Alpacas are exotic animals originally imported from South America from the countries of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, that are now raised in the United States as livestock for their fiber.

Alpaca fiber is sheared annually and processed into designer suits, blankets, and yarn and is highly sought after in the high fashion industry for its truly fantastic properties. The fiber is soft as cashmere, and lustrous and shiny as silk, as strong as wool, and each fiber is hollow inside giving it insulating properties like a thermos. Even an extremely thin blanket is soft, shiny and very warm. Alpacas grow fiber in 28 different natural shades, including white, black, gray, rose-gray, brown, and many shades in between.

Blaine Mangum is pictured here with Caesar 
and his mother, Ambrosia.  

Ceaser's Father, El Toro, is featured 
on our HerdSires Page

 Falling for them on our first farm visit, we purchased 7 animals, headed back to Florida and proceeded to find our future farm site. We located 100 acres of gently rolling, heavily wooded future Alpaca paradise in north Florida, 1/8th mile from the historic Suwannee River. 

We visited Alpaca farms from South Florida to the North Central United States, purchasing Alpacas with many diverse bloodlines and breedings, looking for the right mixture of colors and conformation for our core breeding animals. 

Now, in 2006, our operation has expanded to include dozens of fine animals, with sales constantly changing the number of animals on hand at any given time.

Most of our females, if not Ribbon winners themselves, have produced many show  and auction quality animals in the past. We feel breeding these core females to the champion quality herdsires we've chosen has giving us nothing but superb results. It shows the 'proof is in the pudding'.

      
       The Suwannee River Difference!

Blaine Mangum - Cindy Mac Donald
Julia Mangum
3662 North US 129
Live Oak, Florida  32060

Farm
(386) 208-0879

Updated
Wednesday, September 05, 2007