We went to the coolest alpaca farm yesterday afternoon. Ya Ya's Alpaca Farm is in Missouri and totally worth the drive! I thought it looked kind of fun, but I was pleasantly surprised by just how much cool it really was! He brought in 3 alpacas for the kids to pet and feed while he explained all about alpacas in the United States, and how he started his alpaca farm.
Little Guy did alright with the first alpaca named Christmas, but then he got nervous and shy with the other two. He said he wanted to wait until he got outside to feed the babies.
Eddie the Alpaca's parentage comes from American alpaca royalty. His father is the most expensive alpaca ever sold in the United States for $275, 000!
We went outside to feed some more alpacas. Little Guy was scared to death since most of them are taller than him, but he soon warmed up to the babies, and then he got to feed them leaves, and by the end of it none of my kids wanted to leave. They were having so much fun!
This is called "Hungry on the Hill." Ya Ya dumps a ton of feed and then they all come up the hill. BB loved being up there with them.
At the end of the day they're let loose to run in the field and eat grass.
At the end of the tour, the kiddos choose a bunch of different dyed clumps of alpaca pelt and then it's rolled together smooth.
From there it's pulled back and forth in a machine that punches a bunch of needles through it to make it firm, and the kiddos ended up with their very own alpaca blanket.
The whole way home the kiddos couldn't stop talking about how much they loved the alpacas. They're already begging to go back. We loved it!
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