Events

Visitors are always welcome at Blue Mesa Alpacas ranch.  Please call (505-473-9316) if you would like to come out, even if just to sit in a field for an hour and enjoy watching the alpacas play.  Click on the Driving Directions button for specific directions from your place to Blue Mesa ranch.

The New Mexico State Fair to be held in Albuquerque in September will feature an Open Alpaca Show the weekend of Sept. 20-21.  Be sure to put that on your calendar!  We'll have a display booth there, so stop by to say "hi."

Also National Alpaca Farm Days will be held the last weekend of September (Sept. 27-28).  A number of alpaca ranches across the entire country will be holding Open Ranch events in conjunction with this promotion, including ours.  Our Open Ranch hours will be 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 27-28).  Check back for more details as the time draws closer.

August 2008:

Exciting news:  We now also offer herdsires from the Royal Fawn line, notably Enchantment's Manuelito, a multi-blue ribbon winner whose sire is Dom Lucilio and grandsire is  PPPeruvian Royal Fawn 6014.  We also stand at stud Galleria's Julius Ceazar, a medium fawn grandson of  Royal Fawn.

August has been a good month for us. We attended the AFCNA Continental Fleece Show (a level IV) in Denver.  The show had over 430 fleeces shown and was, by all accounts, an extremely high quality fiber show!  We walked away with 1 -1st place, 2 - 2nd places, 1 - 3rd place and 2 - 4th place ribbons. We also purchased a lovely black baby Suri and her mom, to be arriving in late August or early September.

July 2008:

AN AREA OPEN RANCH DAY was held Saturday, July 12th.  A number of alpaca ranches in the Eldorado area were open so that visitors could enjoy getting to meet & learn about alpacas.  The local Farm Stores at the ranches were also open, offering visitors a wide array of fine alpaca fiber products (yarns, socks, hats, sweaters, teddy bears, throws, rugs, etc.) at a special open ranch day sale price of 15% off.

The three ranch locations at which the event were held were:

  AlpacaWorks  54C Jacinto Road, Santa Fe

  Sagebrush Alpacas  54B Jacinto Road, Santa Fe

  Blue Mesa Alpacas  10 Blue Mesa Road, Santa Fe (across the road from 54C & 54B Jacinto Road)

Our Open-Ranch Days event the weekend of June 7th - 8th was a big success!  We thank everyone who came along.  We had a fun time showing visitors around our ranch, showing off our "gang" and chatting about alpacas.

At the Albuquerque State Fair in Sept. 2007 our herdsire Shockwave's offspring won a number of awards: 1 Color Champion, 1 Reserve Color Champion, 4 First Place, 1 Third Place and 2 Fourth Place ribbons.  Click on the "Herdsires" tab for more details.

In 2007 our herdsire Crescent Moon’s Shockwave had several crias earn ribbons in Level 5 shows. His daughter Rose won Reserve Color Champion at the TXOLAN show, and also won Color Champion at GWAS in Denver. Another daughter, Juliette, took Fifth Place in Fleece at the AOBA Nationals.  One of Shockwave’s sons, Caruso, took Third Place in Fleece at the AOBA Nationals.

Also in 2007, our new herdsire BRCR’s Peruvian Ricochet placed Fourth in his halter class at GWAS, and Third in Fleece at the AOBA Nationals.  Rico started off well in 2008, winning a blue ribbon (First Place) at the 2008 Fiber-to-Fashion Spin-Off in Las Vegas.