https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.comWE CREATE OUR TOMORROWS BY WHAT WE DREAM TODAYhttps://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/5671Scott and I were very excited to enter our suri herdsire EL DORADO GOLDEN THUNDER in the Innovative Fleece Assessment National Fleece Show 2020. This is a new AOA Show based solely on assessment of your alpacas fleece. The fleece is judged against all other suris in their grade. Golden Thunder was graded as a FINE Grade 3. His assessment forms were outstanding. His fleece traits were exactly what we were hoping for in a male we would be using as a stud male. At 3 years of age, he received the ...Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:39:39 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/5504One thing on our Goal List has been to produce a National Champion alpaca. We finally did it. At this years 2020 National Alpaca Show our Mature Suri Male El Dorado Blue's Troublemaker won the National Champion Dark Suri Male. We were over the moon excited. And our Dark Mature Suri Male, El Dorado Golden Thunder won a First place in his halter class as well!!! With these two 1st places and Championship we also were awarded The Classic Cup which represents the Small Suri Breeder!!! We were compl...Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:32:21 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/5389Alpacas of El Dorado are hitting the road and bringing their POP UP STORE to your venue!!!! Sip wine, coffee or just come for the alpacas and the beautiful socks and alpaca wear. Our specialty are venues where people come to enjoy the beautiful day and wineries and coffee shops are our favorites. Stay tuned for more dates coming, and stop by and say hi!!!!Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:22:48 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/48882017 was a banner year for Alpacas of El Dorado. We had over 13 exceptional cria born to the farm. Many of which we showed and were very pleased with our team. We also had a great sales year. 15 of our Suri and Huacaya went to new farms. We invested in many outside breedings to both Huacaya and Suri and cannot wait for the offspring. 4 of which were born in 2017. We cannot wait to show them to you in the show season. We decided to invest more into our products for sale in 2017 and Sock Sunday ...Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:50:47 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4846It's been a great year here at Alpacas of El Dorado. We have been blessed with many sales and have added some very fine genetics to our huacaya and suri herd. But what we are most pleased about is going into some very fine partnerships. We have partnered with Dale and Jan Davis and Derwydd Alpacas on 2 of the best suri males in California. Derwydd Accoyo Ch'aska, a Bruxo son who is fawn. And Derwydd Tagi's Phawchi, one sexy 1/2 accoyo male ! We have also partnered with Super Suris and Derwydd A...Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:40:57 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4847So, I haven't been on the blog for quite some time. I have been writing stories and saving them to my documents in our computer. Much to my dismay, about a month ago our computer started making clicking noises. It didn't want to boot up and I started getting scared that I might lose all of our "Alpaca Ease" files. These are the day to day files you keep on every one of your alpacas. I have three years of accumulated information on this. Doseages, treatments, birthing histories, everything you ca...Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:42:04 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4848It's weaning time here at the ranch and we like it to be as stress free as possible for both dams and cria. This year we have a group of six candidates to be weaned. We like to wean them in groups which ease the stress of not having mom for a day. The other idea we have found to be a great help is to put dams in one pasture and cria in a pasture right next to them. This way, they see each other all day and can touch each other through the fence but just can't nurse. All weanlings are checked all...Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:44:44 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4849Let me just say first, I don't claim to know everything and rely on my vets, mentors, and the internet for a lot of guidance. But I can give you a few pointers on what to look for on a failing cria. Just this year after 4 years of really not having any birthing problems we have had two recent situations. First a stillborn from a dam that has had many healthy crias and second a cria that looked to start out right and start to backslide within 24 hours after birth. We are awaiting the final result...Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:46:48 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4850It is amazing how your priorities change when you get into this business. We have a great truck and trailer set up that we had customized to meet our "alpaca traveling" needs. But we kept thinking about what would we do if we were off the ranch with our "rig" and an animal needed to be transported to the vet. Or how nice it would be if we had a small van for everyday use instead of having to take out the large "rig". Mostly I was thinking how nice it would be if I didn't have to depend on using ...Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:47:39 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4851We like to make halter training as pleasant of an experience as possible. Saying that, it seems everyone has had different experiences with halter training and I am always asking questions from people that have well mannered animals in the show ring. Getting them started young seems to work best for me. As soon as I could fit their tiny heads into halters we started working with them. Since all seven of our cria are about the same age, this made things easy. At about 2 months I started separatin...Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:48:38 +0000https://www.columbiaalpacabreeder.com/article-list/4852Today I noticed that two of our three studs that are in the same pen were shaking their heads and sneezing. It has been my experience that there is usually a tick or some other small irritant down in one of their ears. I have a great solution for this brought to me by Dr. Rob Pollard. He has put together an ear flush that actually works. It comes in an 8 ounce bottle and for mites or ticks you add 2ccs of ivermectin directly into the 8 ounce bottle. You then shake it up and draw up in a syringe ...Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:38:09 +0000