The genetic improvement of alpaca fibre has emerged as a vital discipline at the crossroads of animal breeding and textile innovation. Research in this field seeks to elucidate the genetic ...

Out on the plains north of Coeur d’Alene, a quiet revolution in ranching is taking place. On the land once cleared for huge cattle herds, owners with small plots have turned to breeding alpacas.

EUGENE, Ore. - “Heeeeeeere ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca, heeeeere ‘paca ‘paaaaaaca,” Robbin Freedman calls out to a herd of around 50 grazing alpaca. Many of the three-foot tall four-legged animals ...

Two weeks before Ian Lutz and Jennifer Croft graduated from Woodstock Union High School, they did what many seniors do — they randomly hooked up. “It was just a fling,” Lutz recalls. But the ...

Area farms will be open to show off animals for National Alpaca Farm Days. Patrick DiGirolamo, owner of Falls Edge Farm in Benton, holds Apollo, a female alpaca that was born Sept 18. Clark Van ...

These are some of the starving alpacas being cared for at OSU's College of Veterinary Medicine in Corvallis after being seized from a breeding ranch by Polk County Sheriff's Office. Deputies say about ...

If things go as planned by La Cañada Flintridge investor Dr. Sandra Wallace, there will be a run on shoulder-high, two-toed, furry camelids. “This is a business,” said Wallace, a neurologist who owns ...

The view unfolds in layers — blue sky into bluer islands, the Santa Barbara Channel, a glimpse of Carpinteria behind a wall of oak trees and, finally, alpacas. It is a view Carol-Anne Lonson wakes up ...