Our Colorado Alpaca Farm

A photo journey with slideshow at the end...

Here are some photos of our Colorado Alpaca Farm—located in Penrose, CO and not too far from Cañon City, Colorado, home of the Royal Gorge. We love alpacas, and we'd like to show you our alpaca family.

Colorado alpaca farm

Alpacas have keen eyesight and great curiosity--they will often see something in the distance long before we do, and sometimes I think they just like the view.

Colorado alpacas

"Wow! This sure tastes better after they raked it up."

Gary Neher and Robin Neher with the alpacas on their farm in Penrose, Colorado.

We've been on our five-acre farm since 1998. We moved here to pursue our long held dream of country living and establishing an organic farm and retreat center. We purchased our first alpacas in October 2000, and though our farm had been set up for horses, we worked wildly to make adjustments for our herd of Huacaya alpacas. Our first nine alpacas, all purchased from Colorado farms, arrived a week before Christmas. Over the next six months, we continued bloodline research, and after attending a halter and fleece judges' training clinic, several alpaca shows, and more farms, we added five more animals selected from farms across the country. Now, our herd represents over twenty excellent huacaya bloodlines of Peruvian, Chilean, and Bolivian descent...

Mom and baby alpaca

Autumn with her first cria, Dance, and Auntie Rosie checking things out. The first birth on our farm occurred between our vigilant "cria watch" hours. When we arrived on the scene, Dance was up on all four toe-shoes with Mom and all the maiden midwives gathered 'round.

Evening pronk.

Gary (with "pasties") and Robin Neher at the Estes Park Wool Market, 2002

Colorado Alpaca Farm Slideshow

Here is a slideshow with more photos from our alpaca farm in Colorado...

It has been a busy and exciting time. We love the great adventure we're on, and we love our beautiful alpacas--they are a blessing and joy in our lives. They've taught us a lot and we're ready to learn more. So click a button or two and see why we love alpacas, but beware--they just might steal your heart too.

If you like what you see and learn here, we hope you will visit our alpaca farm and our lovely alpacas in person.