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Happy Hounds Alpaca Ranch

Laurie McCallum & Dillon Hoffman

69401 Goodrich Rd Sisters, OR 97759 (541) 504-3149

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Hasselbring’s Harmony Ranch

Britt & Patty Hasselbring

29049 Davis Road Concordia, MO 64020

(816) 769-3939

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Flying Iron Ranch is located on the beautiful western slope of Colorado, 35 acres high on a mesa in Ouray County. Owned and operated by Christine Brown and Jim Head since 2014, our journey began with four foundation female alpacas. Over the past 8 years, we have quickly evolved into a state-of-the-art program that is home to over 60 select alpacas. Our alpacas feature remarkably diverse and elite bloodlines: Hemingway, Jeremiah, Zephyrus, Titan, and Quechua, just to name a few. We constantly strive to breed, show, and sell the highest quality alpacas that we can. Flying Iron Ranch offers herdsire breedings to all 10 of our champion males. We also offer for sale some of our very best females and their offspring, many champions themselves. Flying Iron Ranch is heavily involved in Colorado agritourism, as we conduct many farm tours and community special events. At Flying Iron Ranch, we are committed to alpacas as a fiber industry. As such, we produce our own unique alpaca products and select sourced items that are available in our farm store as well as at nearby festivals and events. Flying Iron Ranch welcomes you to visit our beautiful ranch and ignite your breeding program today!

Halo Ranch Alpacas is located at the end of the Oregon Trail in the beautiful Oregon City countryside. Since its inception in 2012, our mission has been to produce the highest quality suri alpacas in the United States. The ranch is managed by Zach Hackett and his wife Jessica, who has over 13 years of experience working with some of the largest alpaca farms in the country. Her experience has been vital in our maturation as an alpaca farm, and we continue to improve the quality of our herd year after year. We were able to acquire one of the most prestigious alpaca herds in the United States — Great Lakes Ranch. This addition doubled our herd size and we jumped light years ahead of our breeding goals. We’ve been fortunate enough to win the Futurity Breeder of the Year for medium size farms for the last three years. Not only do we strive to be competitive in the show ring, but we also endeavor to use every available resource the alpacas give us. On a daily basis we collect manure, compost it, and then use it not only on our own farm, but sell it as fertilizer to various agricultural companies as well. We also harvest and process our fiber to turn into yarn, fabric and hypoallergenic clothing. We take pride in and look forward to assisting new and experienced alpaca farmers achieve their breeding goals, and are excited about the future of the alpaca industry. Please let us know if you have any questions.

We’d love to hear from you! www.haloalpacas.com.

Happy Hounds Alpaca Ranch is located in beautiful Central Oregon surrounded by numerous mountain peaks and vast irrigated hay fields. Owned and operated by Laurie McCallum and Dillon Hoffman, H2R was started in 2010 on a small ranch in eastern Colorado. We quickly outgrew this property and decided an upgrade was in order. In 2013 we made the move to a sprawling 480-acre property in Sisters, Oregon that includes 360 acres of irrigated hay/pasture ground.

Our goal from the beginning was to acquire an elite group of top-quality dams and breed those to the best herdsires we could find that exemplify incredible phenotype while pairing impressive fleece qualities. We also focus on providing the highest quality nutrition possible in order to grow big, happy, healthy alpacas, all while maintaining these excellent fiber traits. Our herd has grown to slightly more than 100 alpacas, and we welcome you to visit and discuss how our breeding philosophy and animal husbandry has created excellence across our entire herd.

We fell in love with the living art that is the Suri alpaca, and today we share a farm with over 100 Suris in Concordia, Missouri. We are surrounded by the grace and beauty of Suri alpacas. We make breeding decisions carefully, using top stud males and females who have the characteristics to continue improvement of the Suri breed. We don’t want to just breed. We want to improve. Every year. We gather data from a variety of sources to help us make breeding decisions.

•Each year we have fiber samples analyzed from our animals to determine fineness, consistency, and comfort factor.

• We have our herd classified in the Suri Herd Improvement Program (SHIP) every three years or so and use information from that classification to identify strengths and weaknesses of each animal.

• We participate in the Alpaca Owners Association EPD program, so we are able to see how our animals rank amid others in the country in various fiber characteristics.

• Finally, we show our animals at alpaca shows to see how they stack up to other high-quality alpacas and get feedback from alpaca judges.

We breed and sell animals, both to those who already have alpacas and to those who are just starting out on their alpaca journey. We specialize in helping new farms start up. We provide education to introduce newcomers to alpacas, consult in farm set-up and herd management activities. We work with prospective owners to define their goals, select alpacas to match their goals, and then provide ongoing consulting and mentoring.

While breeding and selling animals is our primary focus, we also provide a variety of agritourism services, including tours (bringing alpacas to weddings and other events, and special appearances at nursing homes, senior centers, and schools. We sell manure, (both composted and raw) to farmers and gardeners in our area, as well.