Located in the Heart of Alpaca Country, ALPACAS of Tualatin Valley (ATV) had its beginning in 1988 on 11 acres of secluded property. In 2003, we expanded onto 45 acres of prime farmland where we are located just ten minutes from our famous neighbors, Intel and one mile from The Reserve Golf Course! Comfortable accommodations, fine dining and easy shopping are also within a few minutes drive.
We maintain a herd of approximately 150 North American alpacas producing superior offspring from some of the best genetics in the Nation. We specialize in fawns, reds, browns and black in our Suri and black and gray in our Huacaya.
What are we about?
Our emphasis is on good health, excellent conformation and top quality fiber producing animals with post sales support surpassed by none. Equally important is our desire to serve the alpaca industry with integrity as we look forward to an extensive and productive future.
What do we offer?
ALPACAS of Tualatin Valley, LLC provides offspring from Champion lineage! Proven SURI studs currently are Pacific Pride and Hershey's Hugo, both from well known and coveted lineage whose babies are remarkable. If you are looking for full Accoyo, we have a fine fleeced Baron Lafite son, Accoyo Tourbillion, whose offspring began arriving Spring 2010. We are proud to offer perfect conformation as well as uniformly locked and fine fiber with high luster on all our Suri studs and their offspring.
How about HUACAYA? Are you looking for silver-gray?
You can choose offspring from ATV Silver Elation whose cria that began arriving in Spring 2010 are exceptional with their beautiful silver fleeces or Casanova’s Silver Strike who is producing very fine and dense fleeces in a variety of shades of gray. Silver Peruvian Master Piece recently joined our Steller Stud™ line up so we are looking forward to his first cria at ATV which will begin hitting the ground in May 2011. Platino of ATV carries the same awesome fleece gene as Silver Elation and will begin his breeding program in the Spring of 2011.
Lona is a retired accountant and aviator who traded in her suits, high heels and helicopter for jeans, tennis shoes and alpacas. She has a deep love of these wonderful creatures and it shows in her management. She has developed an outstanding nutrition program with the assistance of renowned nutritionists, and works tirelessly with distinguished veterinarians to maintain the health and well being of her herd. She has strived to build one of the finest and most diverse small herds in the nation.
John is a retired electronics engineer and manufacturer of solid-state equipment. After 40 corporate years, John finds great satisfaction in designing equipment at his leisure for use with the alpacas. His first nationally recognized invention was the UltraVac designed to ease Lona's workload in pasture maintenance. It quickly caught on and sold country wide. John also developed The Frank Fountain, a heated and easy to clean automatic water system and continues to come up with new and innovative ideas.
