It’s now official. We will be a Regional Collection Points for NEAFP. Call to schedule a time to drop off your alpaca fiber, between these dates: July 20 – Aug 10. Below find an informational email:
Hello Fiber Friends –
Yet again we have been chosen as a NEAFP Collection Site.
We will be collecting Huacaya and suri fiber July 20 – Aug 10 2024
Please call 717-359-9989 or email juliesalpacas@gmail.com to schedule your drop off.
This information should also be on NEAFP.com under fiber collection, be sure to scroll down.
We have been asked to do things a little different so I’m passing this on to you.
- Join NEAFP Fiber Bank
- Fill out a deposit slip
- Place a deposit slip in each bag you send to collections
- Compress bags as much as possible
If you are new to NEAFP there is an informative video link here to help you get started.
How to start mailing fiber to fiber bank NEAFP
https://youtu.be/tzxsqulfbjA?si=TydCIunthyOirDt9
Compressing your fiber
https://youtu.be/DAZwa9ljiqU?si=RRW-pGEvu1FWfvJd
Last year’s 2023 Collection was collected in August and completed by 9/23/2024
PA Regional Collection #2 – Julie Wysong – Sort Complete 9/23
| Each year alpaca farms volunteer to be regional fiber drop-offs so area farms can get their fiber out of the field and into production.
Compared to farms mailing small lots of fiber individually, utilizing regional collections is a more economically feasible option. NEAFP will arrange transportation for the collected fiber once the drop-off window has closed. Our goal is to open regional collections around the country wherever there is enough demand. |
Acceptable Fiber
Huacaya and Suri: Blanket, Neck, & Upper Leg
| 2024 Regional Collection Transportation Fee
To help offset growing transportation costs, we are implementing a $10 transportation fee per 50 lbs submitted using Regional Collection Points. Fiber Transportation Fee Rate Example Table (based on incoming weight) 1 to 50 lbs = $10 51 to 100 lbs = $20 101 to 150 lbs = $30 151 to 200 lbs = $40 The transportation fee applies to incoming weight and will be invoiced to each farm once their fiber has been sorted through by NEAFP. The transportation fee will help offset the growing costs of running the collections and give us the resources to expand them in the future. The Fiber Transportation Fee is waived for all host farms running regional collections and fiber drop-offs. |
| PENNSYLVANIA | |
| Quarry Critters Alpaca Ranch
Julie Wysong 2024 Dates July 20 – Aug 10, 2024 By Appointment Phone: 717-359-9989 Email: Juliesalpacas@gmail.com |
Address:
580 Basehoar Rd Littlestown, PA 17340 |
Once your fiber arrives our sorters will sort through it and check it into your account. Depending on the overall quality of the fiber and the age of the alpaca, some fiber may be up or downgraded from how it was originally submitted. Overall fineness, % of strong primary fibers (guard hair), staple length, tensile strength, and % of contamination are all taken into account by our sorters when working through your fiber. We provide our sorter’s notes when updating your fiber bank account to help you understand your fiber and better prepare future submissions. We also have begun taking pictures to pass along as examples of fiber that has been up or downgraded, or discarded.
NEAFP DOES NOT require fiber coming in to us to be pre-sorted. We sort everything that comes in house to our own standards so save yourself the extra time and cost.
| Whether you are shipping your fiber in, dropping it off at an alpaca show or regional collection point, the most important thing is for it to contain the proper documentation. Deposits into the Fiber Bank should include a Fiber Bank Deposit Slip and fiber sent in to complete an order Waiting on Fiber should include a copy of the invoice. Proper identification will ensure your fiber gets sorted through and checked into your account as quickly as possible.
You can create one master Fiber Bank Deposit Slip with the total poundage of all grades of fiber you are submitting and include 1 copy of the slip in each box mailed in to us. This will save you in creating deposit slips for each individual bag of fiber in the shipment. Check out our Fiber Collection section to learn about the different ways of getting your fiber to NEAFP! |
Compressing your fiber
https://youtu.be/DAZwa9ljiqU?si=RRW-pGEvu1FWfvJd
How to start mailing fiber to fiber bank NEAFP
https://youtu.be/tzxsqulfbjA?si=TydCIunthyOirDt9
Thanks for your help in getting alpaca fiber to the mill and out of your barn.
Julie Wysong
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Looks what’s new.
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Nickolas our traveler-
March 2024 – At 6 months of age Nickolas went to AOA National Alpaca Show in Indiana and brought home a first and third place ribbons. Nickolas was traveling with Asgard Acres Alpaca Farm. Now at seven months he traveled on to Buckeye Alpaca Show in Ohio still with Asgard Acres Alpaca Farm. He won a 1st and 4th place.
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Look What’s New!
In this section, we will highlight alpacas, feature alpacas or products, reduced price products on sale or alpacas, fiber, fleece, new crias, handmade one of a kind products. Also included will be a clickable link that will take you to website, where you can read more or purchase.
Fluff Buster Sale – Fiber by the oz.
Fiber by the Oz
Take a look, click on the link above.. Supplies are limited when its gone its gone.
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Nickolas is at the show in Indiana.
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March 2024 is SCAT- Come Pick up a Load– Call for appointment to pick up your 2 for 1 sale. Tractor bucket load $16 for the first load and the second load is free.
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QCAR Alpaca Gift Shop
Shop hours: Wednesday – Saturday 10:00 – 3:00 or by appointment
Our Alpaca Gift Shop offers a range of handmade alpaca products and clothing, alpaca fibers in raw fleece, roving, yarn, needle felting supplies and kits and batting are available. Alpaca manure compost for your garden by the truckload or tea bags (for your house plants). We sell Poulin Alpaca Grain Feed , Dectomax, and halters for alpaca herd health.
Classes have been created and are on the website, we offer classes in fiber production and fiber arts. Take a look, I hope you can find a class with a time you can attend.
Tours our alpaca ranch with a knowledgeable guide, by appointment. $8.00 per person, discounts offered for larger groups.
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- *The tours include alpaca education
- On the tour you will meet the alpacas and learn about handling and care,
* See our production room and all the magic that happens to the alpaca fleece after it has been sheared off the alpacas.
*Finally visit the alpaca gift shop to see all the great products that can be produced using alpaca fiber. These items are for sale and make great gifts or memories of your visit to the alpaca ranch.
We breed alpacas for the best quality health and fiber. Our alpacas are for sale.
Have you ever thought about owning alpacas? Want to know more about care and ownership of them? QCAR offers alpaca ownership education by a knowledge instructor, David Wysong has been caring for alpacas since 2004. This 2 hour class is offered on Sunday 2-4. Must schedule. You will find answers to all your question. Please call to schedule 717-359-9989 or sign up online This class is free to anyone that has purchases an alpaca from Quarry Critters Alpaca Ranch.
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Scat—- Soil, Care, Alpaca Poop, Treatment
Available year round. Call to schedule a tractor bucket load, Saturdays 8-12.
EVENT—Pick up a Load
March 2024 ~ 8:00AM – 12:00pm (noon)
Get your gardens ready.
Alpaca manure or SCAT, as we like to call it, (Soil, Care, Alpaca Poop, Treatment) is a fantastic assortment of nutrients for your garden plants.
During, our March SCAT event, a one day giveaway event we are scooping up a load, ~a tractor loader full, that is,~ about 1/3 yards, to dump into your pick up truck. Buy one get the second load free.
Don’t have a pick up truck? Well some people have been very creative such as, trailers, trash cans, buckets or bags. We’ll dump it someplace and you shovel.
We will share the second scoop for free, that’s a $16.00 value. Additional loads are available during this one day event and throughout the year on Saturday mornings 8-noon, by appointment, for $16.00
Shearing Day—-
Alpaca Fleece Harvest Day
3rd Sunday in May ~ 2024 May 19th
All year long we offer, Alpaca fleece, fiber arts classes and a gift shop fill with products and apparel made with alpaca fiber.
Where does all that alpaca fiber come from?
The answer is: it comes from our alpacas, grown right here on the ranch.
Shearing day is harvest day at the alpaca ranch. All the alpacas get their hair cut. We collect their fleece to supply the shop.
You are invited to watch or get your hands on the fun.
We have a viewing area where you can watch the shearer, Nathan Good, and helpers take the alpaca fleece from the alpaca. Remember to visit the alpaca gift shop to take home a little alpaca of your own.
