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Message: [QUOTE="fishin4cars, post: 149586, member: 3097"] [b]The wool of the alpaca is fairly marketable, There are shearer that will come to your farm, shear the animals and buy the wool. With a small herd ofay 10+ animals the wool will cover most of the cost of the upkeep of the animals themselves. Breeding and getting to the point of selling small mini herds is where the profit starts showing up. Each animal is DNA certified so tracking the breed is one of the most monitored and tracked of all farm animals kept in the US. A typical mid range Alpaca is about $3000 - $10,000 each, but like koi there are exceptions that may sell for far more than that. As JW pointed out in the video the Alpaca are smaller, they are cleaner animals, they do there business in one place and there is almost no scent to the manure, making it very marketable for fertilizer. The manure called beans, and a small can be used several times to make water mixes for feeding plants as it will be 5/5/5 similar to miracle grow. They are not raised for food which is something the wife pretty dead set on. The tax break for a Alpaca farm is really good, Since the kids are now all grown we could use some tax break for sure and I really don't think Koi will make much profit here as a farm but I still want to try and raise some to see how they do, well either koi or goldfish, still not sure on that one yet.[/b] [/QUOTE]