Big Rock Alpaca Farm

If you’ve picked up one of our open house cards for this year you’ll find that I forgot to put one small detail on the card.  Our ADDRESS!  Well you found the right place, our address is:

186 Big Rock Road

East Berlin, PA  17316

At least you got a neat picture of one of our alpaca.  Don’t forget to bring the card along to get your 10% off a store item or an alpaca.  We’ll let you keep the card.

More details of the open house available on our events page.

The next version of the cards will have the address on.

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Our latest addition was added to the herd today!

Snowfox had the cutest little girl cria today.  She’s medium to dark brown with two white socks on the front feet and a white stripe across her forward.

We have not selected a name yet.  Any one that sponsors her before she’s named will be given the opportunity to help name her.

Sponsor our new baby alpaca

This is the perfect time to try out our Sponsor an Alpaca program.  Right now this post is the only way this new baby alpaca can be sponsored.  Once she’s named she’ll be added to the sponsor an alpaca page.

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Here are some resources pertaining to keeping chickens, guineas and other fowl on a small farm.

How to build a chicken tractor is an article I wrote on building a chicken tractor.

Books on Amazon (affiliate links):

Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil

Gardening with Guineas: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Guinea Fowl on a Small Scale

Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition

Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind,  I haven’t read this one but I read The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book) also by Gene Logsdon and it was very good.

There are many good resources available.  I own the first three of these books and feel comfortable recommending them to any first time chicken or guinea owner.

This list was first publishes as a resource for a talk I’m giving on keeping chickens and guineas on an alpaca farm at Brown’s Orchard while we’re there for our Alpaca Valentines. Here is a link to outline I used for the talk on Farm Fowl.

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We are only planning to do one alpaca show this spring and that show is the PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase in York, PA.  It is being held May 8th & 9th 2010 in the Toyota Arena at the York Fairgrounds.  We chose this show because it is close to our farm and we can meet more local people interested in alpacas.

We are planning to take Gaston and Belle, and with them being from the same dam we entered Snowfox in the Produce of Dam class.  We missed an opportunity a couple years ago to enter a Product of Dam class because we thought it took three offspring, like the Get of Sire class, but it only takes two.  As I’m writing this I’m thinking I could have entered Gaston in the Bred and owned yearly class.  I’ll have to see if I can get him in the class.

If you come to the PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase be sure to stop by our stall and talk to us.

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? Well it’s all over!? At least for us, I’m writing this post at 8:00 PM Sunday evening, having left at around 4:00 PM.? There were still a lot of classes left to go and some people thought it could be going on until 8:00 or 9:00 in the evening.? I sure hope they got it all wrapped up.? Because of a bunch of other stuff going on at the moment this was the first year in several that I haven’t volunteered to help setup and/or tear down.? I just want to thank all those that did volunteer, I know there’s a lot of work involved.

And as promised here is the picture of the boys with Dakari and their ribbons.? Way to go guys!

Dakari with Josh and Jake with ribbons

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