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About Nyala Farm Alpacas
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We can offer incredible support on genetics, fiber arts and care. We are committed to our clients success! From Nyala Farm you will get much more than great alpacas!
If you are new to alpacas we can: -teach you about showing alpacas -help you learn about alpaca husbandry -advise about birth and cria care (if you are local we will come help any time) -help you get good pictures of your animals. -help you market your animals. -get set up for alpaca farm visitors -choose alpaca insurance -choose a good vet -set up your farm
Nyala Farm Alpacas specializes in show quality colored Peruvian Huacayas, Accoyos and colored Accoyos. We know genetics and we know fiber!
Our farm's expertise in genetics is unique in the industry, Dr. Andrew Merriwether is a geneticist who studies human and animal population genetics and evolution. Dr. Ann Merriwether is developmental psychologist who has taught genetics for years.
Our herd is full Peruvian, many full accoyo, all show quality from amazing bloodlines. We offer free genetic consulting on breeding with any animals purchased from Nyala Farm Alpacas. Let us help you make the color and quality alpacas you want to make.
We love genetics but we love every aspect of the alpaca industry. We really enjoy the family orientation of the industry. We love going to alpaca shows and meeting other farms. We show our alpacas in halter, fleece, and performance.
We are "fiberholics" We love alpaca fiber and use our own fiber to make hats, slippers, Christmas items (stockings ornaments and Santa dolls) We can teach spinning, dyeing, and especially wet and dry felting. We can help you use your fiber! We lead an alpaca 4-H group which meets at our farm. We are kid friendly and think there is nothing better for family farms than raising alpacas!
For added fiber fun we also raise Wens |
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| Additional Farm Photos: (click to enlarge) |
| A Family Business | Fawn Accoyos | Amazing Fleece | Black Peruvians | | | 
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Buying an Alpaca from Nyala Farm
Why should you buy from us? We think we offer the best follow-up service in the industry. We have you covered on all aspects of the alpaca industry and very very few farms can say that. So what do you get if you buy from Nyala Farm besides a great alpaca?
Free Genetic Counseling
We will give you free genetic counseling on not just the animals you bought from us, but on your entire herd. We can help you make the color animal you want to make! We can help with breeding and purchasing decisions to improve conformation and fleece characteristics.
Free Fiber Arts lessons
Many alpaca farm have garages full of fleece and they don’t know what to do with it! We use all our fleeces and can help you do the same.
We can teach you to:
Skirt fleece Wash fleece Card fleece Dye fleece Spin fleece Dry and wet felt fleece into end products you can sell Choose a mill for processing Choose product for sale Price your fleece, roving, yarn and product Sell your end products
We will teach you about showing alpacas (or take your animals to shows for you). We show in halter, fleece, composite and performance.
We can teach you to:
Train your animal in halter showing Prepare a fleece for a show Train your animal in performance showing Get ready to show Microchip your animal Get organized for a show (know what to bring)
We will help you learn about Alpaca Husbandry:
We can teach you about alpaca husbandry. We can give advice on pasture and feeding. We will help you learn to:
Do shots Trim nails Evaluate teeth and trim if needed Body score an alpaca Run your own fecal tests
Alpaca Reproduction
We can advise about birth and cria care. Call us anytime day or night with questions (and for our local farms we will come any hour to help with either birth or cria care.
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| | | | | | Additional Contact Information: | | | | amerriwe@binghamton.edu | | | | | |
| | Breeder Biography Nyala Farm Alpacas was established in Michigan in 2002 by Andy and Ann
Merriwether, we moved to New York in 2003. Andy has a Ph.D. in Human
Genetics and Ann has a Ph.D. in Psychology. Our knowledge about
genetics and behavior is unique to the aplaca industry. Kenni and Helen
Merriwether are great alpaca trainers! They have won countless performance ribbons. We all
work together taking care of herd of 50+ alpacas. We also like to do lots of fiber related
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