Welcome to SouthWest Alpacas
UK Alpaca Breeders

Playtime in the sun. Click on the image to see more cria at play !

Alpacas - The Sustainable Lifestyle Choice

Hello from Peter and Jacquie Watson, and welcome to South West Alpacas. We decided to farm alpacas when we moved to our 27-acre smallholding in Devon some years ago. We looked at more conventional livestock options, such as sheep and cattle, but saw a lot of problems compared with the apparent attractions of alpacas.

We have not been disappointed! Over the past few years, we have discovered how easy these gentle animals are to care for, how little impact they have on their environment, and what beautiful soft fleece they produce. We hope you enjoy your visit to our site, where we are happy to share with you our experience of raising alpacas with high welfare and low environmental impact as our two most important objectives. (Click here to read article for more information).

Our goal is to produce perfect alpacas & alpaca studs, with the finest fleece - and in all of the beautiful colours that make the alpaca so special.We have been lucky enough to gain access to some of the world’s best alpaca genetics, so the fibre quality of our herd is continuing to improve rapidly. We are currently working on ways to process and market this wonderful fibre economically – the next big challenge!

Please do feel free to contact us directly if you would like to find out more about buying alpacas, or breeding and caring for alpacas as a sustainable alternative to conventional farming methods.

Alpaca Girls for Sale - click here for more details

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Starting Out with Alpacas

- an article for beginners

"If only we knew then what we know now!"

We bought our first alpacas nearly a decade ago. International Camelid Quarterly asked us to write an introductory article on setting up and managing a small herd for breeders just starting out.

Just click on the picture to the right to find out more . . . .

Here Jacquie is ensuring that the information in this article is completely accurate and up to date by conducting field interviews with our team of experts at South West Alpacas.

Click on image above
for more information

NEW! Knitting Kits

- Baby Alpaca Scarves -

You can buy these wonderfully soft, beautifully fashionable scarves in kit form from our Isles of Avalon web site -

Also available ready-made, hand knitted by us in case you can't wait and want to be pampered right away . . .

Admittedly, not much to do with Alpacas - but we all need a holiday sometime!

To find out more about our new Villa on the Aegean Coast of Turkey near Uzumlu, just click the link