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 NewsSUGAR HOLLOW FARM'S POST HOLIDAY ALPACA SALE! As promised, we have reduced the price on several of the Featured Alpacas posted on the right side of this page. If you are interested in raising alpacas call us to arrange a no obligation visit to talk about what is involved in having alpacas.
Due to recent problems we are seriously considering dropping our landline phone sometime in 2025. We are removing the number from our website but will not cancel the line until we run out of our current supply of business cards which still display that number. Please contact us by call or text on our mobile numbers:
Kathy: 703-859-3810 Jay: 571-643-6867 We will post an announcement here when our landline is cancelled. Thank you for your understanding. 
Our Farm Store is still open by appointment if you would like to purchase some cold weather alpaca gear. We still have plenty of warm socks, sweaters, hats, gloves, mittens, scarves, etc. to keep you warm as arctic air moves into our region. We also have lots of yarn to knit your own if you prefer, and keep those fingers warm, busy and productive this winter! Just give us a call (703-859-3810 or 571-643-6867), if we're home, we're open!
We had our third and final alpaca stork delivery for the season on Saturday, October 5. Little Susie (from the Everly Brothers tune) is a beautiful beige female! She is our second cria out of Snowmass Secret Ovation. Susie's sire is AMAF Zagato's Zippo owned by Autumn Mist Alpaca Farm in New York. Zippo is no slouch in the show ring being named the Full Fleece Huacaya Light Male Halter Color Champion at the 2019 NEAOBA Alpaca Fall Spectacular and the Full Fleece Huacaya Light Male Halter Invited Reserve Champion at the AOA National Show in 2020. His pedigree includes such notable names as Beethoven's Dorian, PPPeruvian Royal Fawn, and MFI Peruvian Jericho. Susie's Mom Secret Ovation is in the EPD top 1% for Fleece Weight, top 5% for uniformity (SDAFD), and top 10% for Spin Fineness and lack of fibers greater than 30 microns (click here for EPDs). We are looking forward to watching Susie as she matures and her fleece develops into an incredibly soft, uniform clip we won't be able to keep our hands off of!
Overall, our three 2024 crias are an outstanding group of beautifully fleeced females that have rewarded our journeys off the farm in search of more varied genetics and high quality breedings, and demonstrated continued success with our own herdsire Matoskah to produce increasingly finer, more uniform, and longer stapled alpaca fleeces to make superior yarns! 
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...] 
Snowmass Secret Ovation enjoying the relative cool of a summer evening with some feathered friends
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Featured AlpacasThe information for our 2023 EPD calculation has moved. Please click here to go to that page.
If you are interested owning alpacas the animals listed below would be a great way to start. Each female has produced at least two offspring on our farm, and a breeding to one Sugar Hollow's herdsires is included in the purchase price. The males have the desired fleece traits to produce amazingly soft yarns and could be used for breeding as they reach maturity. We are happy to provide a discount for packages of two or more alpacas purchased together.
 Inspiration's Keep the Faith
Inspiration's Keep the Faith is a beautiful dark fawn with awesome fineness and handle. Her 2023 EPDs place her in the top 10% for both fineness and uniformity of fleece. She has produced two offspring for us - her daughter King Leo's Tiny Dancer, and Sugar Hollow's Daydream Believer who took a 2nd place ribbon in the 2022 PAOBA Fleece Showcase. Faith makes beautiful yarn and has an easygoing personality although she is a bit shy.
Color: Dark Fawn Date of Birth: May 7, 2014 Price: 20% off. Reduced to $1,200 from $1,500  King Leo's Tiny Dancer is a WONDERFUL mom!
King Leo's Tiny Dancer produces an incredibly soft and uniform fleece which spins into wonderful yarn! We have used yarn made from her fiber in several of the handknitted items sold in our farm store. Dancer has given us two offspring and is currently bred to our herdsire Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah. Her first son, Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie, took first place in the light male class at the 2022 PAOBA Fleece Showcase. Her second son, Sugar Hollow's Ready Teddy, is the spitting image of Louie Louie! Dancer was the first cria born to Inspiration's Keep the Faith (see above) and has her mom's easygoing personality without being as shy.
Color: Beige Date of Birth: May 23, 2018 Price: 14% off. Reduced to $2,500 from $2,900  Sugar Hollow's Sweet Caroline
Sugar Hollow's Sweet Caroline is light brown in color which can sometimes produce an aura of maroon in certain light. She got that from her grandmother AHA Sheba. Caroline is an easy breeder who has produced four offspring for our farm. Having reared that many cria her fleece is not what it once was but she still produces soft fiber (much softer than wool!) that makes nice yarn. Her daughter Layla took blue ribbons in halter at the 2017 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase and MAPACA Small Breeder's Jubilee. Caroline is one of the least shy alpacas on the farm and is very food motivated. She is eager eat grain right out of your hand!
Color: Light Brown Date of Birth: May 15, 2013 Price: 10% off. Reduced to $900 from $1,000  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 has not been sent to the mill yet from this year's shearing but we expect the yarn from his fiber to be absolutely beautiful! He is in the top 5% of EPDs for five of the eight fleece characteristics tracked. 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  Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Magic Man
Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Magic Man turned one year old at the end of October. He is a lovely bay black color that looks brown in the light. He only had 6 months of fleece growth at shearing this year so we will save it to combine with next year's sheared fleece to send to the mill. He was also too young to be entered into any of this past spring's alpaca shows, but based on his dam and sire's EPDs and what he is showing us in this year's growth his fleece will be very fine and uniform which is what you want for producing amazingly soft alpaca yarns! Another wonderful addition for anyone interested in producing outstanding yarn.
Color: Bay Black Date of Birth: October 29,2023 Price: 33% off. Reduced to $1,000 from $1,500 Also for sale are two of our mature breeding males below:
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Alpaca Fleece Close-up, Brown
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