After about 340 days of pregnancy, Mariah, one of 64 alpacas owned by the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, gave birth to the first cria of the spring at White Violet Farm Alpacas at ...

NEW HOLSTEIN, Wis. (WLUK) -- Staff at a Fond du Lac County petting zoo got quite a surprise earlier this month. Jasmine the alpaca has called Cristo Rey Ranch near Fond du Lac home for about 10 years.

FOND DU LAC – When Sister Stephen Bloesl of Cristo Rey Ranch answered the phone on Aug. 7, she wasn’t expecting to hear the panicked voice of a petting zoo employee telling her their alpaca, Jasmine, ...

Collene Miller always wanted to write a children’s book. So when something miraculous happened on the alpaca farm owned by Collene and her husband, Tom, she knew it was time to get busy. “The story ...

Area farms will be open to show off animals for National Alpaca Farm Days. Patrick DiGirolamo, owner of Falls Edge Farm in Benton, holds Apollo, a female alpaca that was born Sept 18. Clark Van ...

Beth Lutz and her husband, Neal, started their alpaca farm 16 years ago with just three of the animals. Now, their Jackson Township farm is home to close to 40. Beth never imagined she would have so ...

AN author who swapped classrooms for the countryside has turned the unexpected premature birth of an alpaca she owns into a children’s book. Carole Burn owns the Prince Bishop Alpacas of Durham, in ...

Alise Schmitt in Marysville showed alpacas at a farm near Silvana during the recent National Alpaca Farm Days on Sept. 27 and 28. Visitors with open palms fed alpacas food pellets. During the same ...

AS the sun comes up west of Carlisle this summer, Jane Hodgson is in her paddock ready for one of the most exciting times of the year - alpaca birthing season. Jane, who has been breeding alpacas and ...

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Beth Lutz doesn’t yet have a name for the newest alpaca resident of her Painted Spring farm in Jackson Township. But the baby, born Thursday morning, brought a joyful feeling after a tragedy less than ...