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
Although it feels like the heat of summer will never end, it's time to start thinking about cooler weather and fall festivities! Following is a list of events we will be hosting or are planning to attend this fall. The list is based on events in which we participated in 2023 and to which we hope to be invited back! There may be changes so check back often!
National Alpaca Farm Days - Saturday, Sept. 28 from 10:30 to 4:00 & Sunday, Sept. 29 from 1:30 to 4:00. [Read more...] 
We had our second alpaca stork delivery for the season early in the morning on Thursday, July 11. Don't Stop Me Now (Queen) is a glowing bright white female! She is our first cria out of VBA AMAF Nitza by AMAF The Thunder Rolls. Thunder Rolls, owned by Autumn Mist Alpaca Farm in New York, has a remarkable pedigree - a veritable Who's Who in the alpaca industry - with names such as CCNF Leviathan, Beethoven's Dorian, CCNF Elixir, Snowmass Elite Legend, Snowmass Quechua, and Snowmass Matrix. Mom Nitza was the 2022 White Color Champion at the PAOBA Fleece Showcase and is in the EPD top 1% for uniformity of fleece and top 5% for fineness, percent of fibers above 30 microns, mean curvature, and fleece weight (see Featured Alpacas on the right side of this page). With these genetics we cannot WAIT to enter her into next year's alpaca shows!
 Twist and Shout at 9 days old taking it easy after a romp in the pasture
We had our first alpaca stork delivery for the season on Sunday morning May 19. Twist & Shout (Beatles) is a beautiful light fawn color that fades to beige which can best be described as a toasted marshmallow look. She is our first cria out of Sugar Hollow's Cecilia by our go to stud BGF Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah. Mat is amazingly fine with superb uniformity of fleece placing in the top 1 and 5 percent respectively in those categories in the latest EPD calculation (see Featured Alpacas on the right side of this page). Cecilia is no slouch either. Her EPDs put her in the top 1% for fleece weight and the top 5 and 15 percent in fleece uniformity and fineness respectively. Twist & Shout is a wonderful addition to our herd of incredibly soft and consistent yarn producers. We are expecting another cria this spring, and then one in the fall. Why not plan your summer visit to come see them! Our farm store is still open by appointment for special gift items such as alpaca themed toys, felted soap, lotions, body wash, and of course, lots of yarn! 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
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 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 Sugar Hollow's Cecilia - 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 
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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