Last update on January 31, 2010.

Xanadu Farm was named
"Reserve Small Breeder of the Year"
at the 2001 Futurity!

One of our trademarks here at Xanadu Farm is "Enriching Pedigrees.... One Champion at a Time."   For us it means that we show and offer for sale to you, alpacas from our own careful breeding program.  We're delighted to be able to share our 16 years of experience to help you get started or to make your alpaca business more profitable. We'd love to have you visit and enjoy the results of our time and care.  Check out our news on What's Hot.

Xanadu Farm maintains a foundation breeding herd of approximately 18 elite quality females (1 grey Chilean and the rest full Peruvian). See Xanadu Moms for a closer look.  We gathered and continue to refine this group by handpicking our females from the very best of our own production and other elite US breeders, and then breeding them both to top outside herdsires from across the country and to our own champion males. 

We proudly offer an outstanding line up of champion herdsires. We're also very excited to introduce our Xanadu Pedigree Enrichment Program which will offer 1/2 price breedings to our herdsires for all alpacas purchased from us. See our Alpacas For Sale page for details. 

Our veteran is 7-time “Get of Sire” winner, Peruvian Presidio. Presidio gives new meaning to champion genotype, stamping each of his 150+ crias with wonderful, dense fleece and correct conformation and bites. Presidio's offspring had over 75 championships when we stopped counting.  We've re-opened his breeding after 5 years to offer 5 1/2 price breedings.  See Herdsire page for details, and, of course, we'll always have a few of his crias and one or two females for sale bred to him.

We're excited to also offer three of the best young herdsires in the country for 2010. First is Maple Brook Barnabus, a 12.8 micron, Accoyo Augusto grandson with simply breathtaking crias on the ground. His offspring are consistent color champions and all carry the finest fleece.   He just won his 3rd "Get of Sire" class, too in a GWAS class of 17 entries, WOW!"  We co-own Barnabus with Heart's Desire Farm.

We've just brought our new superfine, champion herdsire into our program.  Eastwind's Snowstorm is a Snowmass Messiah son/Accoyo El Moustachio grandson.  He's stacked up wonderful show credentials but is also proven to bring his fineness, fleece organization and beautiful style to his crias.  We co-own Snowstorm with Trueheart Alpacas in Colorado.

We’re delighted to stand, Xanadu P. Resolute, our Barnabus son from a ˝ Accoyo, Timoteo line mom. Resolute was Reserve Champion of 98 white males at the 2007, Level V, GWAS show. He carries a fabulous 15 micron/3.4 SD one year fleece with 12-13 crimps per inch. Judge Anderson called him the “Wow Fleece” of the GWAS show.  His 36 month fleece still retains 19.3 micron fineness after a year of breeding. Crias coming!

Take a look at the resumes of all four on Xanadu Herdsires.

When we sat down to plan our alpaca business over sixteen years ago, we decided to concentrate first on becoming the best possible judges of fleece and conformation. We used that experience to assemble our breeding herd and since then to pursue a thoughtful and aggressive breeding program. For us this means that we focus on the quality of each individual alpaca and how to improve its offspring through selective breeding, rather than chasing after gimmicks and "brand name" marketing. Take a look at our Cria Class of 2009 page to see how we’re doing. 

We also firmly believe that the "proof is in the pudding" - that show success is a cornerstone of any good breeding program. See how we're doing by clicking on "2010 Show Results". Finally, we think we offer the best after sale support in the business.  Our farm managers, live right across from the barn and spend all of their time taking care of our herd and visiting moms and crias, and we take great pleasure in working with our customers to help them build their own winning program.

Most importantly, we’re dedicated to building the United States fibre industry. All of our fleece clip every year is turned into sumptuous alpaca products. Working with fibre artist, Cheri Paxson of Goose Bumps Yarns, we have developed an elite line of yarn from our royal baby fleece. Cheri carefully supervises every step of the process from fleece to heavenly soft yarn. Yarns are available in our rich array of natural colors and Goose Bumps’ hand dyed rainbow of colors. Check this out at Cheri’s Website at Paxknits.com. All of our other fleece goes to Timnath Goal Diggers alpaca 4-H club where they produce lovely knit and felted products.

We're located 35 miles north of Denver International Airport, just west of Platteville, Colorado. We offer continuing support and financing for our customers,  as well as, the services of the finest herdsires in the country. Our decision to stay at our current size makes it possible for us always to have a large number of high quality male and female crias, yearlings and proven moms for sale at reasonable prices for their quality. Click on the "Alpacas for Sale" page for details! We'd love to have you visit.  We now have guest quarters available, too.

Check out What's Hot to see what we're up to!