Graceland North Alpacas and Angora Rabbits

About Us

Once you meet alpacas you'll fall in love with these beautiful and peaceful animals.

Graceland North Alpacas and Angora Rabbits is a full service, family run farm raising and breeding ARI registered Huacaya alpacas.  We also have a herd of fiber producing suri and huacaya males we keep for their wonderfully soft supply of fleece for yarn and fiber arts.  We also raise and breed satin angora rabbits, french angoras and german/satin hybrid angoras.    Our alpaca breeding goals are focused on selectively breeding for healthy animals with sound conformation.  We put breeding emphasis on fleece characteristics, specifically breeding for fleece fineness first then carefully balancing that fineness with a lack of guard hair, density, crimp style and staple length with a uniform blanket.  We offer quality alpacas for sale and stud services at affordable prices.  We have a sizable herd in a rainbow of colors to choose from ranging from white, fawn, black and even appaloosa.   As a testimate to our breeding program our offspring continue to win ribbons in very competitive halter shows - 23 ribbons and 1 reserve championship to date.   Many of our angora rabbits boast ribbon winning lineage also. 

Why We Raise Alpacas

Profitability from alpacas: Sell the offspring or sell their fleece from each yearly shearing.

Many call alpacas "The World's Finest Livestock".  With an investment in alpacas you can watch your herd and investment grow with each new birth. Alpacas are the worlds oldest breed of livestock being domesticated from the vacuna over 5,000 years ago.  Alpaca fiber is considered to be one of the finest fibers in the world,  it is soft and silky to the touch.  Alpacas are a unique fiber bearing animal in that they come in 22 natural colors as classified in the United States with many varying shades.  By blending the different colors you can come up with an almost unlimited array of shades of natural colors that can be spun into yarn then knitted,  woven or felted into wonderful end products such as sweaters, socks, hats, gloves, scarves, blankets or even rugs.  Alpaca fiber contains no lanolin as sheeps wool does, is non-allergenic and warmer than sheeps wool.  Many people that cannot wear sheeps wool due to the "itchiness"  can wear alpaca clothing.

Raising alpacas can offer great tax advantages. 

There are several tax advantages available to you if you plan on raising alpacas for a profit.  Depending on your tax situation, all expenditures attributable to raising them can be written off against your income, including your initial purchase of breeding stock, barns, fences, feed and veterinarian expenses to name a few. We recommend you talk to your tax accountant for more information.

 Our Commitment To You

Honesty, Integrity, and continued support before and after you purchase from us. We  put strong emphasis on continuing support.  We offer quality genetics with years of selective breeding at competitive prices and will help tailor your herd with selections that fit your needs and budget.    As we love "talking alpaca and angora", we  welcome any questions that you may have.  The health and well being of our animals is a large part of our customer service and we back that up with reproductive guarantees for any breeding alpaca sold.  We take a hands on approach for both our alpacas and rabbits and breed for calm dispostion for ease of care.   We love what we do and would like to help others to accomplish this, be it with the animal husbandry component of your business or the fiber component.  We care about our animals and their well being and offer to take back any animal if circumstances arise in which our customers can't care for them any longer.

 If you would like to learn more about either one of these unique animals give us a call at 715-648-5150 and ask for Pam or Jerry, we gladly welcome farm visits.  We are conveniently located in West Central Wisconsin in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley  just 1 hour 20 minutes from downtown Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota.

Our Alpaca and Angora Products

OUR FARM SPECIALIZES IN MADE IN AMERICA ITEMS

 Handspun handknit 100% alpaca hat

 Some of the products we offer in our webstore are millspun yarn, handspun yarn (100% alpaca or alpaca/angora blend), batts for handspinning, raw alpaca fleece, raw angora wool, handknit items.  All alpaca and angora items are made in america from our farm.  Check back in our webstore as we will be adding new items often.

We also raise and breed pedigreed french and satin angora rabbits.  Angora wool is at least 7 times warmer than sheeps wool and is one of the lightest natural fibers known.

Handmade Needle Felted Alpaca Ornament.

At the Farm

 Raising alpacas and angora rabbits  has been a very  peaceful and enriching experience since the winter of 2005 when our 1st 3 female alpacas were delivered to us.  Since then our alpaca herd has grown to almost 50 alpacas with births and additional purchases, this supplies us with a wonderful supply of yearly fleece for warm alpaca knit and woven clothing.   In the spring of 2008 we added angora rabbits to our farm.  We have found the combination of alpaca fleece and angora wool provides a soft and luxurious end product. 

  We have now successfully become our own micro-mini mill!  It has been my hope from the beginning that we would process all of our alpaca fleece and rabbit wool ourselves so our customers can be assured  their items are indeed made with alpaca/angora products 100% from America, 100% from our farm.   With our new fiber tumbler, electric spinner, loom and our other processing equipment, we will be offering a wide range of premium alpaca and alpaca/angora blend products including  batts, handspun yarn and a wide range of clothing and home decor.  Look for us  at local fairs and fiber festivals.   In the future we hope to add a large electric carder,  felt maker and a several large looms.  Check out our Farm Web Store often for any new products we have available.

For more information you can also link to our other website on AlpacaNation At:

Graceland North Alpacas on Alpacanation.com

Thank you for visiting, we hope you come back soon!

The Schabers