Not only will you gain knowledge about keeping alpacas through every stage of their lives, you’ll also be able to create a happy, healthy home for your alpaca herd and avoid the classic mistakes that prohibit many alpaca owners from living the lifestyle they want.
With advice and real-world experience, this must have alpaca book provides the following chapters:
- Introduction: Raising Alpacas for Fun, Love, and Profit
- Is the Alpaca Lifestyle Right for You and Your Farm?
- Top Considerations and Decision Points
- Steps for Starting an Alpaca Business
- Visiting Farms and Finding a Mentor
- Creating the Ideal Farm Setup and Infrastructure
- Beginner’s Guide to Purchasing a Starter Alpaca Herd
- Understanding and Influencing Alpaca Behavior
- Taking Care of Medical Issues and Herd Health
- Diving into Fiber Characteristics and Color Genotyping
- Options and Techniques for Breeding Alpacas
- Delivering Healthy and Happy Cria
- What to Know About Alpaca Shearing
- Maximize Your Profits from Fiber
- Setting Up a Farm Store and Agritourism
- Involving the Youth
- Selling Alpacas
- Marketing Your Farm in a Digital World
- Afterword
- Suggested Resources
- Index
Each chapter includes educational information, as well as stories that tie this information to real-world experiences.
Additional details:
- Book title: The Alpaca Handbook: The Complete Guide to Raising a Happy and Healthy Herd
- Author: Rebecca Gill
- Edition: First edition
- Format: Paperback
- Print length: 248
- Language: English
- Weight: 1.11 pounds
- Dimensions: 7″ x 9″
- Published date: March 3, 2026
- Publisher: Lyons Press (The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, Inc.)
- ISBN-10: 1493092278
- ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-9227-7
- UNSPSC-Code: 55101500 (Printed publications)
About the author:
Rebecca Gill is an alpaca farmer who lives on just outside of Traverse City, Michigan. In 2018, she and her husband Jason left the suburban life of metro Detroit, sold everything they owned, and moved north to start an alpaca farm. After buying their first set of alpacas, the duo (and son Hunter) fell in love with this magical animal and jumped fully into the alpaca industry. Cotton Creek Farms is now an active alpaca farm that offers breedings, alpacas for sale, interactive tours, manufacturers alpaca products, sells alpaca goods through their online and onsite farm store, offers color genotype consulting, as well as, provides education and mentoring to new farms and those interested in raising alpacas.
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