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Liz & Lee Clark

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Winter on the farm

Herd sires sun-bathing

Snow play ~ Jaxson & Liz

Turkey Creek - brrr!!


Mohana testing the fluffy stuff


Just for fun ...

Rocky & Samson of Imperial Alpacas ~ quite the duo!


Scrumptious fleece compliments   of Royal Crest

 

Welcome to Turkey Creek Alpacas

                     ... where the customer comes first!

 

Our site was designed for the new alpaca farmer and is loaded with helpful information. Our website was made with YOU in mind because it's important to us that you feel prepared and comfortable when it's time to bring your new animals home. Why? Because we care about the future of our animals and the success of our customers.

 

Why buy from us?

 

Because at Turkey Creek Alpacas, our number one top priority is YOU, the customer!

Since 2001 we have been assisting new and existing farms with everyday questions, barn & site setup, pasture management, training … you name it! Customer assistance is what we’ve built our reputation on. Just ask our customers. Over and over again we've been told “we wish we would have come to you first!”

Because we *are* small, we are able to provide full-time, on-site care for our animals, and 7-day-a-week assistance for our customers. We are there to assist you when needed. We pride ourselves on honesty, integrity and true friendship with our customers. We strive to hold the highest moral standards and uphold the ethics of the industry. We provide complete and accurate health records for each animal. We have fine tuned our record-keeping to indicate such things as a dam’s exact breeding and birthing schedules, milk and colostrum production, cria birth weight and growth rates.

 

Our animals have been desensitized and trained at an early age making them easy to handle and care for, a pleasure to have around. We know each animal’s personality, their quirks and particular habits. To us they are “individuals”, not just part of our herd.

 

We are quality driven, service oriented, and small by choice. The bottom line is, we don’t only offer support, we deliver!

 

We offer

  • ARI registered huacaya alpacas

  • Multiple-ribboned herd sires

  • Competitive pricing

  • Reproductive & live birth guarantees

  • Lifetime customer support 24/7, 365 days/year

  • We specialize in mentoring new owners & breeders

  • Trained animals

  • Complete health records

  • Reproductive & live birth guarantee

  • 2 months free boarding with purchase of production female

  • Free delivery within 150 miles with purchase of breeding stock

  • Flexible & creative financing

  • Continuous support & assistance

Our story

  

Nestled in a wooded corner overlooking a rambling creek, Turkey Creek Alpacas is centrally located in upstate Indiana approximately 30 miles south of the Michigan border.

 

Our farm started in 2001 with only a log home on 4 acres. Everything needed for raising alpacas was built from the ground up - a barn, fencing, seeding pastures, the works! It was quite an adventure.

 

Our alpaca "adventure" started after seeing an ad on the Discovery channel which portrayed the animals as gentle and easy to manage. We spent many hours researching the alpaca business and visited several farms.

 

Raising the animals as a small business was appealing to us because the end product from the animal, soft and luxurious wool referred to as "fiber", is obtained without harm.

Ooh la la !! Fleece by Protégé

 

The appeal to raise "green" livestock with the added bonus of a "green" end product was exactly what we were searching for.

 

We view the alpaca business as a two-fold opportunity - the first being the breeding and sales of animals - and the second the start of a cottage business from the fiber.

 

Our vision is to breed healthy animals with correct conformation - and most of all - breed for quality fiber.

 

Our focus is to create an end product that utilizes the unique qualities of the alpaca fiber.

 

Our choice to be a small farm allows us the opportunity to give individual attention to our animals that larger farms often cannot. With this approach, we can assure the best attention, nutritionally and health-wise for each animal.

 

We invite you to tour our farm and share our enjoyment of the alpacas and this exceptional lifestyle.

 

 

2010 Events:


Visit our farm shop

We carry raw fleeces, rovings, yarn and a variety of hand-crafted items. Many of our pieces contain fiber from animals on our farm.

Join our email list for shop promotions, classes, and farm announcements.

We are typically open Sunday and Monday afternoons but call ahead just to be sure we are home: 574/5181516 -

or email us at  info@turkeycreekalpacas.com


Shearing Day Open House

Saturday, May 8, 2010

It’s time for a trim! Join us at Turkey Creek Alpacas for our 6th Annual Alpaca Shearing Festival & Open House. Each year, the alpacas look forward to spring when they are freed from their fleeces for cool summer hair-do’s. You will not believe your eyes how different each one looks!

Watch fiber artists take their fleeces from the shearing table through the various processes needed to make yarn from their fiber. Visit the shop and try on a pair of luscious alpaca gloves or sink your hands into an alpaca teddy bear and see for yourself why alpaca is considered “the Fiber of the Gods”.

Serious “alpaca-holics”, bring along your questions and schedule a day for hands-on experience with the alpacas. We look forward to meeting you!


Shearing Day Open House

Saturday and Sunday, September 25 & 26, 2010

Join us at Turkey Creek Alpacas for National Alpaca Farm Days!

On Saturday fiber artists will demonstrate age-old crafts using freshly shorn alpaca fiber. Get nose-to-nose with an alpaca and visit the “nursery”. Enter the “name the cria” contest. Take a peek in the *alpaca’s garden* and see if you can win this year’s contest. And browse through the luxuriously soft alpaca products in the farm shop.

Sunday will be an informal day of farm tours, alpaca chat, and hands-on experience for the serious lookers. Share a day with us in our scenic setting in the country.

The Clark’s will share their experiences of day-to-day alpaca care and various aspects of alpaca farming. If you are interested in alpaca ownership, here’s your chance to get up close and personal with the alpacas. Take this opportunity to learn what it takes to become an alpaca farmer.

Come for the fun … come for the experience … come and see if the Alpaca Lifestyle is right for you!!


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Come and visit us soon!

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Liz & Lee Clark - northern Indiana - contact us at info@turkeycreekalpacas.com