Alpacas - Fantasy Farms - Alpacas for Sale

to Fantasy Farms. We wish that we could be personally showing you around our alpaca farm right now - introducing you to our great alpaca herd sires, pointing out our foundation alpaca ladies and some of their wonderful alpaca children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, as well as, just plain talking about alpacas. That not being possible, we invite you to browse our web pages and then arrange to visit these wonderful creatures in scenic Central Oregon.

If you are new to alpacas or would like to know more about alpacas and alpaca husbandry, About Alpacas is included especially for you. About Us tells about our alpaca breeding program, and you will find many beautiful alpacas available on our Alpaca Sales Lists. We will be regularly updating with new Featured Alpaca stories, Alpaca Husbandry Tips and Specials, so be sure to bookmark this site.

OUR HISTORY WITH ALPACAS

goes back to 1985 when we were mesmerized by a photo of a Peruvian boy hugging an alpaca and began our search to learn more about alpacas. At that time, there was extremely little published on alpacas and few alpacas could be found outside of South America. Our first alpaca purchases were two darling, young alpaca crias selected on the basis of their structure, fiber and type and the overall excellence of their dams. (At that time few alpacas had known sires.) When they were old enough to be weaned, "Shanney" and "Maya" joined three other alpacas, 20-odd Morgan horses and a flock of sheep at Fantasy Farms Alpacas original location in Northern California. Over the course of the next two years alpacas totally replaced the sheep at Fantasy Farms and owner Susan Stackhouse left a career in animal health and Ag R & D to concentrate on her growing herd of alpacas. With so much to be learned about alpacas, it was an exciting time for a person of her experience. Susan busied herself with her alpacas and the infant alpaca industry. She was a principal in the original Alpaca Committee of the International Llama Association and the first vice president of the Alpacas Owners and Breeders Association (AOBA). She wrote the original constitution for AOBA, contributed to the industry's first news letter Alpacas!, and worked with Eric Hoffman in designing the Alpaca Registry. After the registry was adopted by alpaca owners, Susan became the registry's first chairperson and pushed for increasingly stringent standards in screening and the registry itself.

In the summer of 1993, Susan moved with her herd of 65 alpacas to 26 acres on the Deschutes River in Central Oregon arriving just as gates were being hung on the first set of alpaca pens. It would be weeks without power or running water and months until there were houses for alpacas and people while the juniper and sage site was transformed into an alpaca farm designed for ease of handling and minimal stress to alpacas. We have now enjoyed 13 years and 13 crops of alpaca crias in Central Oregon. New alpacas have joined the herd bringing with them new bloodlines while many of our alpacas have found new homes across the nation. We remain pleased with our original decision to own and breed alpacas and go into the 21st century espousing life with alpacas.