Our lives with alpacas began in 1995, when Kathy met and fell in love with her first alpaca at Marty McGee’s TTEAM training clinic for llamas. Soon afterward, “Miss Midnight Madness”, a striking black female with soft, lustrous fiber, became our first alpaca and the matriarch of our growing herd.

Living on a small farm in Pennsylvania, we embarked on a new lifestyle of raising and breeding a core herd of exceptional alpacas.

From caring for such wonderful creatures, to the excitement of the showring, we managed a small and successful operation. Highly attuned to the health and well-being of the alpacas, Kathy took the next step, pursuing formal education and training as Certified Veterinarian Technician with an internship at the University of Pennsylvania’s small and large animal hospitals.

In the summer of 2003, we moved from Pennsylvania to Alaska and made the tough decision to not bring the alpacas to the bear-dense rainforest of Southeast Alaska.

Today, our alpacas are enjoying life on a few select farms across the country.

To find out the current location of breeding herdsires, or alpacas available for sale, contact BaggyWrinkle Alpacas using the methods and details described on the Contact page.

BaggyWrinkle Alpacas' Breeding Program

Our breeding program represents a masterful blend of superior alpaca bloodlines in a variety of colors that is best described as “balancing beauty and function.” What does this mean?

Beauty: We appreciate the beauty in a well-conformed alpaca with gorgeous fiber. Presence -– an alpaca’s proud stance and upright posture – is important to us. And of course, everyone at BaggyWrinkle Alpacas loves a beautiful face!

Even so, it takes more than a ribbon or a pretty face for an alpaca to earn a place in the breeding program.

Function: As beautiful as alpacas are, they are expected to do more than look pretty; they are expected to produce – both fiber and healthy babies. To do that reliably, an alpaca must be reproductively sound in birthing and breeding. We value the traits that make raising alpacas a joy. A herdsire that efficiently gets the females pregnant, a female who births and nurses her babies without assistance, producing healthy cria year after year - these are the truly valuable animals.

What's in a Name?
When hearing the name "baggywrinkle" for the first time, you may envision the wonderful whimsical creatures we love. It is whimsy and more. Years ago, sailors on the old square-rigged sailing ships often made baggywrinkle, protective gear made from frayed rope and used on ship rigging to prevent chafing. When meeting each other at sea, the sailors of these ships exchanged baggywrinkle as a gesture of goodwill and to show the other ship that they were "shipshape and squared away." A ship without baggywrinkle was a ship in trouble. Such details had grave consequences should a sail be lost due to chafing.

With alpacas, we take care of the details that mean success for the long voyage, ensuring our alpaca venture is "shipshape and squared away." Any sailor worth their salt knows the true value of baggywrinkle.

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