About Underwood Alpacas

Dale and I both grew up in Wyoming. Two avid animal lovers, we had raised or owned large and small creatures of all kinds.

One day in 2004, on a lark, we stopped at an alpaca farm to see a creature we were unfamiliar with. We were impressed with how easy they were to raise and left smitten with the soulful-eyed, gentle creatures.

Four months later we had sold our house in White Salmon, WA and moved just a few miles west down the Columbia River, across from Hood River, OR to a small acreage near Underwood.

With majestic Mt. Adams in the distance, we jumped into alpaca farming with a post hole digger in one hand and a paint brush to fix up the house in the other. We've never looked back. Our lives have become happily immersed in these animals and all the directions owning them have taken us.

We now have a herd of around twenty that fluctuates as we sell, cria are born and we find one we "can't live without" that would improve the quality of our herd. Our original dams have produced consistently healthy cria that, with planned solid breeding practices, have produced improved offspring. We now have a Hemmingway Hemi-Accoyo fawn stud to offer re-breeds to. And one of our first boys, a fine black, became a breeding stud this year. Our first cria born on the farm, Sweet Wonder, has become our PR Gelding and attends many events to promote our farm and the industry. He knows he's an alpaca, but loves people and many have stopped at the farm to just get a "Wonder Kiss".

We know we are in a special business, a special place in our lives that alpacas have made possible for us. We welcome farm visits from the just curious to people who are looking at the lifestyle that has brought us so many smiles and wonderful people into our lives.

Our bay black stud, Hershey's Kiss With Nuts (Pictured), had his first daughter less than two weeks ago. We are thrilled with his first progeny.

Annie, one of our featured dams, will be delivering his second cria in early October.

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Feel free to contact us by phone or e-mail.
509-493-2981
rdwhite@gorge.net
www.underwoodalpacas.com

Anik attending to her newborn cria. Plenty there for this year's little girl.

"I just arrived, give me a moment and then introduce yourselves!"

'Ultimate Mama' hovering over her newborn while other future mamas show their interest.