Going GREEN with alpacas

To some, green is the color of money. To others, green is an environmentally responsible lifestyle. To us, it's both.

Alpacas offer significant profit potential through herd growth, services such as breeding and boarding, and, of course, the production of naturally organic fiber with little impact to the earth for the environmentally responsible farmer.

Alpacas
as an
investment

When you put your money in a savings account or other investment, you expect a periodic return of interest or dividends. When reinvested, your return is compounded. The same is true for growing an alpaca business. Your dividends are the babies (crias) born yearly, and your dividend is compounded when the crias mature to breeding status and provide dividends of their own!

Raising alpacas offers the farmer some very attractive tax advantages. When raising alpacas for profit, all the expenses attributable to the endeavor can be written off against your income. Expenses include not only feed, veterinarian care, etc., but depreciation of tangible property such as breeding stock, barns and fences, all of which can help shelter current cash flow from tax.

Alpacas
for the
green
farmer

Alpacas seem to have been designed for green farmer! They are lightweight and have padded feet which will not damage a delicate landscape. With no upper teeth, they gently nibble tender grass rather than pulling it out by the roots. Because they evolved in harsh conditions, they utilize their food efficiently, surviving well on different kinds of low protein hay or pasture grass.

A group of alpacas leave their droppings in a communal area. The pelletized droppings are easily scooped up and repurposed as organic fertilizer.

Best of all, alpacas produce a yearly crop of naturally organic fiber without need for chemicals, insecticides or fertilizers!