http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com Alpaca blog and specials on products. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:08:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the products that we have found very popular from our stand at Ashcombe's has been the alpaca ski hat.  They sell for $16 and are very soft and warm.  The alpaca ski hats are also very colorful.  I don't know that I've seen two of the alpaca ski ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/11/03/alpaca-ski-hat/ Today was a beautiful fall day.  Hopefully next week will be as nice for our open house.  We did take the opportunity to do some work outside around the farm. We also visited another alpaca farms open house at Eastland Alpacas. The final version of the post card has finally hit ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/11/01/big-rock-alpaca-farm-open-house-one-week-and-counting/   We finally got our second cutting of orchard grass hay made for the alpacas.  Rick from Rick's Custom Baling went all out again to get it down for us, and he did an excellent job.  There are some weeds in the hay bales but the alpacas will just eat around ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/10/30/orchard-grass-hay-available/   We've just completed our second Saturday at Ashcombe's this weekend.  It's been wonderful.  We've gotten to meet lots of nice people.  And the kids really love seeing the alpacas. We will be there for one more weekend, weather permitting.  After that we'll have a weekend off before our open house ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/10/19/ashcombes-fall-harvest/   With all the turmoil in the stock markets people are looking for alternative locations for their money, and alpacas are making the cut.  The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article relating the investment potential of alpacas to investing in gold.  There are some similarities in respect to investment ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/10/13/alpacas-in-the-wall-street-journal/   Well it was a long day and we weren't sure how it was going to go, but it turned out to be a pretty good day.  Friday, yesterday, was quite rainy so we didn't setup Friday evening.  This morning the boys and I went in around 6:30 to set ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/09/13/east-berlin-colonial-day-was-a-great-success/ One of the things we've been working on in preperations for East Berlin Colonial Day is our open house flyer.  We'd like to be able to give these outs to all the great people we'll be seeing at Colonial Day.  We'll also be mail them out to our mailing list ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/09/08/lots-of-work-going-on-in-perperation-for-colonial-day/   We sure are glad Colonial Day wasn't today.  Tropical storm Hanna has been dumping rain on the farm for most of the day, which would make for nasty weather had we been setup at Colonial Day.   We did put Snowfox & Rose with their crias into a new pasture ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/09/06/preparing-for-east-berlin-colonial-day/ Rose finally had her cria.  A nice little boy.  He was actually larger than Gaston at birth.  He looks to be about a medium brown.    Now we need to come up with another cria name. http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/09/02/another-new-arrival/ Come out to see us at one of the many events we will be attending this fall: Sept 13, 2008 - East Berlin Colonial Day, we will again be on the grass near the post office and food vendors.  Come pick up some alpaca socks for winter.  Sorry, no alpaca will ... http://www.bigrockalpacafarm.com/index.php/2008/08/29/2008-fall-events/