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 Welcome to Suri Land Alpaca Ranch located in Newton, Iowa. We are approximately thirty miles east of Des Moines, Iowa and two miles from Interstate 80, exit #168. We are home to about 60 Suri Alpacas - 26 are black, and 90% of the non-black alpacas have black in their lineage. That makes us the largest Black Suri Herd in Iowa and the Midwest. We also breed a few Huacayas.
Bob runs the ranch, assisted by our fourteen-year-old daughter Jessica, and wife Vicki. All our alpacas get daily hands on attention. Our five-year-old daughter, Maddie, adopted from China in October 2006 also assists in feeding and scooping poop. We also have 3 ag student from the local high school that work part time on the ranch.
We have many colorful suri's; however, our primary focus is breeding for dark and preferably black suri’s. In order to achieve our goal, we started out by selecting all maiden females with the desirable traits we found most most likely to produce Black. We also selected maidens so we could have direct impact on the selection of who the servicing herdsire would be. This method took us longer to get our first cria, but we felt it was the right thing to do. Our first four cria were all solid True Black. We currently run about 75% success rate on Black crias being born from our black herdsires.
All of our black alpacas come from well-known and well-respected Black and Gray bloodlines: Midas Touch, Fruzane Noir, Diablo, Inspiration of Bolivia, Sudden Impact, WRSR Doc Riley, Kobe of PVA, and Parinacota Oscar. Oscar was the first Gray alpaca imported to the United States. We also have alpacas from great Accoyo lines such as Accoyo Jackpot and Accoyo Bruxo.
For a small ranch, we have had great success at halter shows by winning more than our fair share of ribbons including a color and a reserve color championships. One of our farm bred True Black males was selected first by Dr Julio Sumar in September 2006 in a class of eleven Black yearling males |
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When you purchase an alpaca from Suri Land, you can expect our full commitment in helping you succeed. All our alpacas come with our full ranch guarantee. If you are not ready to take them home yet, we will board them for six months free, longer if needed. We believe that our guarantees are equal to the best in the American Alpaca community - our goal is to match or beat any farm guarantee that you can find.
Our customers who have sent females to us for breeding's are extremely pleased with the condition their girls are returned to them. All have been pleased that we do not "nickle and dime" expenses to them. If a female is sent for breeding and has to stay slightly longer than 60 days we do not charge boarding rates for the extra time. We do confirm all pregnancies with ultra-sounds.
We have done breeding's for farms as close as Nebraska , Minnesota and Kentucky, and as far away as the state of Washington.
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