Alpaca Keeping Raising Alpacas – Step by Step Guide Book… farming, care, diet, health and breeding

Just starting out and needed to get up to speed quickly. Easy read and lots of great information!! Key points on what to do before you even buy alpacas! Can’t buy just one when starting out!!

Covers mainly the business with a USA mentality, many basic errors, prices and figures very old and consequently wrong, but it provides a decent overview for the USA citizens and children. For European and other more developed readers not good...there are better books, more updated and better explained and illustrated.

This book was very informative and perfect for any person with no background in farming who plans to start an alpaca farm. This book should be one of the first additions to the resource library for that purpose. It is easy to read for someone with no background, I love the glossary in the back and the amount of additional resources provided for both the US and the UK. It is clear that the author has a genuine excitement for raising these animals and his excitement is passed along to the reader. It is an easy read and easy to understand. I would have liked to have seen more reference photos- but overall the book provides the reader with nearly every piece of information a farmer could need to get started with this farm. I give him 5 stars for that.

This book is pretty much a scam, it has a small amount of general info, somewhat less than you would find on wikipedia. Then the author manages to stretch it out to book length by simply repeating some of the information in a "Frequently Asked Questions" section, followed by 50 pages of addresses of breeders. Thats almost 1/3 of the book! It also contains a Foreword, and Afterword, a Glossary, list of websites, extensive Table of Contents, Index, etc. Its remarkable how little info this book actually has about how to actually keep alpaca.On the cover it says "Step by Step Guide Book" but there are no steps. I was interested in information about taking care of toe problems, for instance. Well, there is a section called "Feet". Its 4 sentences long. This section is listed in the table of contents and the index, so you will have no trouble finding it. The author indicates that he and some friends invested in a male alpaca at some point, and that he would like to get more involved with actually caring for them some day. That, and looking at the internet seem to be the limit of his knowledge.This book is obviously a money grab. It would have been some use for someone considering taking care of alpaca, before the internet existed. However, this book was published in 2014. Most if not all the positive reviews are fake. Im sorry, this book is a trick.

This book is pretty much just a brief summary on Alpacas. As others have mentioned almost 1/2 the book is a rather outdated list of websites of breeders of Alpacas in the US. Also it includes a FAQ section which while could have added additional materials for learning instead it posed questions like "What is an alpaca?" and other novice questions which had already been answered in the beginning chapters of the book.I also worry a bit about copyright issues with this book as I've seen almost exact paragraphs in other pamplets and free pdfs on raising alpacas online.

I found this book very informative, and easy to read, and would be a very good tool for anyone interested in raising alpacas; or simply for anyone who wants to learn more about alpacas. It began with their history and origin, then goes into the different types and colors of alpacas, and even their closest “relatives,” so to speak. I learned about the differences between the Huacaya and Suri alpacas; their fleece; how to feed and care for the different types; their body types; adaptability to weather; housing; healthcare; their unique characteristics; what it would cost to become an alpaca farmer, etc. Needless to say, this book was very informative, and would be a good addition to any library.

This was a great overview to the husbandry of alpacas. I was able to read it cover to cover in one sitting. Gave lots of helpful tips and vocab to help one decide if alpacas are for them.

I got this for my wife,so she could get some idea what these beautiful animals are about . As I plane to buy some later on and spend my retirement raising Alpaca,and I want her to help me. I would rec amend this to anybody who is curious about Alpaca.

Easy read

Met expectations

3/4 of the book is made up of internet links.

Perfect gift for my daughter & wife to read before our Alpaca arrives in March.

This book has very basic information and is not very specific. I would say it is an overview of keeping Alpacas so is useful if you are "thinking" about buying Alpacas but haven't yet taken the plunge. It has a large directory which may be useful if you are looking to purchase Alpacas. It does not however go into detail about husbandry, feeding, behaviour etc, so I would not recommend it if you have already got your Alpacas (which was the case with ourselves). Unfortunately there are very few books out there at the moment about Alpaca keeping!