Salt River Alpacas

Welcome to Salt River Alpacas

Salt River Alpacas has always believed that if you listen to the fiber market and users of end products, and incorporate this into your breeding program, you will also get the best that alpacas have to offer!

This philosophy has allowed us to garner ribbons in the show ring while giving us a long range breeding program focused on 1) sustainability of fineness, 2) uniformity of fiber, 3) luster, and 4) density. While these are all characteristics valued in the show ring, we also believe the significance of alpacas is their potential to maintain these qualities well beyond their show years, thereby making them more valuable as fiber producers.

We make our breeding decisions based on quantitative fiber statistics of the sire and dam, conformation of each, and qualitative traits - such as luster and handle - that we believe will improve the next generation.

After several years of re-tooling our breeding program, and taking our animals off the market while we did so, the results are starting to pay off! Our quantitative data - density tests, histograms, and EPDs - suggest we now have a high quality herd and that a select group of our herd should be offered for sale in order to advance the greater Suri industry. As such, follow us over the next few years as we put more of our animals on the market!