About Alpacas:

My wife Sue and I are in our tenth year of breeding alpacas, we both wanted a change of career and after much thought decided that Alpacas would help us make that change.

We wanted a touch of the “Good Life” and a derelict barn and land came our way and so Atkins Alpacas became a reality. Sue also has a passion for flowers and we have a few poly tunnels filled to the brim, we both work full time from home now, Alpacas are our main business with Sue attending Local Farmers and Country Markets where Sue sells not only flowers but alpaca goods that she has spun and knitted into toys and garments from the fleece taken from our herd.

We started our herd with just five pregnant females and a male cria, we very quickly decided to purchase our first Accoyo stud male and before we knew it our herd had swelled to over sixty females.

There were many Peruvian and Australian stud males to choose from but Sue and I wanted to offer something different, after much research we found Snowmass in America,they had been breeding for colour and the quality of their alpacas were simply amazing. The decision was made and after a few emails and phone calls of we went to America,

We spent two days of sifting through and selecting the very best stud males available, that in fact Snowmass would only sell outside of America. They were pleased they were coming to England and we at Atkins Alpacas were the first English breeder to import such a large quantity of stud males from Snowmass to the Uk a total of seven stud males from white to True Black.

The genetics were amazing Snowmass Accoyo Hummers sire was the first One Million Dollar stud male in America carrying many much sought after genetics Hemingway for one.

Or true black stud male Snowmas Nova of Atkins`s sire was called Snowmass Nova who was the first black male to win the American Futurity beating whites for the first time.

We have now been putting our males to good use the boys have been working very hard indeed, and these genetics’ are sought after Worldwide. From humble beginnings we have now exported  31 alpacas to France to different breeders three to Sweden and very shortly another three to Northern Ireland.

Roger and Elaine wish us to re mate the girls using our Snowmass genetics’ once they have given birth to this years cria.

Whether you are just starting up or would like to enhance your herd with Snowmass genetics, please give us a call you will receive a warm welcome and we look forward to answering your questions on all aspects of alpaca ownership.

We can assist with Start up, Husbandry Courses, Stud work, Export Import, Sales, Transportation, Selecting a Stud Male and Planning. We have helped a number of genuine alpaca breeders start up new business’s all of whom are still trading.

Our backup is second to none, once you have purchased your first alpaca from us we give a free husbandry course dealing with toe nail clipping, injecting, grazing, birthing, transportation and much more. That’s fine of course but six months later when you need to carry it out on your own farm what then, simple we come to you and assist and demonstrate again,
That is the Akins difference and why people come back time and time again. In between we are always available at the end of a phone.

Tel Nick or Sue on 01453 731023 Email atkinsalpacas@msn.com

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