Alpacas provide an excellent investment opportunity and the most luxurious fiber in the world. The fleece,compared to cashmere,is noted for it’s fineness, light weight and luster and makes the finest garments known. Alpaca textiles are recognized world wide.

At this stage of the alpaca industry, an alpacas price is directly related to its breeding potential and the potential in the quality of its offspring.

A castrated male has no breeding potential,therefore its value may be $500.A high quality breeding male with numerous good quality progeny on the ground has a very high breeding potential and can be worth many thousands of dollars.  

Income is provided by breeding the females and selling the offspring.Female prices are a reflection of quality,age,breeding history and to which herdsire she is presently mated. Breeding plans should allow for the depreciation of the older females by increases in the quality and value of the offspring. Female alpacas can be worth anywhere from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.