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Silver Thunder Alpacas presents:
Alpaca Links and Alpaca Friends

The first thing we tell everyone who asks about alpacas is to go and visit as many farms and ranches as possible. We cannot emphasize this enough. Every ranch is different and you will learn so much with each visit. Before you decide to get involved, you need to see what the options are. Talking to a lot of different people will get you the broadest picture of the alpaca industry and how it might best work for your situation.

With this in mind, start with the following link which will get you the addresses of farms near you. Once there, click on the map to search near your zip code. (The map is click-sensitive, so click carefully on your desired location within each state.)
AOBA Farm and Ranch Locator
 http://www.alpacainfo.com/fr_locator/index.asp
This list is from AOBA, The Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association. Note that it only includes ranches who have paid to be listed, so there are probably other alpaca ranches near you that do not show up here. (For instance, we at Silver Thunder Alpacas are not currently listed. And while we know of at least five alpaca farms in Greene County, only one is currently found on the Ranch Locator.)

Another place to find ranches is through regional breeder associations, of which there are many. Here are ranch finder pages for the associations that we belong to:

In East Tennessee: SEAA (or SealPaca)
South East Alpaca Association
http://www.sealpaca.org/

In Southern California: SoCalPaca
Southern California Alpaca Association
http://www.socalpaca.org/ranches.htm

Here is a list of ranches that were helpful to us in getting started in Southern California: (repeated from "Our Story" page)

Pacifica - John and Tina Malkus
http://www.alpacadelapacifica.com/scratch.htm (Great ranch setup page)
Critter Country - Cindy and Mark Mendiola
http://www.alpacacountry.com/
Four Seasons - Jeff & Marianne Bradley
http://www.4SeasonsAlpacas.com/
Rolling Thunder - Nancy and Jimmy Stepp
http://www.rollingthunderfarms.com/index.html
Alpacas del Valle Cereza (Cherry Valley) - Lisa Shimeld and Brad Johnson
http://www.cherryvalleyalpacas.com/welcome.php
Alpaca Palms - Bea and Dennis Miller
http://www.alpacapalms.com/about/index.html
All American Alpacas - Rick and Pati Horn
http://www.aaalpacas.com/visits.html

 

Always working on link ideas for this page. So more link info coming soon.

 

Thanks again for visiting,
Chuck and Nancy

Silver Thunder Alpacas
Making great alpacas in Greeneville, Tennessee
Pure Bred and Hand Fed!

 

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This page last updated 6/22/07