Learn About Alpaca Farm Alpacas

The Strawberry Hill Alpaca Farm in Pennsylvania was started on farm land that had previously been a pick your own strawberry farm, thus the name.

It is a peaceful setting for alpacas to graze in the pastures that had once held row upon row of strawberry plants. Once the strawberry business was retired, those fields were eventually turned back into pasture and then replanted with alpaca-friendly plants before the alpaca business went into action.

This farm chose to purchase alpacas of many different colors, so that they could offer alpaca yarn of various colors made from the fleece of those animals. They have white, black, gray, brown, and fawn colored alpacas. See an example of yarn made from their alpacas.

The photo on the right above shows a newborn alpaca, 1 hour old, standing amidst a group of female alpacas, including the newborn's mother. You can click on that photo to go to the page on their site where you can see the larger image.

Note: Photo used with permission.

The Strawberry Hill Alpacas farm has a number of alpacas for sale. If you are looking to buy an alpaca, see their Alpacas For Sale listing page.

They have quality alpacas, with full or partial Peruvian heritage. The description page for each alpaca lists links to the ARI Certificate, Histogram, Lineage Chart for each animal and lists vital statistics pertaining to that alpaca.

The photo on the right shows Akida, an alpaca that is for sale by the Strawberry Hill Alpacas farm. You can click on that photo to see a larger picture of Akida, along with info about this alpaca and links to more pictures of her.

Note: Photo used with permission.

The Strawberry Hiil Alpaca farm has a free newsletter that you can get by email. The farm manager tells some of the fun and interesting facts about their animals and you can even be one of the first to know when a new baby alpaca arrives on the farm. Each animal has been named and with this free newsletter, you can begin to get to know the different animals a bit with the photos and the personality that each one shows, that is written about in the newsletters and on the web site.

To sign up for this free newsletter, go to their home page and then, in the right-hand side column, type your first name and your email address in the form there (looks similar to the image shown here on the right above).

Be sure to look for the confirmation email right away after you sign up because there is a limited time to confirm (and if you don't click the confirm link in that confirmation email, you will never get the newsletters and your signup will auto-delete after a number of days; this is to prevent spam signups, clicking the confirm link shows you are a real person requesting the free newsletter for your own email address).

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