About Acapella Junction Alpacas

Alpacas are enchanting. We were impulsive and too eager to have our farm and alpacas, but we have never looked back with a single regret. Instead, they enrich our retirement and our lives.

When we first were looking into alpacas, I walked around an alpaca auction looking at all the classic grey Huacayas, knowing we wanted to get into alpacas, but at the time, someone had advised us that Huacayas were gentler and not to do Suris.

The auction started and I hadn't seen anything I was going to bid on, so I didn't register. Out came stately Charm, so well behaved and regal, and beside her was the cutest cria I have ever seen (please note, I adore my Suris and they are beautiful and adorable, but AVERY was just too stinking cute!) There was something about these two, both dam and 6 month old that grabbed me and I knew they were the ones I'd come to find.

I picked up my friend's bid card and bought them. We had already made arrangements for homes if we bought anything so that wasn't a problem. That is how we got into alpacas!

How we ended up raising Suris is further reading. Life just catches you up sometime. We knew we wanted a fiber farm of some kind 30 years ago. We loved our friend's alpacas (Suris) and when I took Avery to her first show, I walked around and realized I wanted to raise Suris so Charm, Avery and her soon-to-be-sister, Plum, were our start, but we went home from that show with stunning Roberto, who went back the next year as a previously shorn alpaca and won the Color Championship at CABO, then a level IV show. He was our start in Suris.

We have never looked back and regretted getting any of them!

We are not breeding much right now because the farm is about at capacity in terms of our ability to take care of everyone, not necessarily pasture space. We now have Electrofyre and some awesome herdsires that people would do well to take advantage of while we are on the East Coast.

We are getting older now and if our son moves to CO next year, we could be selling out and selling the farm. It's set up for alpacas now, but easily converted back to horses. So, if you read this and want a really beautiful, peaceful farm in a great quiet community near Charlotte, NC, contact us. We will consider an offer for the farm and for the herd. We hope to keep Avery and Plum forever however because they are pets to us now.

We lost our beloved Charm to cancer in Feb. 2013 the week before we took 9 alpacas (a lot for us to CABO.) We were told she was worth her weight in gold because she was a guardian alpaca and we loved to watch her watch her herd. We love all the alpacas we have as each one is such a unique personality and watering their undersides down is my favorite part of a summer day.

Each one has learned to step forward and most will turn around to have all four lower sides or tummy done on command. One will kiss my head if I forget to come back to her. She's smarter than I am! Alpacas are enchanting. We were impulsive and too eager to have our farm and alpacas, but we have never looked back with a single regret. Instead, they enrich our retirement and our lives.