Agistment

Fancy Fiber Farm has plenty of field and barn space to board your precious alpacas when you can't, for any reason. Feel free to start your investing in alpacas now and allow us to care for your animals. We provide loving care, feeding, nail trimming, vaccinations, and quarterly de-worming for the low price of $3.00 per day, per alpaca. For additional charges, we can also train your animals. Any non-routine procedures are extra. Insurance or waiver of insurance is required.
Email Us: Alpacas

Shearing

Below you can find our shearing schedule. As farms schedule with us, this will be updated. Right now you can see when our open dates are and pick your preferred time. Pick early so you get what works best for you!

Contact Us to schedule your shearing date.

Below you will find a brief overview of our 2008 Shearing rates. To review the full rates and other information, please download our Shearing Information Guide in PDF format. (Requires a PDF reader.)

2008 RATES

Cut Options Available:

$20 Barrel Cut           - Blanket Only
$25 Lion Cut             - Blanket, Neck and Upper Thighs
$30 Clean Cut           - Complete Body Nude (leaves top knot & tail)
$35 Show Cut           - Smoothing, Tapering of legs, Top Knot & Tail
$40 Special Request  - Special Cuts or Patterns

• Cria Shearing Available.

$8 DISCOUNT - Cria between 3-6 months
$5 DISCOUNT - Weanling between 7-12 months

Travel Costs:

$50 Set-up fee - Within 30 miles of FFF
$.30/mile Travel Cost - Added outside 30 miles, up to 100 miles from FFF

• Extended Travel Options Available.

Other Options Available:

$5  Toenails                - While on table
$10 Dust Blowing       - Cleaning out debris from fleece
$3  Drop Off Charge  - Per Day - Per Alpaca.
$5 Photography          - Before and After Shearing (e-mailed directly to you)
$2 Fiber Bags Each    - Special Air-Flow, Easy Travel with Handle.

Shearing At FFF Provides

• Alpaca Size Option   - Recorded Weight, Height and Ground clearance.
• Fiber weight options - Animal Name, Date and Weight Added to Bag.
• Bagging options       - Free 3 Clear Plastic Fiber Bags Provided per Alpaca.
• Results provided      - Recorded print-out of services and results provided.
• Histogram Sample   - Your Alpacas Sample in bag properly marked.

Training

We here at Fancy Fiber Farm believe that all alpacas should be trained from a very young age. This training does not have to be the full blown obstacle and public relations training that some of our animals get, but the animals should be trained at the very least to lead nicely on a halter and pick up their feet for toenails. We can train your animals for you while they are here at out farm, our we can make arrangements to visit your farm on a regular basis to conduct this training. The training at our location takes less time because we can generally train more days per week here than at your farm.

We use methods from Camelid Dynamics and the Mallon method combined with our own learned methods, to work out a program that will work best with any individual alpaca.

Please contact us for specific information on your special needs case and we can work something out.

Email Us: Alpacas
or
Call us: 360-263-3668

Breeding

We have breeding studs available, contact us for more information.

Alpaca Sitting

Trust a breeder to take care of your alpacas while you are away. We will monitor your animals as much or as little as you would like.

Fancy Fiber Fotography

Meet Dayna, a 15 year old high school student in Washington State. She has been enjoying photography for about 3 years now and has a genuine love for animals and nature.

She has been raising alpacas and belongs to 4H, where she's learning to handle and present the alpacas at their best. She has started to enter her photography at both the county and state levels, and has received numerous blue ribbons.

Dayna would like to better her skills and practice new ideas and styles of photography. What better subjects then the alpacas we all love, and what better way for you to help a young 4H & photography student grow and learn in the industry. As well as receive the photos for your farm and pet needs.

She can take pictures of your entire herd for records, pictures of your top Herdsires for advertisement, prized females for sale or adorable cria to send to family! You select the animals, you decide their use! She'll get you the shot!

Do you need shots of your farm? The barn, stalls or fields? Shots of your shearing process, hire her for shearing day to do all your before and after shots! Do you have a training program or other farm services, she can do that too!

As Dayna is a beginning artist and student, her cost is kept to a minimum to expand her opportunities for multiple clients. Take some time to look at her other photography and if you're interested in her services she will be glad to answer your questions and schedule a shoot.

Details:

Photos will be posted on a web site within 48 hrs after the shoot for your selection. Many photos of each animal selected will be taken, you need only purchase the pictures you select from those taken. If the photos are needed sooner, other arrangements can be made prior to the farm visit.

Photography: All digital
Camera: Sony Mavica -MVC-FD97
Accessories: Tri-pod
Style: Natural or Staged Setting
Editing: B&W, Soft Touch, Corrections, Cutting out distraction, just to name a few.
Hard Copy: Photos can be put on CD for your needs
Print Sheets: 1- 8x10, 2- 5x7, 2- 4x6, 3- 3.5x5, 4- 3x4 or 9- 2.5x3.25

Price:

Set up fee: $10 per hour / 2 hr. Minimum
Travel: SW Washington / NW Oregon areas
Extended Travel: Available contact for more information
Cost per selected shot: $20
Editing: $5 per photo selected
Prints available: $10 per 8x11 standard sheet
Hard Copies: $20 (CD)

Download this information as a PDF document.
View samples of Dayna's Photography.