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Enchanted Hill Alpacas


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Found in southwest Virginia, near Roanoke, Enchanted Hill Alpacas is located atop the magnificent rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Plateau, at an elevation of 3000 feet. Cool summers and cold winters, abundant rainfall and piles of snow provide a climate conducive to raising pasture, hay, and a fine herd of huacaya alpacas.

Joanie and Ed Kinser, owners and caregivers at Enchanted Hill, have over 50 years of animal-care experience. Joanie, a registered nurse with special interests in fiber and health maintenance, keeps track of nutrition, immunizations, and deworming. Ed, the biologist/geneticist, provides daily care and does in-depth pedigree sleuthing. At present, the details of inheritance of color patterns, especially appaloosa, are being worked out.

With Joanie's lifelong interest in fiber, it was a given that one day alpacas would be included on our farm. When we met our first alpacas, it was a classic "love at first sight", so our herd began its formation in the Year 2000 and has now reached its preferred size of 20-30 animals.

The Enchanted Hill herd has had since its inception two common denominators--"friendly" with "fantastic fiber". Our herd is as friendly a group of alpacas as you'll ever want to meet. You may scratch heads, check fiber, and go eye-to-eye with these lovable beasts. You will also find that no two adult animals in the herd are the same shade (with the exception of the two white ones). Joanie, a hand spinner, has always preferred to work with natural colors of quality fiber. With this in mind, we have selected for a wide range of natural colors, from black to white and all shades in between, and are specializing in the appaloosa pattern, the fiber from which produces beautiful yarns.

You are welcome to visit the alpacas of Enchanted Hill (by appointment please). If you choose to walk among the alpacas, you'll get to mee

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Appaloosa Herdsire

Annie and her son

Friendly heads

Spring 06 Crias

   
Goat pasture friends and their guardian dogs, a
Great Pyrenees and a Bulgarian Karakachan. On bug patrol, you'll see guinea fowl and our own special breed of Hill Roamer chickens. As you sit on a stump and gaze out over the Blue Ridges Mountains, while nuzzled by a doe-eyed alpaca or two, you'll know you're in a little corner of paradise. Come see!

NEW WEBSITE: Visit us at our new website: www.enchantedhillalpacas.net and see photos of all our farm animals plus the flowers.

Update on BVD testing: All of our animals were tested in June '06 for BVD. Since then, new crias and new purchases have also been tested. All results were negatives.
   
 
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Joanie and Ed Kinser, of Enchanted Hill, have always enjoyed raising animals. Ed grew up on a farm, and both Joanie and Ed raised canaries before they met--in fact, that's how they met! They have one of the oldest herds of Dwarf Goats in the East. Ed is a licensed goat judge. Alpacas have been an easy addition for us.
 
     
   

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