The Alpaca Handbook: The Complete Guide to Raising a Happy and Healthy Herd

By Rebecca Gill

Learn how to create a safe and loving environment for your alpaca herd.

The Alpaca Handbook is the essential guide to raising, feeding, breeding, selling, and enjoying alpacas on the farm--whether you're raising them for fun or for profit. In this book, you'll learn everything you need to know to become a successful alpaca owner. With advice and real-world experience, Rebecca Gill of Cotton Creek Farms guides you in:

Setting up your shelter, fencing, and food sourceBuying, breeding, and selling alpacasUnderstanding and influencing alpaca behaviorTaking care of herd health and medical needsDelivering healthy, happy criasProfiting from fiber, agritourism, and farm storesInvolving youth in 4-H and alpaca showsAnd more

Not only will you gain knowledge about keeping alpacas through every stage of their lives, you'll also be able to create a happy, healthy home for your alpaca herd and avoid the classic mistakes that prohibit many alpaca owners from living the lifestyle they want.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493092278
• ISBN13: 9781493092277
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 248 Pages