Midnight Moon Suris). Our vision is to cross our Electrofyre lines with our newly acquired herdsire from the West Coast, Eldora’s Tempo by Rockstar (co-owned with 2 Point and Sie Sutter). As the industry evolves, Raynay evolves in hopes of breeding top-notch suri alpacas that would make any alpaca owner proud, huacaya too!!

We have made some wonderful friends throughout the industry and can’t imagine life without these bonds. Our motto IS the GOLDEN RULE. You can bank on our word, and our alpacas! Ray and Candy McMahan.

Bob Figular & Lisa Collura
Hopewell Township
Lambertville, NJ 08530
(609) 902-3551
info@memorymacres.com
memorymacres.com

Memory M-Acres Farm is located in the New Jersey countryside on approximately 10 acres and is owned and operated by Lisa Collura and Bob Figular.

When we originally came into this industry in 2012, the choice was mostly based on what we considered to be quality of life considerations. Looking back on that decision, we could not have been more right! Whether standing in the ring waiting for a Judge to make their final decision or watching a child see an alpaca for the first time, the feeling we get is indescribable. Raising, breeding, and showing our animals has brought such joy into our lives.

When making breeding decisions, we utilize SHIP scores, Histograms, Biopsies, and Show Results. Using a combination of science and experience, we continually strive to improve our herd.

While working with some of the country’s top farms, our foundation females were carefully selected and have produced multiple Supreme Champions and Judges’ Choice awards.

In 2019 we purchased 100% ownership of MMALP Goldstar’s Vader, GLR Picasso, and a Herdsire prospect National Supreme Champion RDE’s Maserati Limited Edition.

Although our Herdsires are closed, we have several yearlings and bred females available for the discerning buyer.

Memory M-Acres Farm – Making memories, one alpaca at a time

Faye & Jeff Farley
4195 Abbeyville Road
Medina, OH 44256
(330) 241-0977
faye@majesticmeadowsalpacas.com
MajesticMeadowsAlpacas.com

Majestic Meadows Alpacas & Boutique is a family-owned and operated business located in Medina, OH on approximately 20 acres. Our love for animals and desire for an investment the whole family could enjoy prompted us to look into the investment potential of raising alpacas and we’ve never looked back!

In 1994 we purchased our first alpaca and since then we’ve included numerous champion-winning and champion-producing alpacas. The alpaca business is everything we ever wanted in a family business allowing us time for family life and time to create a wonderful family business we can all be a part of. We’re proud to say our selective breeding program has blessed us with multiple champion winning and ribbon winning alpacas.

Our goal from the outset has been to be the best we can in both quality of alpacas we produce, sell and raise and in the service we provide. Maintaining that high standard has given us the advantage of producing multiple award-winning alpacas and the opportunity to meet and build life-long friendships with alpaca breeders from across the U.S. We’ve had many successes in the alpaca business over the years and credit much of our success to our wonderful beginning and continued goal to breed and raise the best alpacas.

There truly is no other business we could have ventured into that would have given us the best of both worlds, time for our family and life-long friendships we’ve forged in this business, and the opportunity to start and create a successful business on our own.

Russell Ratti & Karen Ball
26 Bench Road
Whitehall, MT 59759
(530) 559-7223
heartandsoulalpacas@gmail.com
HeartandSoulAlpacas.com

Heart & Soul Ranch is located in the heart of the big sky country in Silver Star, Montana.

Honesty and Integrity are at the heart of our business. We offer only products and animals that we are proud to carry our name.

We have been in the alpaca business since 2002 and have worked diligently to pick our breeding stock from only the top genetic lines coming from all over the United States. We raise both Suri & Huacaya alpacas.

Our Huacaya focus and passion is impeccable fiber in gray. We have worked hard since 2007 in Achieving Grayteness in gray! Our Suri focus and passion is fineness, handle and luster in light colors in order to be able to dye our unique suri fabric. Our goal is that with each generation we are improving in the traits we breed for, solid conformation, soft handling uniform fiber and lasting fineness. We put our Heart & Soul into this lifestyle we call amazing!

We love what we do and love to share it with others. Mentoring new breeders is something we are very passionate about as we believe getting the right start makes a huge difference. The measure of our success is in the success of our clients and we do everything we can to make that happen.

Britt & Patty Hasselbring
29049 Davis Road
Concordia, MO 64020
(816) 769-3939
hasselbringsharmonyranch.com
facebook.com/harmonyranch

We fell in love with the living art that is the Suri alpaca, and today we share a farm with over 100 Suris in Concordia, Missouri. We are surrounded by the grace and beauty of Suri alpacas. We make breeding decisions carefully, using top stud males and females who have the characteristics to continue improvement of the Suri breed. We don’t want to just breed. We want to improve. Every year. We gather data from a variety of sources to help us make breeding decisions.

• Each year we have fiber samples analyzed from our animals to determine fineness, consistency, and comfort factor.
• We have our herd classified in the Suri Herd Improvement Program (SHIP) every three years or so and use information from that classification to identify strengths and weaknesses of each animal.
• We participate in the Alpaca Owners Association EPD program, so are able to see how our animals rank amid others in the country in various fiber characteristics.
• Finally, we show our animals at alpaca shows to see how they stack up to other high-quality alpacas and get feedback from alpaca judges.

We breed and sell animals, both to those who already have alpacas and to those who are just starting out on their alpaca journey. We specialize is helping new farms start up. We provide education to introduce newcomers to alpacas, consult in farm set-up and herd management activities. We work with prospective owners to define their goals, select alpacas to match their goals, and then provide ongoing consulting and mentoring.

While breeding and selling animals is our primary focus, we also provide a variety of agritourism services, including tours, bringing alpacas to weddings and other events, and special appearances at nursing homes, senior centers, and schools. We sell manure, both composted and raw, to farmers and gardeners in our area as well.

Laurie McCallum & Dillon Hoffman
69401 Goodrich Rd
Sisters, OR 97759
(541) 504-3149
HappyHoundsRanch@yahoo.com
happyhoundsranch.com

Happy Hounds Alpaca Ranch is located in beautiful Central Oregon surrounded by numerous mountain peaks and vast irrigated hay fields. Owned and operated by Laurie McCallum and Dillon Hoffman, H2R was started in 2010 on a small ranch in eastern Colorado. We quickly outgrew this property and decided an upgrade was in order. In 2013 we made the move to a sprawling 480-acre property in Sisters, Oregon that includes 360 acres of irrigated hay/pasture ground.

Our goal from the beginning was to acquire an elite group of top-quality dams and breed those to the best herdsires we could find that exemplify incredible phenotype while pairing impressive fleece qualities. We also focus on providing the highest quality nutrition possible in order to grow big, happy, healthy alpacas, all while maintaining these excellent fiber traits. Our herd has grown to slightly more than 100 alpacas, and we welcome you to visit and discuss how our breeding philosophy and animal husbandry has created excellence across our entire herd.

Jessica & Zachary Hackett
25645 Cheryl Dr.
West Linn, OR 97068
(402) 363-8890
haloranchalpacas@gmail.com
haloalpacas.com

Halo Ranch Alpacas is located at the end of the Oregon Trail in the beautiful Oregon City countryside. Since its inception in 2012, our mission has been to produce the highest quality suri alpacas in the United States. The ranch is managed by Zach Hackett and his wife Jessica, who has over 13 years of experience working with some of the largest alpaca farms in the country. Her experience has been vital in our maturation as an alpaca farm, and we continue to improve the quality of our herd year after year. We were able to acquire one of the most prestigious alpaca herds in the United States — Great Lakes Ranch. This addition doubled our herd size and we jumped light years ahead of our breeding goals. We’ve been fortunate enough to win the Futurity Breeder of the Year for medium size farms for the last three years. Not only do we strive to be competitive in the show ring, but we also endeavor to use every available resource the alpacas give us. On a daily basis we collect manure, compost it, and then use it not only on our own farm, but sell it as fertilizer to various agricultural companies as well. We also harvest and process our fiber to turn into yarn, fabric and hypoallergenic clothing items. We take pride in and look forward to assisting new and experienced alpaca farmers achieve their breeding goals, and are excited about the future of the alpaca industry. Please let us know if you have any questions.

We’d love to hear from you! www.haloalpacas.com.