Alpaca Farm Days Package #8

Three Late Term Pregnant Females--these ladies are all scheduled to deliver by the end of October--Athena and Lola should deliver any day. If purchased individually their current list prices would total $44,250.

Price: $39,000

Alpacas included in package: (3 alpacas)

Chelsea's Athena - Huacaya, Bred Female, White

Chelsea's Athena is a pure Peruvian, bred female. She has head-to-toe coverage of absolutely gorgeous fiber, dense, crimpy and bright. She is an excellent and attentive mom, giving trouble-free births and producing plenty of milk. She has been bred to Moore Brook Apollo with an anticipated due date of 9/11/08.

HA Skyla - Huacaya, Bred Female, Medium Brown

Skyla's fiber is very uniform throughout her fleece. She has a very soft handle. To date even when bred to white her cria have been a shade of brown or beige.

Moore Brook Lola - Huacaya, Bred Female, Medium Fawn

Lola is a very sweet tempered female with dense crimpy fiber. Her lineage includes every color from white to true black and she is currently bred to Greybeard's Molokai who is a dark rose grey.

Alpaca Farm Days Package #7

Get October Fest and 1/2 interest in her male cria at
side for the current list price of the dam. This includes full possession of the male cria. At his current age it is too soon to tell if he will have a future as a herdsire. This is a great opportunity to get some wonderful genetics for your future herd development at no financial risk.

Price: $10,750

Alpacas included in package: (2 alpacas)

October Fest - Huacaya, Female, Medium Rose Grey
October Fest is stunning with soft handling fleece. Interesting mahogany/coffee roan gray with beautiful profile. She has given us a beautiful female cria in Tucker Creek's Zafiro so she is priced to sell so she can do the same in your pasture. Buy her soon so you can

select this year's breeding.

Rocky Road - Huacaya, Male, Medium Fawn
Another gorgeous Sun Tzu male--vigorous and curious.

Alpaca Farm Days Package #6

Get Mia and 1/2 interest in her male cria at side for the current list price of the dam. This includes full possession of the male cria. At his current age it is too soon to tell if he will have a future as a herdsire. This is a great opportunity to get some wonderful genetics for your future herd development at no financial risk.

Price: $17,750

Alpacas included in package: (2 alpacas)

Mia - Huacaya, Female, Light Rose Grey
Beautiful little lady will make a classy addition to your herd. She has a wonderful disposition. Her heritage includes a wide variety of colors ranging from white to fawn to dark silver grey so if you are looking to add some color to your herd she would be a wonderful choice.

Buckeye - Huacaya, Male, Pattern
Tucker Creek's Buckeye is a very dense crimpy energetic cria born of a beautiful rose grey dam and MSA Hemingway's Bogart--who is doing a wonderful job of following in his famous father's foot prints.

Alpaca Farm Days Package #5

Get Loki and 1/2 interest in her male cria at side for the current list price of the dam. This includes full possession of the male cria. At his current age it is too soon to tell if he will have a future as a herdsire. This is a great opportunity to get some wonderful genetics for your future herd development at no financial risk.
Price: $14,750

Alpacas included in package: (2 alpacas)

Loki - Huacaya, Female, Medium Fawn
Loki is a beautiful fawn greatgranddaughter of Peruvian Hemingway. She has a bit of color in her background including grey. She has a nice soft handle with ample staple length.

Heath - Huacaya, Male, Dark Brown
Heath is SNF Loki's first cria and he demonstrates all the characteristics you would expect with Peruvian Hemingway and Peruvian Alpamayo in his ancestry. As we have found with all of Sun Tzu's cria--they are dense with great color.

Alpaca Farm Days Package #4

Combine Packages 1 through 3 for a combined price of $60,000.

Six females, (5 of them Studmaster bred females). If purchased separately current combined list price $87,500; current combined package price $65,750.

Price: $60,000

Package #1
Elana - Huacaya, Female, Dark Brown
Toffee - Huacaya, Female, Medium Brown

Package #2
Bugaboo - Huacaya, Female, White
Luna - Huacaya, Female, Pattern

Package #3
Franchesca - Huacaya, Female, White
Bliss - Huacaya, Female, Beige

Alpaca Farm Days Package #3

Tucker Creek's Franchesca along with her female cria at side, Tucker Creek's Bliss. Franchesca is a first generation Studmaster female out of VIAC Karoline bringing the fineness of Acero Marka's Rockamundo matched with Studmaster MSA Hemingway's Bogart. Incredible fineness on both sides of the family tree.

Price: $28,750

Alpacas included in package: (2 alpacas)

Franchesca - Huacaya, Female, White
Wonderful female from award winning impact herdsire, Studmaster(tm) MSA Hemingway's Bogart! Mom is a Rockamundo daughter and consistently throws fine fleeced beauties

Franchesca has an incredible fleece ... 21.0 microns at three years of age. She is solid, strong and has beautiful comformation.

Franchesca has given us two beautiful female offspring in Tucker Creek's Lollipop and Tucker Creek's Bliss--so she is priced to sell so she can do the same in your pasture.


Bliss - Huacaya, Female, Beige
Bliss is part of a long line of females. Her granddam has only had one male and each of the female offspring who have been bred have only had female cria. She is strong and curious demonstrating the genetics of Sun Tzu. Her mother's line brings fineness and Sun Tzu's density and crimp.

Alpaca Farm Days Package #2

Oar's Bugaboo along with her female cria at side, Tucker Creek's Luna. Luna is a first generation Studmaster female out of a breeding with Studmaster EC Sun Tzu.

Price: $14,250

Alpacas included in package: (2 alpacas)

Bugaboo - Huacaya, Female, White

Bugaboo is a pretty blue eyed white with good conformation and coverage. We were so pleased with her 2008 cria she will again be bred to EC Sun Tzu for 2009.

Luna - Huacaya, Female, Pattern

Tucker Creek's Luna is another wonderful example of a Sun Tzu progeny. She has wonderful dense crimpy fiber. She has a wonderful curious disposition which is another trait found in Sun Tzu cria.

Alpaca Farm Days Package #1

Faiks' Elana along with her female cria at side, Tucker Creek's Toffee. Elana is a first generation Studmaster female out of Faiks' Athena and Studmaster El Toro. Elana has only had female cria to date. Toffee is the result of a breeding with Studmaster MSA Hemingway's Bogart.

Price: $22,750

Alpacas included in package: (2 alpacas)

Elana - Huacaya, Female, Dark Brown
Elana is a beautiful chocolate brown female. Fantastic coverage with a gorgeous head and a dense fleece. She is a wonderful proven mom having delivered four incredible females to date . . . one dark chocolate and two perfectly white and the fourth a lovely toffee color. Elana is sold with a breeding to MSA Hemingway's Bogart . . . we have had such great results the last two years we are repeating it again.Elana has given us four gorgeous female cria--how lucky can we get--she is priced to sell so she can do the same in your pasture next year!

Toffee - Huacaya, Female, Medium Brown
Lighter brown cria out of a gorgeous dark brown female. Toffee's grandsire is El Toro and her sire is Hemingway's Bogart. She is an incredible second generation Studmaster female capable of bringing color, density, crimp and great conformation to your herd.

Alpaca Farm Days - September 27th and 28th

During the last weekend in September you will find alpaca farms all over the United States and Canada opening their gates to welcome the public creating a great opportunity to share information about the breed and a chance to get a better look at these wonderful animals.

Alpacas at Tucker Creek will be open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on both Saturday, September 27th and Sunday, September 28th. During the weekend you will have the opportunity to see the daily activities involved in working with alpacas including cleaning the barn and pastures, feeding, toe nail trimming, shearing and breeding--depending on your time of arrival. There will also be farm tours and fiber spinning demonstrations. We are fortunate to have local fiber artist, Peggy Boisvert, joining us for part of the weekend. Alpaca yarn and finished products are available in our farm store--a great way to start your Christmas shopping.

Please join us as we love sharing these wonderful animals with visitors. Refreshments will be served and we will have drawings for male alpacas and alpaca products. Look forward to seeing you there. Please follow this link for directions.

September Cria Update

The month of September is half over and the timing on Peggy's return to the farm from her recent travels could not have been better--five cria arrived in five days. She had barely landed in Portland on September 9th when Tony called to tell her NWA/Faiks' Elana had delivered a beautiful Bogart female we have since named Tucker Creek's Toffee. She is a second generation Studmaster who is a beautiful coppery brown color with the signature density and crimp of Hemingway's Bogart. Her grandsire is Studmaster El Toro. Elana continues to be a very protective mom spitting at all of us as we have tended to Toffee's needs. But spitting aside--you gotta love an alpaca who has presented us with four female cria to date--Cocopuff out of Gallant Deed, Ivory out of Glacial Storm and Clearwater and Toffee out of Hemingway's Bogart.

The morning of September 11th at 9:11 AM K-2's Chandra owned by Parson's Prairie Farm presented us with a very crimpy dense beige Hemingway's Bogart female cria they appropriately named Tribute in honor of the date and time she was born. She is a second generation Studmaster with K-2 as her grandsire. Simply gorgeous. To date Chandra has also only had female cria--Tucker Creek's Juliette out of Glacial Storm and Tucker Creek's Khani and Tribute each out of Hemingway's Bogart.

The next day NWA/DKM Dakotah presented Parson's Prairie Farm with another Bogart cria--a medium fawn male named Fenway--very dense and crimpy. Dakotah is the ultimate mom.

One day later we were presented with two Sun Tzu male cria. The first, Tucker Creek's Heath, is a handsome dark brown male out of SNF Loki, a beautiful great granddaughter of Peruvian Hemingway. Heath is her first cria and she had a text book delivery.

October Fest was in labor a good portion of the day and was a very attentive auntie to the rest of the newborns in her pasture. Finally, late in the afternoon she presented us with a wonderful medium fawn male we have named Tucker Creek's Rocky Road. He is pretty much in non-stop motion. We never got a really good look at him nursing as he always a backed off when we checked--however, he continued to be in constant motion so we knew he had to be eating. Finally, we saw him nurse heartily so we could quit worrying. This is a shot of him checking out his new legs.

As long as we are doing updates on cria--check out this shot taken over the weekend of one of last year's cria--Tucker Creek's Journey out of Dakotah and Sun Tzu. The Overbey's of Parson's Prairie Farm sent me this shot showing Journey and Kellie Overbey getting ready for the fall show series--what a handsome Studmaster progeny. Nice job, Kellie.

With ten more births scheduled through the end of October we are thrilled with this year's group of Studmaster offspring.

IRS Has Created a Small Business Tax Center

The Internal Revenue Service has been adding many user-friendly links to their site over the last few years. One of the most recent additions is geared directly for small business. They have created the Self-Employed Individuals Tax Center. It provides key sections identifying "who is self-employed?"; if you are a new business they give the key points involved in Starting a Business as well as Operating a Business; they identify the key differences between Independent Contractors and Employees; highlight the various taxes you may be responsible for; how to find a tax preparer along with the forms you will be required to file and identifying the types of resource materials also available on their site.

If you look off to the left side of the page they also have additional links for Farmers and various other small business topics.

Small Business/Self-Employed
Farmers
Industries/Professions
International Taxpayers

Small Business/Self-Employed Topics
A-Z Index for Business
Small Business Events
Stakeholder Headliners
Small Business Videos
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More Topics . .

IRS Resources
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When you click on the link for Farmers you will find links to the various Publications we have mentioned in previous blog entries and seminars as well as tax tips specifically for agricultural business.

Take some time to review these links and get a comfort level for those issues you had questions about last year. You can also use the Business.Gov Toolkit on the right side of our blog if you have a question--just type in a topic in the search box and click on "search".

These are some great links to keep in your favorites--but don't hestitate to contact us with any questions you have. As a reminder, Peggy will be joining Fred Kraft at Northwest Alpacas on Wednesday, September 24th for a tax webinar from 5:00 to 6:30 pm and for a day long tax and business planning seminar on Friday, October 17th. Here are the links for each.

On-line Webinar--Wednesday, September 24th from 5:00 to 6:30 pm
http://www.alpacas.com/AlpacaInstitute/Enroll.aspx?CourseID=WS3

Alpaca Business and Tax Planning--Friday, October 17th
Northwest Alpacas, 11785 SW River Road, Hillsboro, OR 97123
http://www.alpacas.com/AlpacaInstitute/Enroll.aspx?CourseID=ODS5

Cria Update

Wow, September is here and we still have 15 more cria scheduled to arrive through mid-October. Since our last cria update on July 25th we have had three more deliveries--two female crias out of EC Sun Tzu and one male cria out of MSA Hemingway's Bogart.

On July 31st we were very happy with the arrival of Tucker Creek's Shea, a beautiful Sun Tzu female out of BW Saphirreshope AATC. Hope is owned by Parsons' Prairie Farm in Gladstone, MO. Shea is a second generation Studmaster female with her grand herdsire being MSA Peruvian Cannonero. Yes, that is a jacket on Shea--just because it was almost August doesn't mean it can't get cold on the Oregon coast. It got down to 47 degrees over night on the day she was born. Kim and Jeff Overbey own the virtual alpaca farm and have chosen to name this year's crias after ball parks--they already have a handsome little man named PARSONSPF Wrigley. What a great idea!





Two days later on August 2nd Oar's Bugaboo delivered a beautiful EC Sun Tzu baby girl. This little one was brought
into the world with the help of Tony Dejesus, one of the great guys who helps us run our farm. Korynn, our assistant, and Peggy were enroute to Northwest Alpacas to return Paul Revere and pick up Glacial Storm when they got the call that a new cria was in the pasture. Tony very handily took care of all the necessary new born issues and in return he got to name her. Tucker Creek's Luna is a very strong dense example of her father. With Bugaboo being a blue eyed white we, of course, had the concern her cria might also have blue eyes. Our history with Sun Tzu to date has been zero blue eyes so he is becoming our go-to guy for clients with blue-eyed females.





Our most recent addition was born on August 13th. It is a beautiful male out of our rose grey SNF Mia and MSA Hemingway's Bogart. The little guy has been named Tucker Creek's Buckeye. One of Peggy's best friends recently passed away after a lingering illness and they spent many hours over the years discussing the ups and downs of The Ohio State University Buckeyes. It seemed only appropriate to honor him by naming this little guy after their favorite team. As with all our Bogart babies--he is soft and crimpy.

The next wave of little ones should start arriving around the middle of September--will post another cria update early next month. Enjoy!