Alpacas at Laurel Farm
Tytherleigh, Axminster, Devon EX13 7BE
Tel: 01460 220763
Mobile: 07919 486228
Here at Laurel Farm Alpaca Breeders we offer a down to earth approach to keeping these fascinating animals. We can answer all your questions, and share our experience of setting up and starting out in the industry. We offer as much after sales help and back up as you feel you need and if you do not have your own land we can keep your alpacas here until you are ready to take them, or permanently as some clients prefer.
Phone Mike or Geraldine Thomas or email us with any queries or to arrange a farm visit.
We are constantly improving the quality of our herd through our own breeding programme enhanced by outside blood lines and are particularly interested in keeping the wonderful variety of colour, which distinguishes the alpaca. We have a herd of over fifty alpacas and are able to offer customers a very good selection of affordable attractive alpacas for sale—some of which are featured on our sales page but it is well worth coming to visit us or phoning for a chat so we can discuss your best options which may include alpacas not advertised.
There are many different reasons for keeping alpacas—for fleece production, breeding or simply as attractive field pets/lawn mowers. Pregnant alpaca females, young females, young intact males and wethers are always available at Laurel Farm. All the pregnant female alpacas we have for sale come with a live birth guarantee including free repeat mating if unsuccessful and half price re-mating to one of our males standing at stud in subsequent years.
Alpaca Information.Here at Laurel Farm Alpacas we are always happy to supply as much useful information as we can. See our Alpaca Information page which gives a short history of the alpaca together with a summary of the current state of the alpaca industry. We also supply Gina Bromage’s excellent Guide to the Management of Llamas and Alpacas, which we have found covers all the information which the new alpaca owner is likely to need. Click here to find out why Alpacas are so rewarding.
We have set up our paddocks in a pattern which enables us to move our alpacas around very easily and with minimum stress, with nearly every paddock being accessible from a central race. We are always happy for visitors to come and look at our layout, and will visit your land to advise you how to set up. We can also let you have photos, drawings and specifications of our special and very successful alpaca field shelters.
Alpaca wool and garments made from our own very fine alpaca wool are available at Laurel Farm. in our farm shop and online. Our alpacas are sheared once a year and we keep some of the fleece for sale direct to hand spinners and the rest is sent to be spun into high quality knitting wool. Many holiday makers and locals love to come to the farm to buy their wool, and we have a number of hand-knitters who design and knit for us, so that we have a selection of items for sale for visitors. We specialise in Aran Sweaters hand knitted from our 100% pure alpaca bred on the farm, but also have smaller items such as hats, snoods, and socks.
Alpaca Shows have become an important part of the Laurel Farm calender with an encouraging number of show successes. We have had two reserve champions, two champions and plenty of well placed entries at every show we have attended.
Following our success with alpaca wool and hand knitted products we are expanding our enterprise to include Angora Goats with the first breeding does and a prize winning buck arriving on farm November 2009. The first kids will be born in Spring 2010, some of them will be for sale as breeding stock or pets and others kept for their fantastic fleece qualities.
We are Alpaca Farmers on the Devon/Somerset border in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Situated on the Main A358 between Chard and Axminster with stunning views of the Devon countryside. Easy access from the M5 and A303.
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