You may know them as gloves, scarves and sweaters, but what you may not know about alpacas, is that they are often confused with their cousin the llama; and sheared like sheep. They have a coat that ...

If you're thinking about getting the family out of the city for Memorial Day, head out to the 10th annual Alpaca Shearing Day and Fiber Festival in Elgin. Kids and adults can shear the alpacas — ...

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Spend enough time around alpacas and you get used to their distinct noises, even the screeches some of them let out during a shearing. Brent Winslow has given many an alpaca a haircut over the years.

GOODE — On a chilly, damp Sunday, alpacas at A Goode View Alpaca Farm parted ways with their warm, thick fleece. When Goldmine, the first alpaca to undergo her annual shearing, was led out of the barn ...

The herd of alpacas entered the shearing sheds with a year’s worth of wool on their backs. Each left cleanly shorn, much lighter and humming happily. In the back of the shed, Fox Wire Farm owner John ...

Odessa, Florida -- When Brenda and Frank Crum purchased a vast plot of land within a half-mile radius just north of Tampa, Florida, they suddenly had a 147-acre challenge on their hands: What to do ...