Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Alpacas for sale

No no no. Not all of them. We never intended on keeping all 12. We want to have anywhere between 3 and 6...maybe 8. lol. We bought 12 with the intention of reselling some to offset the cost of the equipment, barn and alpacas. After the running of the alpacas, I went out to tell Mike that dinner was ready. I saw the neighbor lady who had helped us that evening and her husband peeking through the thick shrubs at the alpacas. They saw me see them and began to retreat back to their house. I waved at them inviting them to come over. They wanted to know what they were and what you could do with them. I summarized the alpaca trade for him, but let him know that these were just pet males, so there would be no breeding. We just don't have the time on our hands or the substantial out of pocket to purchase the pregnant females. They said that they had been looking for some animal to maintain the back of their property as they don't use it. At first they were just interested in opening the fence line and letting our animals graze back there, but then they were so taken by them that they said that they would like to consider buying two. Their boy, who looks about 10 really enjoyed them and had the alpacas eating out of his hand. We let him in to be near them and he got to pet a few of them. He really enjoyed them. The mother just wanted to do some research first. I'm sure she just wants to make sure that our price is not a rip off. Once she sees that our prices are excellent I'm sure they will be back. Yesterday I saw the husband out there looking like he was clearing a fence line.
I posted at ad that should begin to appear on Thursday. Its suppose to show up in all the local papers in 17 areas. We are considering perhaps selling alpaca pets as a business. Pets or for fiber. I cant believe how soft their fiber is. I'm going to call our tax advisor to see what incentives we could get on income and property taxes. Once everything is set up, it will all go so smoothly. It would be so much fun to have an alpaca pet ranch.