Alpacas in Pennsylvania
Welcome to Sugar Hollow Farm Alpacas, LLC and our alpacas in Pennsylvania! We are a small family run, veteran owned alpaca farm located in Waynesboro, PA offering huacaya alpacas and alpaca fiber products, both handmade and manufactured, for sale.
Sugar Hollow breeds for yarn. Our alpacas are high quality animals with beautiful fleece, excellent conformation, and easy going personalities. You’ll find plenty of density, crimp and fineness here – take a look at Matoskah’s skin biopsy results – Ian Watt of Alpaca Consulting places him in the top four of animals he’s tested for fineness and density. Our goal is to produce alpacas whose fleece will produce soft, bright yarn of the highest quality.
Come see Kathy’s hand-woven shawls & scarves, hand-knitted baby booties, warm socks, hats, stuffed animals, and dolls – all made of alpaca fiber – at our farm store and at craft fairs in the South Central Pennsylvania area. As our herd grows, so does our stock of home grown yarn (we can tell you which animal it comes from), and we have plenty of commercially processed alpaca yarn for sale, too. Interested in getting into alpaca farming? Arrange with us to visit our farm and see what is meant by “living the alpaca lifestyle”!
Sugar Hollow breeds for yarn. Our alpacas are high quality animals with beautiful fleece, excellent conformation, and easy going personalities. You’ll find plenty of density, crimp and fineness here – take a look at Matoskah’s skin biopsy results – Ian Watt of Alpaca Consulting places him in the top four of animals he’s tested for fineness and density. Our goal is to produce alpacas whose fleece will produce soft, bright yarn of the highest quality.
Come see Kathy’s hand-woven shawls & scarves, hand-knitted baby booties, warm socks, hats, stuffed animals, and dolls – all made of alpaca fiber – at our farm store and at craft fairs in the South Central Pennsylvania area. As our herd grows, so does our stock of home grown yarn (we can tell you which animal it comes from), and we have plenty of commercially processed alpaca yarn for sale, too. Interested in getting into alpaca farming? Arrange with us to visit our farm and see what is meant by “living the alpaca lifestyle”!
Alpaca Farm NewsMeet the newest member of the Sugar Hollow Farm herd, Aja of Finger Lakes. Aja is the true black son of A AND A & MFI QUIXOTIC and great grandson of MFI PERUVIAN JERICHO. These are proven genetics that we expect to deliver great things for our farm!
,With most of the cold weather behind us (hopefully!) we look forward to spring on the farm. Spring means alpaca shows, shearing, and baby alpacas! We are expecting two cria in late April/early May, and then another in the late spring and one in the fall. Watch this space for announcements and then plan your visit to see the cutest babies ever! Our farm store is still open by appointment for special gift items such as alpaca themed toys, felted soap, lotions, body wash, and some light weight alpaca socks for warmer weather wear. We ask that you please call first (717-749-7056) to make sure we're home. For directions and other contact information (like our cell numbers) click here
Congratulations to Lisa & Kevin Moore of Chambersburg, PA on the start of their alpaca adventure with the purchase of four fabulous males - Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie, Sugar Hollow's Bohemian Rhapsody, Sugar Hollow's Ramblin Man, and Sugar Hollow's Daydream Believer. 2023 EPDs show Louie and Dreamer in the top 5% for uniformity and Louie in the top 10% for fineness, while Bo and Rambler placed in the top 15% for fineness. These four males are a great start to producing wonderful yarn!
Congratulations to Sarah Sfreddo of Nokesville, VA on her purchase of Jumpin' Jack Flash's Maybellene, Sugar Hollow's Leonidus Layla, and Matoskah's Peg of Sugar Hollow! These girls display sweet dispositions as well as wonderful fineness and uniformity as shown in their 2023 EPDs . Peg is in the top 2% for fineness, top 4% for uniformity of fleece and the top 15% for crimp. Maybellene was in the top 6% for uniformity of fleece. They will make a great start to a new alpaca adventure!
Ribbons aren't everything!
There are basically four ways that one can assess the quality of alpaca fleece. The first is eyes and hands – how does it look and how does it feel? The more fleeces you get your eyes and hands on, the better you will be able to judge a quality fleece. The risk is “barn blindness,” which is when... [read more...] eGift cards! Want to get someone special that perfect alpaca gift, but don't know what to choose? Give him or her an eGift card to our farm store! Click here to make his or her alpaca dreams come true!
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Featured AlpacasThe 2023 EPD calculation is complete and many of our alpacas are in the top 15%, 10%, 5% and even 1% in seven of the measured traits. There were just under 55,000 female and nearly 31,000 male alpacas which participated in the EPD program in 2023. Here are the traits we're highlighting and what they mean:
AFD - Average Fiber Diameter. Indicates fineness (softness) SDAFD - Standard Deviation of AFD. Indicates uniformity of fleece SF - Spin Fineness. Indicates performance of fleece when spun %>30 - Percentage of fibers greater than 30 microns. The lower the micron the softer and more uniform the fleece. Being in the higher percentage bracket means that you have fewer fibers greater than 30 microns MC - Mean Curvature. Indicates the degree of frequency in crimp. A higher crimp frequency is more desirable MSL - Mean Staple Length. Indicates the length of the fleece. Longer fleece is more desirable FW - Fleece Weight. The amount of fleece an alpaca produces *Asterisks* around an alpaca's name means it has already been sold in 2024 Geogianna of Legacy's Conclusive - AFD, SDAFD, SF, %>30
Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah - AFD, SF, %>30 VBA AMAF Nitza - SDAFD Sugar Hollow's Long Tall Sally - SDAFD *Matoskah's Peg of Sugar Hollow* - %>30 Snowmass Secret Ovation - FW LAAF Starz Legend's Cleo - FW VBA AMAF Nitza - AFD, SF, %>30, MC, FW
*Matoskah's Peg of Sugar Hollow* - AFD (top 2%), SDAFD, SF Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Ready Teddy - AFD, SDAFD, SF, %>30 Snowmass Sexy Sadie - SDAFD, SF, FW *Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie* - SDAFD, SF, FW Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah - SDAFD *Sugar Hollow's Daydream Believer* - SDAFD Snowmass Secret Ovation - SDAFD King Leonidus' Tiny Dancer - SDAFD Sugar Hollow's Cecilia - SDAFD Inspiration's Keep The Faith - %>30 Inspiration's Keep The Faith - AFD, SDAFD, SF, %>30
Sugar Hollow's Rhiannon - SF, %>30 Snowmass Secret Ovation - SF, %>30 King Leonidus' Tiny Dancer - SF, %>30 Snowmass Sexy Sadie - AFD, %>30 *Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie* - AFD, SF *Jumpin Jack Flash's Maybellene* - SDAFD *Sugar Hollow's Bohemian Rhapsody* - %>30 Snowmass Secret Ovation - AFD, MC, MSL
*Sugar Hollow's Bohemian Rhapsody* - AFD, SF *Sugar Hollow's Ramblin Man* - AFD, SF Sugar Hollow's Cecilia - AFD, %>30 Sugar Hollow's Long Tall Sally - SF, %>30 Sugar Hollow's Rhiannon - AFD King Leonidus' Tiny Dancer - AFD LAAF Starz Legend's Cleo - SDAFD Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah - MC Snowmass Sexy Sadie - MC *Matoskah's Peg of Sugar Hollow* - MC |