A 24-hour alpaca shearing event across the globe in Sydney, Australia, aims to have a big impact on mental health awareness and suicide prevention here in Montana. Over 500 alpacas will be sheared Nov ...

SEQUIM — If you’re looking for unique diversion this weekend, head up the hill from Sequim for a celebration of fiber at the fourth annual Dyefeltorspin at the Happy Valley Alpaca Ranch, 4629 Happy ...

BEECH ISLAND — Fleece was flying during Saturday's midday hours on Dixie Clay Road, with retired Marine John Tolley playing host to his annual alpaca shearing session. Tolley, whose operation is known ...

HOPEWELL -- The fleece is flying everywhere. Nathan Good, a professional sheep and alpaca shearer is moving his clippers back and forth down the side of a 3-year-old Suri alpaca named Copper Penny, ...

GALCHUTT, N.D. - Low hums rumble across the Ten Seven Acres alpaca farm here on a hot afternoon in early May. Dirk and Jessie Monson's herd of 15 alpacas and one llama, plus another group of nine from ...

Flaring her nostrils and spitting as the clippers glided across her back, Chaska, a gray alpaca, made it clear Monday that she did not find getting fleeced to be shear delight. Matt Fisher, a ...

Her morning included a pedicure, but for Zadie it was no day at the spa. Zadie is one of about 100 alpacas at Wild Hair Alpacas in Black Forest; the owners, Peter and Barbara Ziek, have been raising ...

Soft as cashmere, lighter than wool, alpaca fiber garments were once made only for ancient Incan royalty. “Alpacas were domesticated by the Incans 5,000 years ago; mummified remains of alpaca fiber ...