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”!
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Alpaca Farm News Yes! We have THESE socks in stock
Valentines Day will be here before you know it! Is your sweetheart tired of the old and predictable flowers and candy routine for gifts? How about something she can REALLY enjoy this time of year - some soft and warm alpaca socks! Candy and flowers only last a short time, but alpaca socks will keep her warm throughout the rest of winter to the sunny days of Spring (which currently seem very far away). Our farm store is open by appointment for ALL your cold weather apparel needs. Please contact us by text, or call. We have socks, hats, gloves, scarves, blankets, and sweaters in stock to help keep you warm through these cold winter days.
UPDATE to post below: We arrived at the point where we needed to re-stock and there was indeed a price increase averaging about 7% (We assume our supplier has absorbed some of the additional cost). We still have many items from our original order in the Spring at their original prices, but our newer stock will reflect the increase in price due to current tariff policy. Our hope is that the tariffs will be lifted and prices can be lowered again.
Pre-Tariff Pricing!! - Seeing the writing on the wall this past spring we went ahead and placed orders to our suppliers BEFORE the implementation of tariffs. Approximately 95% of our products are priced the same as they were last year. As our inventories dwindle this fall reorders will necessarily reflect the higher prices resulting from the tariffs. Our advice is to shop early! 
The 2024 EPD calculation is complete and we have posted the results for our herd here. We had 6 of our current 21 alpacas place in the top 1% in at least one category and 3 place in more than one category! We had 11 in the top 5%, and 10 in each of the top 10% and 15%. There were over 56,000 female and nearly 32,000 male alpacas which participated in the EPD program in 2024. We are excited to see continued progress in the quality of fleece our herd is able to produce!
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...] 
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Featured AlpacasIf you are interested in owning alpacas the three males listed below may be a great way to start. They have the desired fleece traits to produce amazingly soft yarns and all three are breeders. We will take up to 30% off if you take all three in one package. If you are looking for females you will have to wait until 2027 when our 2026 crias will be old enough to leave the farm.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Magic Man
Often times when an alpaca is born we can't be sure of the quality of the fleece it will have until after the second shearing. The 2025 histogram report for Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Magic Man (you can see the report here) has proven that someone could have ended up with a real diamond in the rough had they purchased him last year when we had reduced his price based on the quality of his cria fleece. The report from last spring's shearing showed he has a very fine and uniform fleece with above average staple length. These are the qualities you're looking for if you want to produce high quality alpaca yarn. His 2025 EPDs (just released) have confirmed that he is likely to pass on his fineness and uniformity to his offspring. He placed in the top 5% for AFD, SF, and %>30; and top 10% for SDAFD (see definitions for the abbreviations here). Magic Man would be a wonderful addition for anyone interested in producing outstanding yarn, and possibly breeding for future generations of quality fleece producing alpacas..
Color: Bay Black Date of Birth: October 29,2023 Price: $2,000  Ready Teddy full fleeced!
Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Ready Teddy is the spitting image of his full brother Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie (who was sold in early 2024). He has tremendous fineness, uniformity and crimp. His fleece is currently at the mill and we expect the yarn from his fiber to be absolutely beautiful! He is just outside the top 5% of EPDs for %>30 (5.98%); just outside the top 10% for AFD and SF (10.47% and 10.07% respectively); and top 15% for SDAFD. You can see definitions for the abbreviations here. We would keep him as a breeder on our farm except that we own his sire and already have his stunning genetics. Teddy would be a great choice for anyone interested in producing outstanding yarn and possibly using him as a herdsire.
Color: Light Fawn Date of Birth: June 16, 2023 Price: 25% off. Reduced to $1,500 from $2,000 
LAAF Starz Legend's Cleo was the white male champion at the 2022 PAOBA Fleece Showcase and took a blue ribbon in halter at both the MAPACA Jubilee and the Mid-Atlantic Alpaca Gala in 2023. Although he is a very big boy at nearly 200 lbs he has a nice, calm demeanor. Being large does have advantages however. The 2025 EPD calculation placed him in the top 1% for Fleece Weight (actually the top 1/10 of 1% at 0.07%!). He also placed just outside the top 5% (5.77%) for SDAFD (Standard Deviation of Average Fiber Diameter). So with him and his offspring you get lots and lots of uniform, crimpy fleece!
Color: White Date of Birth: January 6, 2018 Price: $4,000 
Snowmass Secret Ovation enjoying the relative cool of a summer evening with some feathered friends
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Alpaca Fleece...
Alpaca Fleece Close-up, Brown
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